The Bush administration will suspend its legal defense of a new rule issued in August to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants, conceding a hard-fought opening round in a court battle over a central measure in its strategy to curb illegal according to government papers filed late Friday in federal court.
Instead, the administration plans to revise the rule to try to meet concerns raised by a federal judge and issue it again by late March, hoping to pass court scrutiny on the second try. The rule would have forced employers to fire workers within 90 days if their Social Security information could not be verified. ...
The rule laid out procedures for employers to follow after receiving a notice from the, known as a no-match letter, advising that an employee’s identity information did not match the agency’s records. The employer would have had to fire an employee who could not provide verifiable information within 90 days, or face the risk of prosecution for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. Those immigrants often present fake Social Security numbers when applying for jobs.
Nov 26, 2007
No Match Rules Development: What Does It Mean?
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Illegal aliens should be deported, not supported.
Ride that hobby horse, cowboy.
You just have to shake your head that one knucklehead judge (Clinton appointee) can single handedly stop the government from enforcing our immigration laws because something MIGHT happen.
The perfect the enemy of the good.
Finally a judge with a brain.
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Ariz. Immigration Law Challenge Tossed
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PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking to block a new Arizona law that prohibits people from hiring illegal immigrants and requires businesses to verify whether applicants are eligible for employment.
The law takes effect Jan. 1.
In his ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake wrote that the lawsuit was premature because there was no evidence that anybody had been harmed, and that the plaintiffs - a coalition of business and immigrant rights groups - were suing the wrong people.
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