Are you highly educated and foreign-born? Then get lost
September 10, 2008
How America is slamming the door on the world’s best and brightest
Buried beneath screaming headlines denouncing “illegal” blue collar workers from Mexico, news reports touting the virtues of building a southern border fence, and editorials trumpeting harsh work-site raids to round-up and deport “illegal” workers, there is a little-noticed alarm that is warning of […]
Immigration violators could lose biz licenses
June 27, 2008
Virginia businesses face a new law that could strip away their corporate existence for repeated violations of federal immigration law.
The 2008 General Assembly passed legislation – now signed by the governor – that authorizes the State Corporation Commission to terminate a corporation’s existence if the corporation is convicted under federal law for “a pattern or […]
‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you’
June 27, 2008
What you need to know about recent changes to the I-9 form
If you are one of the many managers responsible for administering the I-9 Employment Verification System in your workplace, then you know, like we all know, that the system is terribly broken. The evidence is clear: in 1986 the I-9 System was instituted to […]
Immigration prosecutions at a record high
June 17, 2008
Immigration prosecutions on a federal level have increased to record levels, boosted in part by a rise in minor charges being pressed against every person caught crossing the United States-Mexico border, according to a report by the Washington Post.
In January and February of 2008 alone, there were 7,250 new immigration prosecutions by the Department of […]
I-9 Forms matter now, more than ever
May 14, 2008
It’s election season, and immigration is on the short list of any candidate who wants to be taken seriously on a national basis.
The proposed programs may vary, but all of them have one thing in common: penalizing the employers who hire undocumented workers. That’s something that shows up even on a state level, with a […]
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