According to a recent report, the Obama administration plans to
increase the amount of audits conducted of employers’ I-9 records and
information. According to John Morton, chief of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), the Employment Compliance Inspection Center will
conduct audits of all sizes of employers, even large employers with
large amounts of employees.
In the year that ended September 30, 2010, ICE had conducted audits of
over 2,700 companies. This was double the amount of audits as conducted
the previous year. Seven million dollars in fines were given to
companies that hired and employed ineligible aliens.
