The documents are easy to counterfeit, so the federal government developed an online employer verification system in the 1990s under President Bill Clinton, and the use of it soared after 2007. Employers must attest that they made a good faith effort to verify the eligibility of workers by completing an I-9 form. We also found some background in a 2010 investigation from the Orange County Register.Īfter multiple efforts, Congress passed the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which stated that employers couldn’t knowingly hire unauthorized workers. Their 2013 paper about the history of immigration enforcement includes a chapter on workplace enforcement. Here, we will explore if Obama holds the record for cracking down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.įor some background, we turned to the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank that studies worldwide migration. In a related fact-check, we gave Wasserman Schultz, who also serves as the Democratic National Committee chair, a Mostly True for her claim about border patrol and security. Obama "has cracked down on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president."
"President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president," said Wasserman Schultz, in a June 20 interview on MSNBC.
President Barack Obama is the boss-buster in chief when it comes to going after employers who hire undocumented workers, according to U.S.
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