Crackdown on Employers

The Dept. of Homeland Security is starting to crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants, targeting a Netherlands-based firm with facilities in Chicago and other major cities. The government says that the arrests came after a witness reported the destruction of W-2 forms at a company plant in New York. Tribune story here.

The 26 arrested in Chicago were "released on their own recognizance Thursday from a federal immigration processing facility in Broadview".

But immigration-rights activist Roberto Carlos Lopez of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, or Community Without Borders, called upon the government Thursday to stop such raids and any deportations while Congress debates immigration.

Interesting name for the group.