DHS Lets Employers That Hire Illegal Workers Off The Hook
March 04, 2014
Besides blowing off congress to give illegal immigrants backdoor amnesty, the Obama administration is also letting businesses that hire undocumented workers off the hook by drastically reducing fines and enforcement, a new federal audit reveals.It was only a year ago that the president vowed to come down hard those who hire illegal aliens as a fundamental part of creating an immigration system for the 21st century: “It means cracking down more forcefully on businesses that knowingly hire undocumented workers…most businesses want to do the right thing… So we need to implement a national system that allows businesses to quickly and accurately verify someone’s employment status. And if they still knowingly hire undocumented workers, then we need to ramp up the penalties,” Obama said in 2013.
The reality appears to be much different, though this particular audit, conducted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General, considers a three-year period right before the president’s statement. He was already in the White House, however. From 2009 to 2012, the administration slashed by 40% the amount of fines collected from employers caught with illegal aliens on the their payroll. This represents a chunk of change for the government—from $52.7 million to $31.2 million—but, more importantly, it sends a dangerous message to businesses that profit from the cheap labor provided by those living in the country illegally.
The DHS Inspector General states it quite clearly in a recently issued report: “Homeland Security Investigations’ inconsistent implementation of the administrative inspection process, plus the reduction of fines, may have hindered its mission to prevent or deter employers from violating immigration laws.” The DHS watchdog estimates that approximately 8 million illegal immigrants are in the U.S. workforce and many present fraudulent identity-related documents or use another person’s identity to gain employment.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is charged with cracking down on businesses that hire illegal aliens. During the three-year period analyzed in the probe, ICE got $531 million from congress to fulfill this “worksite enforcement” mission. Instead, the agency selectively enforces the employment law in different regions with some field offices doling out a lot more warnings and far less fines than others.
Making matters worse the umbrella agency, DHS, doesn’t provide sufficient oversight to ensure that its field offices are conducting worksite enforcement inspections consistently, according to the agency watchdog. For instance, investigators reveal that two field offices simply developed and implemented their own system by issuing more warnings than fines, contrary to established ICE guidelines. DHS took no action, the report says, pointing out that “without adequate oversight and monitoring” the agency can’t possibly determine if worksite enforcement is effective in preventing and deterring employers from violating immigration laws.
As an example, the inspector general offers ICE’s Los Angeles field office which has flouted federal policy by creating its own private system of worksite enforcement. During the three-year period considered by the watchdog the office conducted 147 investigations, with 7% resulting in fines and 55% in warnings. Even in instances where more than half of a business’s federal employee verification forms (known as I-9) had “substantive errors” the federal agents in L.A. only issued warnings instead of fines. One business mentioned in the report had its fine slashed an astounding 78%, from $4.9 million to a little over $1 million.
This certainly proves that the Obama administration lied to the American people in 2009 when it announced that DHS would focus on employers who hire unauthorized workers rather than large-scale enforcement actions that almost exclusively targeted illegal aliens under the George W. Bush administration. “Too many employers game the system by hiring undocumented workers,” according to President Obama’s immigration initiative for the 21st century. It doesn’t appear that he plans to do anything about it.
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THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA CONSULATE IN RUBIO MIAMI
Obama Administration
Makes Secret Deal With Mexico
Obama Administration Makes Secret Deal With Mexico - Mexican Consulates are headquarters for the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA with the agenda of expanding the Mexican welfares state with cooperation of Barack Obama and the Democrat party.
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/obamas-la-raza-mexican-economy-for-wall.html
THIS IS SHOCKING!!! ONLY IN AMERICA???
To Help Illegal Immigrants In The Workplace AND LOOT AMERICA EASIER!
The danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues, is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent group of working poor.
DURING OBAMA’S FIRST TERM
2/3s OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL. FEDERAL WORKPLACE
ENFORCEMENT of LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT of ILLEGALS PLUMMETED 70% DURING
HISPANDERING OBAMA’S FIRST TERM… and are expected to be nonexistent during his
second.
Obama and Justice
Sotomayor (A LA RAZA PARTY MEMBER) Vow to Illegals to SABOTAGE E-verify!
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
EMPLOYERS SAY NO TO HIRING AMERICANS… THE COST OF
OBAMACARE IS CHEAPER WHEN THEY HIRE MORE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY
NUMBERS!
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
AMNESTY….LA
RAZA IS PRINTING OUT FRAUD I.D.s BY THE MILLIONS.
"They hauled them down to the
border," Sakuma said. "Three days later, they were standing in our
office, but they had a different name and a different Social Security
number."
