Alejandro Pérez is a partner at Pierson Ferdinand and board president of the ACLU of Arizona. In 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement audits are showing up with teeth, and employers, ...

Immigration officials used an I-9 audit to arrest 20 people this week in the Houston area. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 requires employers to verify the identity and work eligibility ...

Question: I’ve read in the news about the increased focus on immigration. I run a medium sized business and am worried about an I-9 audit. Can you remind me of my general obligations for I-9s? Answer: ...

Federal immigration authorities may be gradually boosting their enforcement activities, but the slow pace has not changed employers’ need for caution, employer-side immigration lawyers told HR Dive. I ...

The federal government has had the ability to audit employers since the act passed in 1986, though they rarely conducted audits until recently. However, beginning in 2009, ICE issued a memorandum ...

There has been a dramatic increase in I-9 and E-Verify discrimination claims following implementation of a new worksite enforcement strategy by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE's ...

Enforcement! Ask any immigration lawyer or foreign national the first word they think of when someone says “Trump,” nine times out of ten it will be “enforcement.” We are at the dawn of a new era of ...

In today’s 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle, people are regularly seeing newsfeeds about ICE. ICE is short for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is under the direction of ...