Federal judge, Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California today ordered an indefinite delay which could take many months on a central measure of the Bush administration’s new strategy to curb illegal immigration.
For the purpose, the government new rule aimed at getting employers to fire illegal employees whose Social Security numbers cannot be immediately verified.
Under the rule issued by the Bush administration
- Employers would be forced to fire workers within 90 days after receiving a notice from the Social Security Administion that an employee’s identity information did not match the agency’s records
The rule, announced by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, is supposed to
- Crack down on illegal immigration by denying jobs to the immigrants
- The rule is also part of a campaign to step up enforcement since broader immigration legislation favored by President Bush was rejected by Congress in June
Breyer main concern, if the law would be taken into effect
- The rule could lead to the firing of many thousands of legally authorized workers
- Resulting in “irreparable harm to innocent workers and employers”
Another concern would be the massive layoffs in low-wage industries, sweeping up both illegal and legal workers and disrupting the labor force.
Congress left Mr. Chertoff, a former federal judge with few other options, who’s was relying on the rule as an enforcement tool.
The decision also bars the Social Security Administration from sending out about
- 141,000 no-match letter
- covering more than eight million employees
- which include notices from Homeland Security explaining the new rule
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/washington/11cnd-nomatch.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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