DEPORTATION –
MORE LA RAZA and OBAMA PROPAGANDA!
DEMS WORRIED ABOUT INEQUALITY???
THIS IS THE PARTY THAT HAS MARCHED MILLIONS OF MEXICANS
OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS.
OBAMA’S AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING ALREADY
COSTS US BILLIONS JUST IN CA ALONE!
NO PRESIDENT IN
HISTORY HAS SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS, LAWS AND VOTING TO BUILD THE DEMS’ LA RAZA
PARTY BASE OF LOOTING ILLEGALS!
MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA AS
OBAMA and the DEMOCRAT PARTY PUSH OUR BORDERS OPEN, SABOTAGE E-VERIFY, AND
PROMISE ILLEGALS NO ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT of ILLEGALS…
it’s all about buy the Mexican vote and keeping wages depressed for DEM POL
paymasters!
There are mounting warnings by economists that the US confronts
long-term economic stagnation and high unemployment into the indefinite
future….
"We could cut unemployment in half simply by
reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said
Representative Lamar Smith
OBAMA’S
AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING, DESTROY THE GOP WITH 40 MILLION NEW
DEMS, AND KEEP WAGES FOR GREATER PROFITS FOR THE PAYMASTERS OF CORRUPT DEMS’
HERITAGE FOUNDATION: OBAMA’S AMNESTY
WOULD ADD 100 MORE ILLEGALS AND COST AMERICANS (Legals) BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
the staggering cost of Mexico’s
looting:
MOUTH OBAMA HISPANDERING
PROPAGANDA:
Illegal Aliens Urged to Enter the Labor Force
Without Work Authorization
July 22, 2013 at 3:36 pm
Judicial Watch yesterday obtained, through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, documents showing that, as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Hilda Solis drew a press gaggle when she visited illegal aliens in Maryland last spring and urged them to assert their “federal rights.” Judicial Watch’s investigation was prompted a year ago by an article in Washington
Hispanic newspaper on June 1, 2012, which
quoted Solis as saying: “[Barack Obama] knows
very well that it is very important to preserve the
rights of the Hispanic community and of other
communities, in any area where they are working.
The federal laws are very clear and protect all
workers equally, whether or not they have
papers.” What follows are some highlights from the records released yesterday in response to Judicial Watch’s lawsuit of March 13, 2013:
- A similar sentiment was expressed in the agency’s internal newsletter of May 31, 2012 covering the event: “This administration . . . will not be satisfied until everyone that wants to work finds a job,” Solis said. “And that’s what our partnership with CASA de Maryland offers.” This edition of the DOL newsletter was routed to White House publicists Amy Brundage and Shannon Gilson by Labor Spokesman Carl Fillichio, who recently offended DOL staffers by emailing them a game called “Lent Madness,” which involved eliminating Episcopal saints in a Fantasy-Football style tournament.
- CASA, which stands for the Central American Solidarity Association, is a nonprofit founded in 1985 whose mission is to ensure that “all people – especially women, low-income people, and workers – can participate and fully benefit [in and from American society], regardless of their immigration status,” according to a May 29, 2012 memo to the Secretary preparing her for the visit. Another May 29, 2012 memo developed in preparation for the Secretary’s visit characterizes CASA as being “located in a shopping center” and “the site of the largest corner for day laborers.”
- Also included in the agency’s release is a July 14, 2011 Washington Post profile of CASA’s director Gustavo Torres. According to the article, “nearly half of CASA’s $6 million budget comes from local, state, and federal appropriations.” The article goes on to state that “CASA uses a significant portion of that money to help illegal immigrants.” DOL awarded the organization $187,000 in 2012 according to a May 31, 2012 email also included in the production, indicating that the agency was well aware of the way taxpayer funds were being spent.
UPDATE July 9, 2013:
The records obtained on July 9, 2013 by compulsion of the court show that CASA, which bills itself the “go-to” organization for illegal alien advocacy in that state, boasts an annual operating budget in excess of $5,000,000. Notwithstanding CASA’s apparent strength and size, DOL continues to conceal funding sources for the organization, arguing that disclosing how much taxpayer funding it receives each year could cause the day laborer training center “competitive harm.”
Also notable in the agency’s supplemental production is the fact that both U.S. Senators for Maryland Mikulski and Van Hollen appear to have lobbied DOL through a process called “lettermarking,” for CASA to win Susan Harwood Training Grant from DOL’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). Interestingly, though awarded $181,390 by OSHA, CASA offered none of the “intensive” safety training it promised in applying for the grant, concentrating its efforts instead on exceeding even its own goals in the delivery of labor rights training.
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