ICE Ramps Up Work-Site Efforts, Changes Nature of Enforcement

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made good on an earlier promise to ramp up work-site enforcement, closing out fiscal year 2018 with a four-fold increase in work-site inspections and audits and more than seven times the number of arrests.

ICE in FY 2018 launched 6,848 work-site investigations and 5,981 audits of businesses’ employment verification forms, known as I-9s. The prior fiscal year, there were 1,691 work-site investigations and 1,360 I-9 audits.

But it wasn’t just the numbers that changed in fiscal 2018. The nature of the agency’s work-site enforcement efforts shifted from the Obama administration’s focus on employer paperwork violations ...