More on the Business-Civil Rights Alliance on No-Match

Cindy Skrzycki writes for Bloomberg.com

Business groups are hoping that a U.S. court will block an immigration rule that could affect millions of employers and workers, arguing that the government didn’t consider the new regulation’s impact on small business.

In an unusual alliance, business associations joined labor unions in suing the Department of Homeland Security over a plan that could lead companies to fire workers whose Social Security numbers don’t match up with their names in a federal data base.

“Agencies must do their homework, and DHS did not,” by paying “lip service” to the required review, said Karen Harned, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation, an arm of the 600,000- member Washington-based small-business trade group. Click here for the full story.

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