Trump Administration Directs ICE to Enforce Employer Audit Quotas
(MENAFN) The Trump administration has intensified its crackdown on businesses suspected of employing undocumented immigrants, instructing immigration officials to fulfill specific audit targets to boost deportation operations, according to media reports released on Wednesday.
Citing immigration attorneys and a former Department of Homeland Security official, media reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has mandated all 30 of its regional field offices to hit quotas for inspecting companies' employee documentation to verify immigration status. These inspections, known as I-9 audits, have reportedly surged by a factor of ten since January.
Often serving as a prelude to workplace raids, these audits have become a central tool for detaining undocumented workers without judicial warrants. In many cases, undocumented employees fail to return to their jobs after ICE serves an inspection notice to their employer.
“The directives have resulted in an explosion of immigration enforcement across industries and regions,” said the report.
This month alone, ICE detained hundreds of undocumented workers across the country — including at a meat-processing facility in Omaha, gas stations in Phoenix, construction sites in Tallahassee and Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, and a pallet manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania.
The broader enforcement push aligns with a directive from White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who reportedly called for a minimum of 3,000 immigration arrests daily, the report noted.
The stepped-up operations were evident last week in Los Angeles, where ICE agents executed a search warrant at a women's clothing factory and arrested day laborers in a Home Depot parking lot. Those actions triggered protests, prompting President Donald Trump to mobilize the National Guard and U.S. Marines.
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