Posted on 07/21/2025 2:06:21 AM PDT by RandFan
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons said in an interview that aired Sunday that his agency will crack down on American companies hiring unauthorized workers.
“Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we’re focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these laborers,” Lyons said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
“These people that came here for a better life. You know, either, you know, forced labor, child trafficking, you know, a lot of these work site cases — just isn’t a victimless crime of someone here working illegally,” he added. “And that’s why we’re going there with these criminal warrants to focus on these American businesses that are trying to make an extra dollar on the backs of these people that came here for a better life.”
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SMART businesses that employ illegals will be the early ones that NOW start seeking out available legal employees to hire and train.
Of, course, cracking down on employers of illegals should have be the first thing to be done on day one.
We are now 6 months on and none of these prime offenders has been held accountable, let alone perp walked to make an example.
Useless Bondi is once again sleeping at the desk.
Why not implement E-Verify nationally ?
E-verify is a joke. It doesn’t require proof of citizenship. That’s a system that has been watered down and is in need of an overhaul.
More:
Employees do NOT need to prove their citizenship, immigration status, or national origin when establishing their employment authorization for Form I-9 or E-Verify. Requesting such proof or any specific document from employees based on their citizenship, immigration status, or national origin, may be illegal.
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-9instr.pdf
We had to send a couple HR people from our corp. headquarters to the plant to help with the hiring of new employees.
Some businesses, particularly in sectors that have historically relied on undocumented labor even before the Biden surge, asked Trump to let up on deportations, expressing concern about potential labor shortages and increased costs if undocumented workers are deported. Examples of such industries include:
Agriculture
Construction
Hospitality (hotels and restaurants)
Meatpacking plants
Cleaning services
Home healthcare/personal care
Some industry associations, such as the Agricultural Coalition for Immigration Reform and the American Hotel & Lodging Association, advocate for immigration reform that could provide a stable workforce, including paths to legal status for existing undocumented workers.
GREAT!
Mad story. Scale of this could be frightening then./
E-Verify isn't meant to require proof of citizenship.
Rather it verifies, or is meant to, based on information provided on the I-9, whether the newly hired employee is legally authorized to work in the United States.
We just had a new hire who had been working for us via a temp agency that is contractually bound to, among other things like performing background checks and drug testing, adhere to E-Verify.
But when we hired him, his E-Verify came back as a mismatch (Tentative Nonconfirmation (TNC))-meaning the employee's information doesn't match government records so we have to follow a specific process to stay compliant. Here's how it unfolds.
Notify the employee privately: Share the Further Action Notice (FAN) and explain the mismatch.
Review and sign the FAN together: Ensure the employee understands the issue and signs the notice.
Ask if they want to contest: The employee has 10 federal working days to decide.
If they contest, the employer refers the case in E-Verify and provides a Referral Date Confirmation.
If they don't contest, the employer may proceed with termination, as the employee is not considered work-authorized.
Just because he says “you know” a lot doesn’t mean you have to put those words repeatedly in the quotation.
We hired an older man (early 60’s) who had exactly the machining experience and skills we were looking for. The only reason he needed a job was that the company he’d been working at for over 40’s shut down.
And way back when he started working for that company, I-9’s and E-verify wasn’t a thing.
But when we hired him, he had to complete an I-9 and provide the required documentation.
He had a valid PA driver's license that established identity, but he did not have any documents from List C that verifies Work Authorization. He had lost his SS card years ago and never had a copy of his birth certificate.
And of course he didn’t have a US passport. This guy was born and grew up in Lancaster County and with the exception of an a 2-day trip to Niagara Falls when he got married 40+ years ago, had never traveled more than 30 miles from his home.
I worked with him on how to go to the closest SSA office and get a duplicate SSA card and also how to obtain a copy of his birth certificate – instructions, addresses, phone numbers, maps. I talked to his supervisor and our HR VP and got him authorized to take a day off with pay (an advance on his PTO) so he could go to the SSA office.
He came back the next day with a document from SSA saying his SSA card was in process and that met the I-9 requirement that allowed him to keep working until he could provide his SSA card.
Rounding up the seriously criminal ones was a good start, but THIS is what will really address the problem.
And it'll be good to have some high profile liberal white folks arrested, just on GP.
Going after people who hire illegals as their household "help" in Malibu would be a good photo op.
Unless they work for the government. We require proof of citizenship
Right now, they have a workforce subsidized by food stamps, Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, etc., etc.
If they can't afford that, it means capital has been misallocated into services and should be redeployed into manufacturing and resource extraction like it used to be.
If some illegal alien gets hired using a stolen identity and someone else’s Social Security number, there’s almost nothing the employer can do without running afoul of U.S. civil rights laws.
That is not what it says.
There are 3 lists of acceptable documents on the I-9.
List A are documents that establish both identity and work authorization such as a US passport, or permeant residency card, among others.
List B establishes identity only such as a valid driver's license with photo ID, voter registration card, etc.
And list C establishes work authorization only such as a SS card, original or certified birth certificate, US citizen ID card, etc.
What the hiring employer cannot do is specify which document they will accept as long as it is one of the acceptable documents listed on the I-9.
In other words, I have a valid unexpired US passport, the employer can’t say I’m not going to accept that and you have to provide you SSA card, birth certificate and driver's license in order to complete your I-9.
BOUT TIME!
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