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pampango

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19. Be happy to. There is plenty more where these came from just don't tell the GOP.
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 03:37 PM
Aug 2015

They have a meme to stick to.

Cracking down harder on illegal immigrants (auditing "illegal employers&quot

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/118301014.html

Nobody has been fired from ROC Commercial Cleaning in Oakdale -- at least not yet. Since they got word that federal immigration officials are poring over the company's employment records, some janitors have simply quit.

His company is one of at least nine businesses across the Twin Cities undergoing a so-called immigration audit, part of the Obama administration's national crackdown on employers using undocumented workers. At least 2,000 people in the Twin Cities have lost their jobs in the last 18 months as a result of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) finding that they couldn't prove their eligibility to work in the United States.

The results of ICE's audits offer a warning to businesses, especially those using low-skill workers:

•The number of audits jumped more than 50 percent last year to about 2,200 from 1,444 in 2009.

Criminal arrests of employers have jumped 45 percent since 2008. Of the 196 employers arrested last year, 42 have been sent to prison so far, with sentences ranging from time served to 3 1/2 years. Many cases are pending.

A local union is calling the firings an attack on the immigrant community. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 26 in St. Paul, which represents about 5,000 local janitors and maintenance staff, is holding a vigil Sunday at Incarnation Church in south Minneapolis.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x723424

Obama holds record for cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers

Under Bush, workplace raids on factories and meatpacking plants received much attention. But after Obama took office, the Department of Homeland Security unveiled a new strategy and ditched the workplace raids, which also tended to punish employees, in favor of "paper raids" -- I-9 paperwork audits of employers to determine if they complied with employment eligibility verification laws.

The change was dramatic: the number of I-9 audits soared from 503 in 2008 to more than 8,000 in 2009.

Under Obama, ICE announced sanctions against major employers. That included a $1 million fine against Abercrombie and Fitch that grew out of an I-9 inspection and the termination of hundreds of workers at Chipotle restaurants.

In 2007, ICE arrested 92 employers, while in 2012 it arrested 240, according to ICE. Final orders -- rulings at the end of the case which show employers violated hiring rules -- also increased under Obama. In 2007, there were two final orders, while in 2012 there were 495.

Obama shifted away from Bush’s strategy of workplace raids and turned the focus on employers. Between 2008 and 2009, immigration audits soared from 503 to more than 8,000.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2013/jul/03/debbie-wasserman-schultz/obama-holds-record-cracking-down-employers-who-hir/

Last but not least here is the White House's own page on "Cracking Down on Employers Hiring Undocumented Workers"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/strengthening-enforcement

U.S. deportations of immigrants reach record high in 2013



http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/u-s-deportations-of-immigrants-reach-record-high-in-2013/
Here's the thing, if people like Trump would stop employing people who do Not have the correct fasttense Aug 2015 #1
So why isn't Obama's DoJ prosecuting him? dumbcat Aug 2015 #2
Like the anti monopoly laws on the books that have been ignored by the executive branch fasttense Aug 2015 #3
Yes, I know, but dumbcat Aug 2015 #4
welcome to DU CreekDog Aug 2015 #7
Why, thank you, but dumbcat Aug 2015 #8
In a way our party has been bought off too fasttense Aug 2015 #10
Obama has 'opened' no borders. Illegal immigration is a net of zero and has been for several years. pampango Aug 2015 #11
I never said he opened the borders fasttense Aug 2015 #15
But still, dumbcat Aug 2015 #12
Do you really believe that is ignoring the law or are you just repeating "what you've heard"? pampango Aug 2015 #13
If there has been such enforcement, and employers jailed or heavily fined dumbcat Aug 2015 #17
Be happy to. There is plenty more where these came from just don't tell the GOP. pampango Aug 2015 #19
Thank you very much dumbcat Aug 2015 #20
You are giving the RepubliCONS a pass fasttense Aug 2015 #14
I am in no position to give anyone a pass dumbcat Aug 2015 #16
"Do you think that if someone once ignored the law then everyone and anyone is entitled to do so?" pampango Aug 2015 #18
This is some KGB-level shit here, Maynard jmowreader Aug 2015 #5
yes, yes, yes, yup, you betcha, yeah CreekDog Aug 2015 #6
Option #3 zappaman Aug 2015 #9
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