Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are continuing the business of cracking down on undocumented immigrant workers and the employers that hire them. The latest targets of federal immigration audits are businesses in the Los Angeles area.
The Los Angeles Times reports that after a five-day operation that ended Thursday, ICE issued audit notices to more than 120 businesses.
The audits are said to have dual purposes: ICE wants to punish employers and employees who are breaking immigration rules, as well as discourage others from entering the country unlawfully.
ICE spokeswoman Dani Bennett told the Times: “It’s a deterrent to somebody who is thinking about crossing the border, paying a smuggler and taking that perilous journey. If there isn’t that pull factor or perceived easy employment on the other side, there isn’t that incentive to cross in the first place.”
The Trump administration “has vowed to crack down hard on illegal immigration,” the Times states, as well as on states like California that provide sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
In October, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the sanctuary state bill into law, after which acting ICE Director Thomas Hoffman warned that California “better hold on tight.”
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