Why Comply?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not only targeting employers, but is also holding accountable individual executives,
managers, and former managers who actually hired the illegal workers. Non-compliance can result in fines anywhere from $110 to
$11,000 per violation, and forfeiture of the company's assets.
Depending on company, self audit statistics show Form I-9 errors in 10% to 40% of currently maintained forms. At a $110/error,
fines can add up.
The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is aggressively checking that
businesses are fully compliant.
In the fiscal year 2006:
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 716 individuals on criminal charges.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 3,667 individuals on administrative charges.
These numbers are more than 7 times greater than the total for 2002