I thought businesses could be prosecuted by the feds if they hired illegals. Will Eric Holder sue?
In Illinois, you could be prosecuted for hiring illegal aliens. But at the same time, it was (I closed my business a couple years ago), illegal to NOT accept any form of ID from them.
It was also illegal to do a background check for the sole purpose of identifying one’s immigration status.
But, if you were caught having hired illegals by ICE, you were screwed with hefty fines.
The only way around this is to rent people from temp agencies. Then they take on the burden. You pay $20 an hour for a temp, the temp gets $8.