Feds Crack Down on Undocumented Workers
Posted by segacor on April 22, 2008
Yesterday’s Houston Chronicle reports illegal immigration raids will increase in 2008.
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Kevin Lachus, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney, expects worksite investigations and immigration raids to increase significantly across the U.S. and especially in Houston.
As a government attorney, Lachus was involved in sweeping raids on the Swift & Company packing plants in 2006.
He and others say stepped-up worksite enforcement raids are part of a Department of Homeland Security strategy to force a revival of last year’s failed effort to reform the nation’s immigration laws. The idea is that disruptions caused by raids would unite business interests and immigration hard-liners to convince legislators to reconsider immigration reform.
Lachus, a lawyer with the Tindall & Foster immigration law firm in Houston, expects 150 raids across the country this year, up from 48 last year.
