Immigration Reform
Immigration Reform

Author: United States. General Accounting Office

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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An investigation was made of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, which requires employers to verify employment eligibility of workers and imposes civil and criminal penalties against employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers. The study reviewed federal agency implementation of irca, reviewed discrimination complaints filed with federal agencies and data from groups representing aliens, and used additional methods to obtain data on IRCA's effects. The other methods included a statistically valid survey of more than 9,400 employers and a hiring audit in which pairs of persons (one a "foreign-sounding, foreign-appearing" Hispanic and one an Anglo with no foreign accent) who matched closely on job qualifications applied for jobs with 360 employers in 2 cities. The study found that the IRCA: (1) has apparently reduced illegal immigration and is not an unnecessary burden on employers; (2) has generally been carried out satisfactorily by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Department of Labor; and (3) has not been used as a vehicle to launch frivolous complaints against employers. The study also found that widespread discrimination was a result of the irca: many employers discriminated because the law's verification system does not provide a simple or reliable method to verify job applicants' eligibility to work. The discrimination would be reduced if employers were provided with more education on the law's requirements and a simpler, more reliable verification system. (The document includes 22 tables, 20 figures, and copies of the questionnaires.)

Immigration Reform
Immigration Reform

Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-27

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781720368809

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Immigration Reform: Employer Sanctions and the Question of Discrimination

Immigration Reform
Immigration Reform

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781289230654

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In response to a legislative requirement, GAO surveyed implementation and enforcement of the Immigration Reform and Control Act's (IRCA) employer sanction provisions to determine whether the: (1) Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and other federal agencies satisfactorily carried out IRCA; and (2) provisions caused a widespread pattern of discrimination against U.S. citizens or others or created an unnecessary regulatory burden on employers. GAO found that: (1) although INS continued to educate employers while increasing enforcement, 22 percent of the employers GAO surveyed were not aware of IRCA, and 20 percent did not clearly understand major IRCA provisions; (2) as of September 1988, INS had recorded 452 violations for employing unauthorized aliens and about 4,700 violations for not completing required forms; and (3) about half of the 1.9 million employers who were aware of the law hired at least one employee who had not completed the required form. GAO also found that: (1) INS did not systematically analyze data on unauthorized aliens' use of counterfeit documents; (2) INS did not distinguish between employers who voluntarily complied with the act before receiving a notice of inspection and those that it brought into compliance through inspection; and (3) INS and the Department of Labor (DOL) did not consistently review employers' payroll records to verify that there were no other employees hired who had not completed the required form. In addition, GAO found that: (1) the number of discrimination charges filed with the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and data on IRCA-related discrimination did not establish a pattern of discrimination; and (2) there was insufficient information to determine whether the employer sanction provisions caused an unnecessary regulatory burden.