Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already doubled its work-site investigations just seven months into the current fiscal year.
Between Oct. 1, 2017, and May 4, 2018, ICE opened 3,510 investigations of employer compliance with immigration law. That’s up from 1,716 investigations for all of FY 2017, the agency said May 14. ICE also has launched 2,282 audits of employers’ I-9 employment verification forms, compared with 1,360 last fiscal year, it said.
The ramp up comes after a November announcement by ICE acting Director Thomas Homan that the agency planned to quadruple or quintuple work-site enforcement from its levels at the ...
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