June 2006: Illegal Hiring Is Rarely Penalized – IF YOU LIKED GEORGE W. BUSH ON HIS ABILITY OBEY ORDERS FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON ILLEGAL IMMIIGRATION, YOU WOULD LOVE RICK PERRY!
A Cowboy from Texas in charge of stopping illegal immigration…what could go wrong. RIGHT?
Washington Post
June 2006
Illegal Hiring Is Rarely Penalized
Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which subsequently was merged into the Homeland Security Department. The number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003, and fines collected declined from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics.