Inside these posts: Homeland security

Visit our Filed page for categories. To browse by specific topic, see our Inside page. For a list of companies covered on this site, visit our Companies page.

 

U.S. cracks down on hiring of illegal immigrants

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 »

U.S. to end Boeing border fence project

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 »