donderdag 26 november 2009

Immigration officials to audit 1,000 more companies

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to audit 1,000 companies because they want to know if there are illegal immigrants have been hired. It happens frequently that companies want to make dishonest profit and using illegal immigrants is the only way to make this profit because they aren’t registered, they receive a low salary and they won’t protest because they have fear to be dismissed.

This audit is a two-pronged strategy. They want to tackle the companies hardly which recruit illegal immigrants. They reward also the companies which try to be honestly and use legal workers.
The government ask the American people to cooperate with the strategy. They want to introduce a label on the products of companies which doesn’t hire illegal immigrants, so that customers know they don’t buy products of dishonest companies. The strategy contains also a administrative obligation, if a company accept an employee, the employee has to fill in a special form to check whether the person is in order to recruit.
This is a strategy of president Obama. First he wants to examine the identity forms if there are irregularities. And if irregularities are found, the companies may then be fined for lax monitoring.

In the first audit there were 654 companies had been examined and 267 companies have to pay a penalty. But the consequence of this audit is that there are many discharges for example in a garment factory in downtown Los Angeles. After a federal audit turned up irregularities in identity documents of the workers. The consequence: about 1,800 immigrant employees are fired, that’s more than a quarter of its work force.

I think it’s a good idea to reward honest companies and to punish dishonest companies. Obama also use a very good strategy: to audit the firms and do no raids at the workplace which can avoid trauma’s and deportation. But if they do this audit there are also many illegal immigrants who will be fired like in the last example of the garment factory. I find it very terrible for those people who are dismissed. Maybe the government has to look first at the problem that there are many illegal immigrants. The government has to solve this problem first before auditing the companies.

Read the article.

1 opmerking:

  1. I can understand the government wants to avoid people work illegal and I agree it's a good strategie to reward companies who recruit employes in a legal way and to punish companies who are using an illegal way.

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