Trump’s crackdown focuses on people in the U.S. illegally – but not on the businesses that hire them

The following article by Cindy Carcamo was posted on the L.A. Times website March 20, 2017:

Nearly 20 years ago, Mark Reed, then a top boss for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, sent agents into Nebraska to crack down on meatpackers hiring immigrants who were in the country illegally.

Agents pored over records to ferret out forged documents or fake Social Security numbers, and thousands of workers, fearful of being caught without papers, fled the state.

Reed thought the effort, Operation Vanguard, could become a national model to shut down a magnet for illegal immigration, and he said as much to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) during a congressional hearing on immigration while Vanguard was underway. Continue reading “Trump’s crackdown focuses on people in the U.S. illegally – but not on the businesses that hire them”