DHS Secretary Napolitano on Her

Employment Enforcement Policy

DHS Secretary Napolitano on Her Employer Enforcement Policy - "In my view, we have to do workplace enforcement and it needs to be focused on employers who intentionally and knowingly exploit the illegal labor market. That impacts American workers, has an impact on wage levels and often has an impact on the workers themselves. Our ICE efforts should be focused on those kinds of things. We should have thought through prosecutions that are going to result and deportations that result from any workplace action. That is the direction we seek to move."

-- From February 25, 2009 Testimony at House Homeland Security Committee hearing “DHS: The Path Forward” in response to questions about Bellingham, Washington raid of Yamato Engine Specialists resulting in 28 arrests. She has ordered an investigation. This is the first worksite raid conducted during the Obama Administration.

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