Businesses to be inspected for hiring immigrants
Thirty-nine businesses in the San Diego and Imperial county areas are to undergo an official inspection of their employment records by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as reported by the agency.
The agency declared Wednesday that it was going to send notifications to 652 businesses nationwide informing them that their I-9 forms, on which employees’ identity documents are recorded, will be looked at in detail. Agency officials report that the various businesses were picked for inspection based off of leads and other investigative lee-ways.
The audits are part of a new are part of a new plan of action that seeks to move the focus from workplace immigration enforcement regarding employees to the those who are responsible for hiring the unlicensed workers, with federal agents pursuing more criminal cases against employers.
ICE officials would not state which businesses exactly that are to be examined.
