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August 2, 2007
Federal officials are planning a new crackdown on illegal immigrants that would force businesses to fire them or face stiff penalties.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Department of Homeland Security is expected to issue a rule outlining how businesses must respond when they receive notice that there are discrepancies in a worker's tax records.
Many businesses simply ignore such notices now, the Times says. Under the new rules, employees would have a limited time to contact the Social Security Administration to correct the information, or face termination.
The rule would transfer more responsibility for enforcement to companies - part of a Homeland Security effort to break through the complacency that some officials say the corporate world has about illegal workers.
The initiative follows warnings by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that his department would toughen enforcement if efforts to overhaul the flawed immigration system failed. The discrepancies detected in Social Security employment records can sometimes flag illegal workers on the job.
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