Legal Ease: How to Respond to the Increasingly Aggressive Pursuit of Employers and Undocumented Workers

摘要

In early April, after a three-year hiatus, the Social Security Administration (SSA) resumed sending No-Match Letters, advising employers that an employee's reported name or Social Security number (SSN) does not "match" a name or SSN combination in the SSA database. This re-introduction of the No-Match Letters, in conjunction with ICE's skyrocketing issuance of Notice of Inspections of I-9s, evidences the federal government's increasingly aggressive stance in using all available information to curb the hiring Of unauthorized workers and to penalize employers who do.