Company officials are targeted in fight against illegal hiring

“The federal government has been lax about work site enforcement of immigration laws, according to government reports. But officials in the field say they’re making a record number of arrests.

Immigration officials dedicated only 4 percent of their time to workplace enforcement from 1997 to 2003, according to the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan research arm of Congress. A Government Accountability Office report released in June shows that workplace enforcement continued to be a “low priority” when Immigration and Customs Enforcement was formed in 2003.”

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