Feb. 17 at 8:14 a.m.
Filed under:
Jobs/employment,
Work culture
By Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street Journal
The federal government is requiring as many as 1,000 companies to turn over their employment records for inspection, part of an expanding crackdown on businesses suspected of hiring illegal immigrants, according to people close to the Department of Homeland Security.
The audits, which the government is expected to make public in the next few days, represent the biggest operation since 2009. At that time, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a DHS unit, conducted an auditing sweep of businesses working in public safety and national security. Get the full story »
Jan. 14 at 1:52 p.m.
Filed under:
Defense,
Government,
Technology
By Reuters
President Barack Obama’s administration plans to pull the plug on the troubled “virtual fence” project meant to better guard stretches of the U.S. border with Mexico, a senior lawmaker said Friday.
The project, being run by Boeing Co., has cost about $1 billion to pull together video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies to detect smugglers trying to cross the porous border. Get the full story »
