How to Respond When ICE Offers to Help

Maria del Carmen Ramos
Maria del Carmen Ramos

When someone approaches you in a friendly manner, you want to oblige. When someone smiles, your natural inclination is to smile back. So it’s no wonder that an employer may not understand the danger posed when a friendly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) auditor shows up at the workplace to help the employer understand its recordkeeping obligations and ensure the employer is doing its paperwork properly, even promising to do so in a timely manner so as not to disrupt the employer’s business. Continue reading “How to Respond When ICE Offers to Help”

Salt Lake City’s Only Five Diamond Hotel Fined $2 Million for I-9 Violations

Maria del Carmen Ramos
Maria del Carmen Ramos

Grand America Hotel has agreed to pay a fine of nearly $2 million to avoid criminal prosecution for hiring employees not authorized to work in the U.S. The company will also cooperate with a Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) investigation and will take steps to correct its hiring practices. Continue reading “Salt Lake City’s Only Five Diamond Hotel Fined $2 Million for I-9 Violations”