ICE Chills the Summer with Thousands of Audit Notices Issued to Businesses Nationwide

Seyfarth Synopsis: The temperature may be heating up in the nation’s capital, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is keeping things cool. Government insiders indicate that agents have been busy serving thousands of Notices of Inspection (NOI) across the country, initiating Form I-9 audits for companies of all shapes and sizes. With the current enforcement climate, there may even be a resurgence of pre-dawn enforcement actions – otherwise known as “raids” – to surprise both workers and their employers. Companies should expect penalties to climb sky high, with recent reports of multi-million dollar fines, especially for non-compliant electronic I-9 systems — that’s right, something that has nothing to do with unlawful workers.

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