More Raids on Illegal Hirings Expected

“If carried out on a large scale, the federal government’s plan to intensify crackdowns on businesses that hire illegal immigrants could land an especially hard blow on Arizona, the state with the largest estimated percentage of illegal workers in its economy.

Immigration agents said Thursday that the stepped-up examinations of construction, agricultural, landscaping and service-industry businesses are aimed at deterring employers from turning to illegal hirings and lessening the economic incentive for immigrants to sneak across the border.”

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