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652 businesses nationwide being served with audit notices today
WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is launching a bold, new audit initiative today by issuing Notices of Inspection (NOIs) to 652 businesses nationwide - which is more than ICE issued throughout all of last fiscal year. The notices alert business owners that ICE will be inspecting their hiring records to determine whether or not they are complying with employment eligibility verification laws and regulations. .......... see story

Federal Contractor Rule Delayed
June 11, 2009. Federal contractors and subcontractors will be required to begin using the E-Verify system starting September 8, 2009, to verify their employees’ eligibility to legally work in the United States. In a final rule published in the Federal Register, the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council amended the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to reflect this change. The new rule implements Executive Order 12989, as amended by President George W. Bush on June 6, 2008, directing federal agencies to require that federal contractors agree to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their employees. The amended Executive Order reinforces the policy that the federal government supports a legal workforce. This new rule requires federal contractors to agree, through language inserted into their federal contracts, to use E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all new hires during a contract term, and to confirm the employment eligibility of federal contractors’ current employees who perform contract services for the federal government within the United States. Once the FAR becomes the Rule for Federal Contracts, you will have 30 days to comply. This will not be sufficient time to build E-Verify into the business processes of your organization. CONTACT i9DIRECT TODAY FOR YOUR TOTAL I-9 COMPLIANCE SOLUTION 866-825-4122 .......... see story

Nebraska Law Mandates Contractors and Public Employers Use E-Verify
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman has signed into law a bill (LB 403) that will require public employers and contractors to register with and use the federal government's E-Verify program to determine the employment eligibility of new hires. The law will go into effect October 1, 2009. Public contractors are defined as "any contractor or his or her subcontractor who is awarded a contract by a public employer for the physical performance of services within the State of Nebraska." The law also requires Nebraska's public employers to verify the legal status of all applicants trying to collect public benefits, directing the public employer not to provide benefits to a persons illegally present in the United States.. While the bill does not require private employers to use E-Verify, the bill creates tax incentives for entities that use E-Verify. .......... see story

DHS Shifting Focus of Workplace Enforcement to Employers
April 30, 2009. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday that it is shifting the department's immigration enforcement efforts to the employers that hire undocumented workers. The announcement is an abrupt departure from the Bush Administration's focus on detaining illegal workers to better target what senior DHS officials deemed “the root causes of illegal immigration”. DHS will provide ICE agents today with new instructions to target employers and supervisors for prosecution through carefully planned criminal investigations. The guidelines call on agents to seek civil penalties, including fines and disbarment from federal contracts, in cases where they do not have enough evidence to press criminal charges. .......... see story

Revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification
April 3, 2009. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a reminder that the revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification (Rev. 02/02/09), goes into effect today for all U.S. employers. The revision date is printed on the lower right-hand corner of the form. The interim final rule, published Dec.17, 2008 in the Federal Register, revised the list of documents acceptable for the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9) process. Employers may no longer use previous versions of the Form I-9. The revised list improves the security and effectiveness of the Form I-9 process. The list specifies that expired documents are no longer acceptable forms of identification or employment authorization. Allowing for expired documents makes it more difficult for employers to verify an employee’s identity and employment authorization and compromises the Form I-9 process. .......... see story

Mississippi E-Verify Law takes affect
AN ACT TO CREATE THE MISSISSIPPI EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT; TO PROVIDE PROCEDURES FOR NEWLY HIRED EMPLOYEES AND THEIR EMPLOYERS; TO ENACT DEFINITIONS; TO REQUIRE EMPLOYEE VERIFICATION; TO PROVIDE EMPLOYER LIABILITY; TO SET UP EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE PROGRAMS; TO MAKE PROVISIONS FOR THIRD-PARTY EMPLOYERS; TO DEFER TO FEDERAL LAW IN STATE LAW; TO ENACT EXEMPTIONS; TO DESIGNATE ENFORCEMENT DUTIES UNDER THE ACT; TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS ACT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. .......... see story

