Departing ICE Chief Leaving Legacy of More Work-Site Enforcement (1)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan appears to be making good on his promise to ramp up work-site enforcement even as he heads toward a June retirement.

Homan said last fall that he planned to increase immigration enforcement in the workplace to four or five times its existing levels. “I think that clearly is starting to take place,” Dallas immigration attorney Richard Gump told Bloomberg Law May 3. Homan announced his upcoming retirement on April 30.

Employers are starting to see the results of a new way the agency is applying its fine matrix to audits of I-9 ...