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Know this Now: Immigration Policy Shifts for Employers

By February 14, 2025No Comments

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  • 颁辞尘颈迟茅 de 100 members also spoke with the earlier in the week about how threats of mass deportations are hurting small businesses across the country.

News Briefing

Immigration Enforcement and Deportations

  • nationwide and 75 per field office. warn the quotas could lead to 鈥�more indiscriminate enforcement tactics鈥� and the detention of undocumented individuals without criminal histories.
  • amid dissatisfaction over low deportation numbers. Despite a per day by late January, the . Factors such as have been cited as challenges.听
  • The this week, a move that could allow the Trump administration to speed deportations of people from nations that resist accepting deportation flights.
  • , if Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gets approval from the Treasury Secretary for IRS criminal investigators to join deportation efforts. These agents would reportedly focus on .
  • agents in Los Angeles field offices are being called on to assist ICE in an upcoming 鈥榣arge scale鈥� immigration operation in the area in February, according to documents leaked to the Los Angeles Times.

News from Capitol Hill

  • Both the Senate Budget Committee and House Budget committee passed their key budget plans in committee that will help unlock a process called to help achieve President Trump鈥檚 policy priorities including immigration enforcement, tax cuts, energy and defense. Republicans are debating whether the budget should be done via one or two bills, out of committee on Wednesday, while with $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts.
  • The House passed a resolution Wednesday to end work permit extensions. If it becomes law, it will impact immigrants with pending work authorization renewals, including DACA recipients, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, asylum seekers and refugees as well as essential workers in key industries facing labor shortages. Link to more

Industry Spotlight: Agriculture Anxieties Over Mass Deportations

  • over the impact of mass deportations on their workforce, and America鈥檚 food and dairy production, with one farmer 鈥淲e鈥檒l have to go vegan.鈥� See .
  • Watch these news clips to hear directly from on NBC, and about agriculture impacts.

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In Their Own Words
More quotes from ABIC and Comite虂 de 100 members speaking to the Wall Street Journal for the article

Speaking on the impact of mass deportation on our food system:
鈥�If you were to remove a significant part of our farm workforce, we鈥檙e going to start seeing $20 lettuce, $16 cartons of eggs, or no milk. Because nearly all of the dairy farmers and farm workers here in our nation are immigrants.鈥�- ABIC CEO Rebecca Shi

鈥�Any moral argument about immigration has to be tethered to material self-interest.Undocumented workers are holding up the economy. They build houses, staff our hospitals, feed our families, care for the youngest and oldest in our society.鈥澨�

Key Employer Resources:

Fact Sheet on Managing No-Match Letters, Form I-9 Audits and Worksite Visits

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    • The Packer: (2/6/25)
    • Audacy: (2/3/25)
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