President Barack Obama’s recent State of the Union address envisioned immigration reform as a key to U.S. competitiveness, urging changes that would attract the highly skilled and regularize the status of talented young people brought into the United States illegally as children.
With less fanfare, however, his administration has been pursuing aggressive enforcement policies that impose significant burdens on employers. The administration’s aim to hold employers accountable for their part in illegal immigration has resulted in more than twice the number of worksite enforcement investigations conducted in FY 2010 as were conducted by the previous administration in FY 2008, as well as millions of dollars in fines assessed against businesses that employ undocumented workers or do not otherwise comply with immigration laws, including simple paperwork violations.
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