Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category
Ski Industry Worries that Anti-Immigrant Bills Would Hurt Business
February 11th, 2011 by Aaron Hall
Posted in: Arizona, Immigration, State Law
Colorado’s ski industry stands to suffer if the state enacts Arizona-style anti-immigrant bills. Colorado Ski Country, U.S.A., Inc., an association representing 22 Colorado ski resorts, said in a recent report that Mexico and Brazil have become two of the leading countries from which skiers come to the state.
According to an article from Fox News Latino, [...]
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Justice Department Settles with Hoover Inc. for Unfair I-9 Practices
November 15th, 2010 by Koby Polaski
Posted in: E-Verify, Employer Compliance, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Uncategorized
The United States Department of Justice announced last week that it reached a settlement agreement with Hoover Inc., the well-known manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, over allegations that Hoover imposed illegal obstacles in the I-9 process upon its lawful permanent resident employees.
According to the Department of Justice’s report, Hoover required all permanent residents to produce a new [...]
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USCIS Implements Fee Increase for H-1B and L-1 Visas
October 19th, 2010 by Aaron Hall
Posted in: H-1B, Immigration, USCIS
A United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) press release confirms the immediately effective increase in fees for certain H-1B and L-1 visas in accordance with Public Law 111-230. Additional fees of $2,000.00 and $2,250.00 for H-1B and L-1 visas respectively are now required for petitioning companies of 50 or more employees that have over [...]
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Immigrants, Environment, and Enlightenment
October 16th, 2010 by Amber Blasingame
Posted in: Immigration
As the election draws near, political candidates and their supporters work frantically to sway American voters with the hot topics de jour: the economy, health care, environmental concerns, immigration, etc. A recent popular combination of hot topics matches immigration issues against environmental concerns: If you are for immigration reform then you are against the environment, [...]
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Lower Immigration Numbers Hurting Housing Market
October 14th, 2010 by Aaron Hall
Posted in: Immigration
Lower rates of immigration to the United States are a major contributing factor to the sluggish housing market. The troubles of the housing market have long been blamed on excess inventory, but Fortune reports that a a drop in immigration has demonstrably hurt demand. According to the Fortune article, households headed by those foreign born [...]
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26 Business Owners Engaged in Unauthorized Worker Ring
October 8th, 2010 by Koby Polaski
Posted in: Employer Compliance, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Uncategorized
Twenty-six New York City business owners have been indicted for their involvement in a criminal scheme that smuggled Chinese immigrants into the U.S. to work at restaurants and other establishments.
According to yesterday’s indictments, six of the defendants smuggled immigrants form China to the United States from April through October. Eighteen of the defendants allegedly harbored undocumented [...]
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DHS Focus on Enforcement of Employers of Undocumented Workers Continues
September 24th, 2010 by Aaron Hall
Posted in: Employer Compliance, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The Department of Homeland Security seems to be making good on its promise to seek out and prosecute employers who employ undocumented workers.
On September 14, 2010, ICE arrested a manager of a personnel agency in Bell, California based on the allegation that he had hired unlawful workers and then provided them with counterfeit documents.
Yesterday, ICE arrested [...]
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Colin Powell Urges Path to Legal Status for Undocumented Workers
September 20th, 2010 by Koby Polaski
Posted in: Dream Act, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Uncategorized
In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Former Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed his opinion regarding many immigration-related issues. Powell focused his interview, however, on the benefits provided by undocumented immigrants, economic and otherwise.
Powell recognized immigrants as the force moving the United States forward, and specifically credited them as performing essential work in the [...]
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Indictment Alleges Abuse of H2-A Guest Worker Program
September 10th, 2010 by Megan Healy
Posted in: Immigration
Earlier this month in Honolulu, Hawaii, the U.S. Justice Department indicted six executives of the company Global Horizons Manpower for engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and document servitude. The contractors are accused of abusing the H2-A guest worker program in 2004 and 2005. The H2-A program allows agricultural employers who anticipate a [...]
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Restauranteur Looking at Stiff Fines and Jail Time
September 9th, 2010 by Aaron Hall
Posted in: Employer Compliance, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The importance of business owners’ strict compliance with immigration laws in their hiring practices is driven home with the The New York Times report on the owner of a french restaurant in San Diego who was indicted for hiring 12 undocumented immigrants. The owner of the restaurant now faces up to 30 years in prison and almost $4 [...]
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