Home of suspected fraud
During the last seven months, Bush administration officials have turned quiet the country and try to convince businesses to a large extent on the work of immigrants in a little-known program, the wheel would be embarrassing federal raids when they passed voluntarily to their employees, “said the documents, the government can scan the information fraudulently.
Officials of the Department of Homeland Security, companies ICE, by common accord between the government and employers in the program, also known as the image, operated by the immigration service and the Authority Customs Enforcement Division. It calls on businesses to do whatever I-9 employees review the eligibility forms on the ice for an audit and “guarantee the veracity of their reports wage” by workers at verifying the numbers’ Social Insurance, after a description of the program.
A spokesman said ICE-image is a further step in the management of an hour by car to strengthen the work on the ground implementation, given that more than one million illegal immigrants on the border Mexico each year in search of jobs.
“The increased risks for those who … participation is better equipped than whether their workforce is legal, and ICE is less likely that in his house unexpectedly, which conduct their business,” said Matthew Allen, deputy assistant director in office for infrastructure and fraud within the Agency investigations Division. “It’s an investment to ensure that their staff is safe.”
Efforts by the government IMAGE are much broader and deeper than in another program, Basic Pilot, in which companies registered voluntarily. Companies that have in part in Basic Pilot, social insurance numbers, that the candidate against a national database of Social Security and immigration records.
In contrast, IMAGE covers all members of a society of labor and a vast jungle records to determine whether a worker in the country illegally or with false documents.
Allen would not name the firms in recruitment IMAGE, saying only that dozens have taken measures relating to the registration.
A store, Smithfield Packing Co., which manages the largest slaughter of pigs, Tar Heel, NC, since June, with spectacular results. Twenty-one worker in the event of the installation were arrested last week after examining the forms of government, by the company.
Smithfield ICE alerted by e-mail of discrepancies in the registration of workers. A spokesman said the company in the factory of 541 employees of the workforce is of 5000 against dismissal because of disagreements about their candidacies. Nearly half of Smithfield labour law is Latino Pool.
“It’s terrible for all of us workers, their families,” said Dennis Pittman, a spokesman for the company. “It is Losreissen heart. They are our best people. These are people who have been with us seven, eight, nine years. They are good people. People were in tears. Fifty people or arrested.
The name of Smithfield Pittman’s agreement with ice, “a business decision” following an implicit threat. “We knew raids, a possibility,” he said. “We were of the opinion that this way of walking, there would be less impact.”
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