Immigration Hard-Line Backfiring With Some Employers

The Trump administration’s increased immigration enforcement could be making some employers less willing to comply with the law.

“It’s putting employers back into a mindset that we saw 10 years ago,” Ian Macdonald of Greenberg Traurig in Atlanta told Bloomberg Law. They’re starting to think it’s “not worth it” to enroll in E-Verify or keep photocopies of employees’ original identification and work authorization documents, he said.

Employers are thinking that if they’re going to be audited and fined anyway, they might as well just do the “bare minimum” to comply, Macdonald said May 30.

The agriculture industry in particular has ...