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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf recently alerted the city that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents soon would be conducting workplace raids and now she is being investigated to see she broke any laws by issuing the warning. “It is Oakland’s legal right to be a…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted workplace raids on 77 businesses in San Francisco, Sacramento and San Jose in February and in early January, nearly 100 7-Eleven stores were targeted in the largest immigration enforcement operation conducted…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently reported that, between Jan. 29 and Jan. 31, 77 Northern California businesses were raised. Taking place in the San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento areas, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents…
Rep. Lamar Smith reintroduced the Legal Workforce Act, H.R. 3711, a bill that would require all employers to use E-Verify within two years. Smith believes that by expanding the E-Verify system, jobs will only go to legal workers. The Legal Workforce Act repeals the…
Employer DLS Precision Fab was appealing a $305,050 penalty for more than 500 immigration law violations when they attempted to argue that it had made a good-faith effort to comply with the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by hiring a well-credentialed HR…
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a revised version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, which will become mandatory on Sept. 18 and will replace all prior editions. The new form includes the name change of the…
In an effort to counter the expected increase in immigration-related workplace raids, the state Assembly has approved a bill that would require California employers to ask federal immigration agents for a warrant before allowing them access to the workplace. An…
Although I-9 regulations permit employers to electronically generate, sign and store the Form I-9, these rules were drafted in broad terms and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not published any guidance on what may or may not be considered a valid…
Ashley Kaplan, Senior Employment Law Attorney at ComplyRight, recently shared some tips for companies who wish to ensure they are compliant with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Any company could be subject to a surprise audit, but those in sanctuary city or…
Amended regulations of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement describe the legal obligations of an employer under current immigration law when the employer received a no-match letter from the Social Security Administration or receives a letter regarding…