A New Emphasis on Interior Enforcement?

On April 20, CNN reported that

Federal immigration authorities rounded up more than 1,000 illegal immigrants at dozens of sites and charged nine individuals of the firm that employed them, federal law enforcement officials announced. . . . Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and other Bush administration officials and a federal prosecutor will appear at the agency’s Washington headquarters Thursday. They will announce the new strategy aimed at employers and disclose the results of the enforcement actions targeting IFCO Systems. . . .A customs official said federal authorities checked a “sample” of 5,800 IFCO employee records last year and found that 53 percent had faulty Social Security numbers.

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Will this mark a new emphasis on interior enforcement?  Probably not.  We have seen highgly publicized raids, including of Wal-Mart and Tyson Foods, in recent memory but without much follow-up. 

KJ