Recent news on immigration legislation

Feds Take Hard Line on Immigrant Hiring
On March 26, the Department of Homeland Security reissued a rule that would force companies to either resolve within 90 days discrepancies between a worker’s name and Social Security number or fire the employee. It would effectively make so-called “no-match” letters evidence of the illegal hiring.

Office of Special Counsel's Antidiscrimination Guidance for Employers Following the DHS Safe-Harbor Procedures
The Department of Homeland Security’s Safe-Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter offers employers who receive no-match letters from the Social Security Administration a safe-harbor in a related immigration enforcement action if those employers follow the series of steps set forth in the no-match rule to ensure that the information provided by affected employees to confirm their work eligibility is genuine.

Illegal Immigration Is A Facility Management Issue
With reform a hot political topic, changes could significantly redefine the workforce.

Kansas Immigration Bills
With the House and Senate passing different immigration bills, the focus moves to what their negotiators will draft as a final version, and some say they'll be combining measures weakened to satisfy the business community.

Measure provides incentives for firms to use E-Verify
Arizona companies that don't check the legal status of new workers would lose access to government contracts and special economic incentives under the terms of proposed legislation approved Tuesday by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Kansas Immigration bill passes House
Among other things, the measure increases penalties for using false documents to gain illegal employment and creates the crime of helping an illegal immigrant to vote. It also creates criminal penalties for businesses that illegally treat workers as independent subcontractors.

ID checks may be forced
Businesses across South Carolina would have to check new hires through a federal work-eligibility database under some versions of the state's planned crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Department of Homeland Security’s No-Match Program Shifts Burden ...
It’s estimated that 800,000 employers could receive notices; representing a fundamental shift in how businesses are forced to handle the issue of illegal workers. The No-Match program is an enormous step in increased workplace raids looking for undocumented workers.

Immigration reform turns into a minefield for lawmakers
Immigrants break the law if they are here illegally. Businesses that exploit their cheap labor break the law. The law should be enforced.

Five IFCO managers indicted on federal charges
A grand jury has returned a six-count felony indictment against five current managers of the Pallet Management Division of IFCO Systems North America (IFCO). The indictment charges the managers with engaging in a conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, to encourage and induce, and to transport illegal aliens.