On March 16, 2020, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) sent a letter to the Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security seeking guidance regarding employer I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification requirements during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency.
In the letter, AILA requested guidance regarding “Form I-9 verification and reverification, E-Verify and compliance
More than 5,200 businesses around the country have been served with I-9 inspection notices since January in a two-phase nationwide operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in what appears to be the largest I-9 inspection action ICE
Asplundh Tree Expert Co., one of the largest privately owned corporations in the country, with 30,000 employees and 3.5 billion in annual sales, according to Forbes, has been ordered to pay $95 million in the largest fine against a company for hiring thousands of immigrants who did not have permission to work in the U.S.,
Jeremey Foster writes:
In a recent case, a Washington state apple orchard was fined millions of dollars for failing an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) audit. The audit apparently revealed that almost 950 employees of the company were suspected of not being authorized to work in the United States. The Employment Eligibility Verification forms (Form