With a few action steps, you can de-ICE your company! You may think you don’t have to worry about ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but neither did a lot of other employers, just like you.
ICE really meant it when they said they are focusing on worksite enforcement through I-9 audits, and not just by the well publicized mass efforts you may have read about in the news last year or this past spring.
Now, all it takes is an unhappy employee to make a complaint to the US Department of Labor or Justice, or an employee or ex-employee to run into trouble with Immigration and bargain a deal to turn on you – to trigger an I-9 audit. And they use FORENSIC AUDITORS.
So how do you defend yourself in advance? ICE will recognize and give credence to an established, written procedure for processing I-9s. Just e-mail me for suggestions on such procedures.
Have a safe and ICE-free month,
