While hundreds of illegal immigrants are being swept-up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in sanctuary cities across the nation, the Department of Justice is litigating against business owners who wittingly employ immigrants whose legal status to work in the United States counters Immigration and Nationality codes, citing discriminatory practices.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICE agents spanned the United States this week to effectuate “Operation ‘Safe City'” which resulted in close to 500 arrests of illegal immigrants. An ICE press release indicated a recent four-day sweep in various sanctuary cities across the nation culminated in fulfilling the initiatives set forth in President Trump’s immigration enforcement outline.
ICE efforts employed its “Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Fugitive Operations teams” which tallied the arrests of “498 individuals from 42 countries for federal immigration violations in multiple cities across the U.S. during a four-day operation that ended Wednesday.
ICE arrests over 450 on federal immigration charges during Operation ‘Safe City’ https://t.co/WLmdrcimzq‘safe-city’ pic.twitter.com/t8wNtd457s
— ICE (@ICEgov) September 29, 2017
“Operation ‘Safe City’ focused on cities and regions where ICE deportation officers are denied access to jails and prisons to interview suspected immigration violators or jurisdictions where ICE detainers are not honored.” Despite some jurisdictions continuing to play hard-ball with ICE and DoJ regarding immigration enforcement, ICE circumvented sanctuary city nonsense and reeled-in quite a catch, needing no help from hold-out sanctuary city governments.
“Sanctuary jurisdictions that do not honor detainers or allow us access to jails and prisons are shielding criminal aliens from immigration enforcement and creating a magnet for illegal immigration. As a result, ICE is forced to dedicate more resources to conduct at-large arrests in these communities,” explained ICE Acting Director Tom Homan.
ICE targeted only known criminal aliens with substantiated charges and gang members listed among police intelligence officer resources.
Department of Justice
DoJ filed lawsuit against Crop Production Services, Inc. on September 28, 2017 alleging the company is discriminating against Americans by only hiring foreigners, a direct violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
“In the spirit of President Trump’s Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American, the Department of Justice will not tolerate employers who discriminate against U.S. workers because of a desire to hire temporary foreign visa holders.”
As part of the DoJ’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative, Justice officials “aimed at targeting, investigating, and bringing enforcement actions against companies that discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of foreign visa workers,” according to its press release.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions alleges Crop Production Services blatantly denied all American workers and even hardened the hiring process to include drug screening and background investigations whereas it sought virtually nothing from foreign workers holding H-2A visas.
“The complaint also alleges that Crop Production refused to consider a limited-English proficient U.S. citizen for employment but hired H-2A workers who could not speak English. Ultimately, all of Crop Production’s 15 available seasonal technician jobs in 2016 went to H-2A workers instead of U.S. workers,” the DoJ press release conveyed.
Per Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “In the spirit of President Trump’s Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American, the Department of Justice will not tolerate employers who discriminate against U.S. workers because of a desire to hire temporary foreign visa holders.” Considering these are a mere few activities to clean up our country and optimize national security, battle drums continue to beat…rest assured.
