Federal Judge Blocks New Employer Sanctions
"A federal judge barred the Bush administration yesterday from
launching a planned crackdown on U.S. companies that employ illegal immigrants, warning of its potentially 'staggering' impact on law-abiding workers and companies. In a firm rebuke of the White House, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction against the president's plan to press employers to fire as many as 8.7 million workers with suspect Social Security numbers, starting this fall," the Washington Post reports. "The case also called attention to the gulf between Washington rhetoric about the need to curtail illegal immigration and the economic reality that many U.S. employers rely on illegal labor, as well as to the government's inability for nearly three decades to develop adequate tools for identifying undocumented workers."
Read the full story