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I know what you're thinking."Jose is a slacker and hasn't been keeping up with his blog."Actually, half of that is correct: I have NOT been doing a good job on updating Immigration Insider as I SHOULD be, but not because I've been slacking. The truth is that the ...
Jose E. Latour Jun 08, 2008
Workplace Enforcement’s Silent Victims
Lynn Woolsey Chairwoman of the "Workforce Protection Subcommittee Committee on House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections" [I am not making that up...if it's a typo, that's what was there and I cut and pasted the title] testified before Congress on May 20, 20...
Jose E. Latour May 23, 2008
Imprisonment of Employer VP Leaves Fishing Industry Reeling*
(*I humbly apologize to my readers for this appalling headline but it proved irresistible and I may never have an opportunity for it again.)[Readers, take note: I’ve been telling you for about five years that the threat of jail time against I-9 violating company officials would become a primar...
Jose E. Latour May 06, 2008
Nik Steinberg wrote a heck of an editorial in The Christian Science Monitor and the sheer logic of it should have the feds blushing. Here's a few choice excerpts..."Imagine living in a state where local cops can stop anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally, and arrest them i...
Jose E. Latour Apr 28, 2008
Deputizing Employers: ICE’s New Angle
I've been pondering the quagmire in which ICE's enforcement actions placed Pilgrim's Pride recently. Imagine this scenario:You are a corporate compliance manager/counsel/etc. and the phone rings. A person claiming to be from ICE advises you that your company is going to be subjected to a...
Jose E. Latour Apr 23, 2008
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
In the midst of the current chaos caused by the Feds and their "no holds barred" enforcement efforts, one has to wonder if anyone in Washington is aware that they have effectively placed U.S. employers in a irreconcilable Catch-22, one which has the potential to disrupt our economy far bey...
Jose E. Latour Apr 21, 2008
A New I-9 in Your Christmas Stocking
With their characteristic sense of humor, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) merrily announced a Christmas present for U.S. employers: based up the rule issued late last month in the Federal Register, employers will be required to use the new Employment Eligibility Verification Form I...
Jose E. Latour Dec 04, 2007
Workforce Compliance: Outside Counsel vs. Outside SOLUTION
Counsel to Counsel magazine ran an interesting article in its October 2007 issue entitled "Choosing the Right Outside Counsel" The article is a helpful analysis of what GCs should look for when reaching outside of their own corporate resources for the solution of a legal matter.The a...
Jose E. Latour Nov 01, 2007
2007 in Enforcement: Business in the Bullseye
Back on August 9th, ICE -- U.S. Customs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- released a five page memo euphamistacally entitled "Protecting National Security and Upholding Public Safety". The memo, signed off by Asst. Secretary of Homeland Security Julie L. Myers, attempts to s...
Jose E. Latour Oct 22, 2007
Why, oh why, am I always right? Like some latter day Nosferatu infused with the wisdom of the immigration elders, I've been calling this whole "Attack on U.S. Employers" deal for about four years...and once again my voice calling in the regulatory wilderness proves prophetic.The call came ...
Jose E. Latour Oct 17, 2007
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