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Employment of Illegal Alliens to be Lowered by New Federal Program

26th March, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Federal authorities have adopted a new immigration program whose main aim is to restrict to the minimum the hiring of illegal immigrants. Another goal of the program is locate such immigrants. Employers who help for the prevention of hiring illegal immigrants and provide the authorities with information on their location will benefit from the program by receiving a clean bill of health by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In response to the increasing number of cases filed against employers who hired illegal workers the program intends to stop this practice. At first glance the actions seemed extreme but then were they not justified? Among those actions we can note cases against violating employers some of which result with a jail sentence. A wave of indignation was triggered among the law abiding employers so the government officials were forced to issue a decree which guaranteed fair treatment to those employers. This immigration regulation states that in order to be considered clean hirers companies must first prove they do not hire alien workers. The companies that want to be granted the right to hire must first meet some certain criteria – an obligatory prerequisite is to sent the immigration authorities the employees’ records. Obviously, Legal Translation of these records will be necessary as these workers lived outside of the USA prior to their employment. The Basic Pilot Employment Verification database will use the received employees’ records to issue a written validation or rejection of their authenticity. In order to be able to ascertain the authenticity of a green card and verify the employees’ records the company staff will have to receive proper training that will be offered by the immigration officers. Continue reading Read More