Breaking News: NEW RULE, FEDERAL CONTRACTORS MUST USE E-VERIFY
On Friday, November 14, the Bush Administration issued a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to require contractors to verify the legal status of their workers starting January 15, 2009, in order to do business with the federal government. Published in the Federal Register, the rule requires contractors that win a federal contract of more than $100,000--- and subcontractors with contracts of greater than $3,000--- must use E-Verify, the federally designated electronic verification system, within 30 days of the contract award. Contractors will have to check the eligibility of all new hires and existing employees assigned to the contract. Under the system, new hire information from I-9 forms is electronically compared with the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security databases . The final rule gives contractors the option to verify their entire workforce, which going forward will negate the need to track and manage those existing employees that have not been verified and later assigned on contracts. .......... see story

ICE arrests 32 in operation targeting illegal workers at Puget Sound-area aerospace manufacturer
ARLINGTON, Wash. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents executed a federal civil search warrant this morning at an aircraft manufacturing plant here, arresting 32 of the company's workers on administrative immigration violations. The search warrant was executed at Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. (AMT), a leading supplier of frame and interior parts for commercial and military aircraft. AMT provides many of the parts used in some of aviation's most popular airplanes, including the Boeing 737 and Boeing 777. Today's operation is part of ICE's worksite enforcement effort focusing on critical infrastructure and security sensitive sites. AMT is registered with the U.S. Department of State's Director of Defense Trade Controls, which oversees the export and import of certain products that can be used for national defense purposes. The unauthorized workers included foreign nationals from two countries - Mexico (30) and El Salvador (2). The group includes 16 men and 16 women. .......... see story

DHS Designates E-Verify as Employment Eligibility Verification System for All Federal Contractors
President George W. Bush has amended Executive Order 12989 in order to direct all federal departments and agencies to require contractors, as a condition of each future federal contract, to agree to use an electronic employment eligibility verification system – designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security – to verify the employment eligibility of all persons hired during the contract term and all persons performing work within the United States on the federal contract. .......... see story

The cost of hiring 126 illegal aliens: $6.8 million.
A family owned commercial fishing business in Virginia and two of its owners paid $6.8 million in fines and forfeitures after pleading guilty to hiring 126 illegal aliens to work on their boats. .......... see story

U.S. to raise fines on employers of illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said Friday that it plans to significantly raise fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, part of a broader effort that includes improved border security after Congress failed to pass immigration-related legislation in 2007. .......... see story

Fake Documents Operation Shut Down in Del.
WILMINGTON, Del.- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Tuesday the arrest of a Mexican national on federal charges that he was producing and misusing immigration documents. Pedro Altatenco-Luna had his initial appearance in federal court for the District of Delaware and was ordered held in custody. Altatenco-Luna has been charged by the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware with producing identification documents and fraud and misuse of immigration documents. .......... see story

Illegal-immigrant push adds landlords
PHOENIX — A House panel approved legislation Wednesday night designed to hit illegal immigrants where they live — literally. The Appropriations Committee voted 10-6 to make it illegal for landlords to rent to those who do not present certain documents showing they have the right to be in the United States. Violators could be fined up to $250 a day. HB 2625 now goes to the full House. .......... see story

U.S. catching illegals in record numbers
The Department of Homeland Security, continuing to enforce what it calls a "strict policy of arresting, prosecuting and jailing" illegal immigrants, deported a record number of those caught on the nation's borders last year — more than 280,000 in fiscal year 2007 compared to 186,000 a year earlier. .......... see story

A fast-growing illegal influx from India
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The nation's fastest-growing group of illegal immigrants is not one that would readily come to mind. Turning stereotypes on their head, a recent federal analysis of unauthorized immigration says the most rapidly growing source of illegal immigration is India - the same country whose engineers and programmers help power Silicon Valley companies such as Google, whose doctors heal the sick, and whose entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have become a force on both sides of the international date line. .......... see story

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