ICE conducted about 1,300 of these workplace audits in 2017, reports CBS News' Mireya Villarreal. This year, they expect a 300 percent increase. Companies found employing undocumented workers could face civil fines or ev ...
Daily Archives: February 16, 2018
Immigrant rights activists block Homeland Security van from accessing Metropolitan Detention Center
Video footage showed dozens of people standing in the street, in front of a marked van, chanting, "Drive out ICE!" and "Stop the deportations!" Some held signs. ...
ICE steps up enforcement at businesses in California, targeting employers and workers
In the lobby, a nervous office manager greeted the team from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations, twisting a black pen in her hands like a wet towel. A second manager joined them. ...
Here’s how DACA changed the lives of young immigrants, according to research
Congress this week failed to come up with a solution to protect undocumented people who have been shielded from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program is now set to end on March ...
What the Senate’s failure on immigration means for the future of DACA
The date March 5 looms over the immigration debate. ...
Trump’s immigration policy in brief: Total racist shutdown
In December 2016, I profiled a group called the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) that I believed would become a big driver of Donald Trump's immigration policies. There were extensive links between Trump ...
Actually, Owning an Immigrant Is Bad
On Tuesday, writing in Politico magazine, Eric Posner, a University of Chicago law professor, and Glen Weyl, a researcher at Microsoft, reimagined the U.S. immigration system. Instead of corporations and families sponsor ...
Inside the Senate’s ugly immigration breakdown
A conservative senator from Oklahoma with a youthful visage, Lankford had been working since September to help so-called Dreamers. The 49-year-old Lankford dutifully attended bipartisan meetings, cobbling together ideas ...
Trump to Dreamers: Get Out
What can Democrats do? They are the minority party, and they can’t force Trump to change his policy, as I’ve argued before — frustrating as that may be. They also shouldn’t give into his demands for radical immigration c ...
The Daily 202: Immigration failure shows the ideologues are ascendant in the Trump White House
But Trump moved the goal posts, demanded dramatic reductions in legal immigration and then mobilized to kill a bipartisan compromise that would have given him much of what — until very recently — he said he wanted. ...
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