Labor & Economic News Blog

Monday, June 19, 2006

Employers rarely fined for illegal hiring

Employers rarely fined for illegal hiring
Source: Washington Post
Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which subsequently was merged into the Homeland Security Department. The number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003, and fines collected declined from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics.

 



<< Blog Home

 

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?