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According to 2012 estimates, there are some 8.1 million unauthorized workers in the U.S. civilian labor force.\nDHS\u2019s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for immigration-related worksite enforcement, or enforcement of the prohibitions on unauthorized employment in Section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The INA Section 274A provisions, sometimes referred to as employer sanctions, make it unlawful for an employer to knowingly hire, recruit or refer for a fee, or continue to employ an alien who is not authorized to be so employed. Today, ICE\u2019s worksite enforcement program is focused primarily on cases that involve critical infrastructure facilities and cases involving employers who commit \u201cegregious\u201d violations of criminal statutes and engage in worker exploitation.\nEmployers who violate INA prohibitions on the unlawful employment of aliens may be subject to civil monetary penalties and/or criminal penalties. Criminal investigations may result in defendants being charged with crimes beyond unlawful employment and being subject to the relevant penalties for those violations.\nVarious measures are available to examine the performance of ICE\u2019s worksite enforcement program. They include Final Orders for civil monetary penalties, administrative fines, administrative arrests, criminal arrests, criminal indictments, criminal convictions, and criminal fines and forfeitures. In addition to examining annual changes and trends in the various performance measure data, these data can be considered in relation to the estimated size of the unauthorized workforce or the potential number of employers employing these workers. When considered in this context, ICE\u2019s worksite enforcement program can seem quite limited.\nEnforcement activity by the Department of Labor (DOL) is also relevant to a discussion of federal efforts to curtail unauthorized employment. DOL, which is responsible for enforcing minimum wage, overtime pay, and related requirements, focuses a significant percentage of its enforcement resources on low-wage industries that employ large numbers of immigrant\u2014and presumably large numbers of unauthorized\u2014workers.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R40002", "sha1": "62de24f36ddb389289544d2f5b452d2249040e24", "filename": "files/20150623_R40002_62de24f36ddb389289544d2f5b452d2249040e24.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R40002", "sha1": "9a80640f1855cc02e83b31db2e6fb70a91cbd10f", "filename": "files/20150623_R40002_9a80640f1855cc02e83b31db2e6fb70a91cbd10f.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc227631/", "id": "R40002_2013Aug07", "date": "2013-08-07", "retrieved": "2013-11-05T18:07:05", "title": "Immigration-Related Worksite Enforcement: Performance Measures", "summary": "This report discusses the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) responsibilities in regard to immigration-related worksite enforcement, or enforcement of the prohibitions on unauthorized employment in Section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The INA \u00a7274A provisions, sometimes referred to as employer sanctions, make it unlawful for an employer to knowingly hire, recruit or refer for a fee, or continue to employ an alien who is not authorized to be so employed. 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According to 2008 estimates, there are some 8.3 million unauthorized workers in the U.S. civilian labor force. 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These operations represent the public face of efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to curtail the employment of unauthorized immigrants. According to 2006 estimates, there are some 7.8 million unauthorized workers in the U.S. civilian workforce. 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