DHS Quietly Promotes Employer Program
"Over the past seven months, Bush administration officials have quietly
toured the country, trying to persuade businesses that rely heavily on immigrant labor to join a little-known program that would spare them from embarrassing federal raids if they voluntarily handed over their workers' documents so the government can scan them for fraudulent information," the Washington Post reports. "Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have asked companies to join the ICE Mutual Agreement Between Government and Employers program, known as IMAGE, operated by the department's Immigrations and Customs Enforcement division. It calls on businesses to submit all I-9 employee eligibility verification forms to ICE for an audit and to 'ensure the accuracy of their wage reporting' by verifying workers' Social Security numbers, according to a description of the program."
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