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Okay, first off, THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE A POLITICAL POST!! It is NOT meant to be a discussion about illegal immigrants; it is just a question regarding what the LAW says, or may end up saying. It is based on a question that occured to me from reading the following, which was posted at another forum I attend.
I highlighted in italics the part that grabbed my attention.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/busines...stories/MYSA.050708.1D.hendricks.3287f84.html
David Hendricks: U.S. immigration raids are about to get ugly
Web Posted: 05/06/2008 09:20 PM CDT
Letters listing millions of Social Security “no-match†workers are ready to mail to employers.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency personnel are trained and ready. Buses and vans are standing by for raids. Detention facilities have expanded.
All that is lacking is clearance from the courts.
Employers should be prepared in the coming months for immigration raids on scales never before staged by the federal government. The stakes for employers will be especially high if the courts give a green light to the mailing of Social Security no-match letters.
ICE already has stepped up its worksite enforcement program in recent years, even without the new kind of no- match letters that were held up by a court injunction last fall.
Social Security will not provide ICE with a list of employers receiving the possible new round of no-match letters. The letters would establish new grounds to nail employers with criminal charges.
Austin lawyers Kevin Lashus and Robert Loughran compare the federal government's preparations for increased worksite enforcement to an army practicing for battle.
“The government expects a massive disruption of the work force,†Loughran said. “A climate of fear is the strategy of this administration.â€
Employers receiving the new no-match letters would have 93 days to resolve discrepancies, said Lashus and Loughran of Tindall & Foster's Austin office.
Employers could find themselves trapped by federal laws that on the one hand prohibit unauthorized workers and, on the other hand, ban discrimination. Employers cannot look beyond the employees' documents. If they do, they face federal discrimination lawsuits. If employers have not followed steps listed in the no-match letters or are determined to knowingly employ unauthorized workers, they will face criminal charges.
Lashus, a former ICE official, has been involved in some of the agency's previous workplace raids. Loughran is a longtime specialist in employer sanctions law.
Whereas ICE has routinely conducted about 10 raids a month, the lawyers expect the pace to rise significantly once the Social Security Administration mails the letters. ICE could strike workplaces 20 to 30 at a time in any given city. The agency would pause to process the cases, then begin new rounds of raids, Lashus said.
Homeland Security wanted to implement its plan last fall, but a U.S. district judge blocked Social Security's no-match letters after labor unions and other organizations contended the plan would disrupt companies and harm innocent workers.
Social Security's own inspector general already estimates that about 17.8 million of 435 million records contain errors that could generate a no-match letter. An estimated 70 percent of the erroneous records belong to U.S. citizens.
Homeland Security appealed the judge's decision but in March proposed to go ahead on its plan. Any day now, the Arizona judge must decide whether to lift the injunction or make it permanent.
If the injunction becomes permanent, Social Security will hold the letters while Homeland Security again appeals. If the injunction is lifted, the no-match letters could be mailed within days.
“The government is deadly serious about these cases,†Loughran said. “The difference is that the federal government is eager to enforce the laws now, whereas they couldn't be bothered 15 years ago.â€
Especially vulnerable would be businesses 10 to 15 years old that haven't strictly monitored their new employees' documentation. “They have no understanding where the lines are,†Loughran said.
The damage would go beyond that. A sudden explosion of enforcement could victimize legal workers, either directly or indirectly. Businesses would close, throwing innocent workers out of work amid a weak economy. Families would be torn apart.
It could end up being an ugly chapter in American history.
So the part that grabbed my attention was the paragraph saying that if this happens, employers trying to obey the law either way could get into trouble, if you try to actively avoid hiring illegals, you can face discrimination charges, however, if you don't do this and thus do accidentally hire an illegal, you can also get into big trouble.
I was wondering if any of the business owners on here had knowledge about this or what to do? Like how to avoid hiring illegals without getting charged with discrimination?
I am especially interested because as I've said, I intend to move to Arizona, Nevada, Texas, or North Carolina, all states that are known to have lots of illegals.
