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ICE worksite enforcement on rise

The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) set new records for worksite enforcement activity in FY 2006.

     ICE arrested 716 individuals on criminal charges, against both employers and employees, in worksite enforcement investigations, up from 176 in FY 2005. The agency also arrested 3,667 individuals on administrative charges this year.

     Combined, these figures are more than seven times greater than in 2002, the last full year of operations for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

     ICE warns it will “continue to target those employers who willfully violate the law and who build businesses upon a model of behavior that assumes they will hire large numbers of illegal immigrants to fill jobs in this country.”

     For more on ICE enforcement statistics, go to http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1162228690102.shtm