Federal immigration agents to end practice of worksite raids

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FILE - In this May 25, 2021, record photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks with the media extracurricular of the Little Haiti Cultural Center successful Miami. Federal migration agents volition halt making wide worksite apprehension of immigrants employees suspected of surviving successful the U.S. without ineligible permission. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued guidance Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, saying the bureau would cease specified targeted enforcement which has "not focused connected the astir pernicious facet of our country's unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers." (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Posted at 5:42 PM, Oct 12, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-12 18:44:05-04

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal migration agents volition halt making wide worksite apprehension of immigrants employees suspected of surviving successful the U.S. without ineligible permission.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued guidance Tuesday saying the bureau would cease specified targeted enforcement which has “not focused connected the astir pernicious facet of our country’s unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers.”

Instead, Mayorkas wants migration agencies to absorption connected going aft employers who prosecute workers without due authorization by expanding penalties and coordinating with different agencies, including the Department of Labor.

Mass raids were communal nether erstwhile President Donald Trump, including a 2019 cognition targeting 7 Mississippi chickenhearted processing plants.

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