Remember, this isn't about discussing illegals themselves, it's just with how to comply with what the law says.
I highlighted in italics the part that grabbed my attention.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/busines...stories/MYSA.050708.1D.hendricks.3287f84.html
David Hendricks: U.S. immigration raids are about to get ugly
Web Posted: 05/06/2008 09:20 PM CDT
Letters listing millions of Social Security “no-match†workers are ready to mail to employers.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency personnel are trained and ready. Buses and vans are standing by for raids. Detention facilities have expanded.
All that is lacking is clearance from the courts.
Employers should be prepared in the coming months for immigration raids on scales never before staged by the federal government. The stakes for employers will be especially high if the courts give a green light to the mailing of Social Security no-match letters.
ICE already has stepped up its worksite enforcement program in recent years, even without the new kind of no- match letters that were held up by a court injunction last fall.
Social Security will not provide ICE with a list of employers receiving the possible new round of no-match letters. The letters would establish new grounds to nail employers with criminal charges.
Austin lawyers Kevin Lashus and Robert Loughran compare the federal government's preparations for increased worksite enforcement to an army practicing for battle.
“The government expects a massive disruption of the work force,†Loughran said. “A climate of fear is the strategy of this administration.â€
Employers receiving the new no-match letters would have 93 days to resolve discrepancies, said Lashus and Loughran of Tindall & Foster's Austin office.
Employers could find themselves trapped by federal laws that on the one hand prohibit unauthorized workers and, on the other hand, ban discrimination. Employers cannot look beyond the employees' documents. If they do, they face federal discrimination lawsuits. If employers have not followed steps listed in the no-match letters or are determined to knowingly employ unauthorized workers, they will face criminal charges.
Lashus, a former ICE official, has been involved in some of the agency's previous workplace raids. Loughran is a longtime specialist in employer sanctions law.
Whereas ICE has routinely conducted about 10 raids a month, the lawyers expect the pace to rise significantly once the Social Security Administration mails the letters. ICE could strike workplaces 20 to 30 at a time in any given city. The agency would pause to process the cases, then begin new rounds of raids, Lashus said.
Homeland Security wanted to implement its plan last fall, but a U.S. district judge blocked Social Security's no-match letters after labor unions and other organizations contended the plan would disrupt companies and harm innocent workers.
Social Security's own inspector general already estimates that about 17.8 million of 435 million records contain errors that could generate a no-match letter. An estimated 70 percent of the erroneous records belong to U.S. citizens.
Homeland Security appealed the judge's decision but in March proposed to go ahead on its plan. Any day now, the Arizona judge must decide whether to lift the injunction or make it permanent.
If the injunction becomes permanent, Social Security will hold the letters while Homeland Security again appeals. If the injunction is lifted, the no-match letters could be mailed within days.
“The government is deadly serious about these cases,†Loughran said. “The difference is that the federal government is eager to enforce the laws now, whereas they couldn't be bothered 15 years ago.â€
Especially vulnerable would be businesses 10 to 15 years old that haven't strictly monitored their new employees' documentation. “They have no understanding where the lines are,†Loughran said.
The damage would go beyond that. A sudden explosion of enforcement could victimize legal workers, either directly or indirectly. Businesses would close, throwing innocent workers out of work amid a weak economy. Families would be torn apart.
It could end up being an ugly chapter in American history.
So the part that grabbed my attention was the paragraph saying that if this happens, employers trying to obey the law either way could get into trouble, if you try to actively avoid hiring illegals, you can face discrimination charges, however, if you don't do this and thus do accidentally hire an illegal, you can also get into big trouble.
I was wondering if any of the business owners on here had knowledge about this or what to do? Like how to avoid hiring illegals without getting charged with discrimination?
I am especially interested because as I've said, I intend to move to Arizona, Nevada, Texas, or North Carolina, all states that are known to have lots of illegals.
Remember, this isn't about discussing illegals themselves, it's just with how to comply with what the law says.
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