Following Weeks of Threats, President Donald Trump’s Administration Announched the Start of A Deportation Cammagen in Chicago by Federal Agents on Monday. The Administration has escaailed enforcement, targeting immigrants with Legal Status, in Other CITIES LIKE LOS Angeles and Boston.
Looming Fear of the Increase Presence of USMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES HAVE Raised Questions and Concerns from Both Workers and Businesses.
Forty Percent of People in Illinois’ Food Service Industry Are Immigrants, Accounting to Illinois Restaurant Association President Sam Toia.
“The Hospitality Industry here in the City of Chicago Woul Not Exist with the Immigrant Community,” he Said. “So we’re here to protact our workers.”
The Sun-Times and Wbez Asked Experts to Share What Businesses and Employees Should Know ATHEAD OF AN INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT.
Will Employers Need to Prepare for Federal Authorities?
Experts Said Employers Should Create a Written plan with their Employees and Make Sure Workers Are Trained on That Plan. This plan should be performed on who is in charge of opening the door, how to notify staff, make to call an attorney and how to take video and document what’s happy.
Federal Immigration Officials Aren’t Allowed to Go Private Private Unless They Have a Judicial Warrant, A Written Court Signed by A Judge Autorizing A Law Enforcement Office to Make An Arrest.
But Toia and Local Labor Organizers Say in the Majority of Cases Federal Agents Don’t Actually Show Judicial Warrants.
Toia recommends Businesses USE Signage to Clearly Mark Areas That Private, Meaning Areas for Employees Only.
“So all (Employees have) to be go back in the kitchen and just stay there are that (federal agents) can’t come in, unless the Employer Says Its Okay.”
Jessie Hahn, Senior Counsel for Labor and Employment Policy at the National Immigration Law Center, Said Signage in WorkPlaces Should Clearly Indicate the Business Where Federal Agents A Judicial Warrant.
HOW CAN FEDERAL AGENTS GAIN ACCESS TO THE WORKPLACE?
Much of the Immigration Related Enforcement Happening in La, Washington, DC, and Most Recently, in Chicago Have Happened in Public Spaces, Including Streets of Food and Grocery Delivery, Car Wash and Agricultural Workers in Open Federal Authorities Don’t Need a Judicial Warrant.
Federal Immigration Authorities May Try to Go Inside A Business Using an Administrative Warrant, or Requesting An I-9 Compliance audit.
If Federal Authorities Show an Administrative Warrant – which is swimming by a Judge – Businesses don’t have to allow inside. If they have the strength they do in, experts said employers should not try to stop say.
An I-9 Compliance Audit is a Review of an Employer’s I-9 forms, which is used to check if a new employs is eligible to work in the us
Labor and Employment Attorney Homero Tristan Said Employers have three days to respond to a notice of inspection.
“(Employers) have the right to say to the agent, ‘I’m not prepared for you to be here. And escort say out, ”Tristan, of Tristan & Cervantes, Said.
Other Experts Said Employers Are Obligated to Keep Proof of Identification for Any Employee. They are Only Required to Ask for Proof of Work Autorization During the Hiring Process and Keep a Completed I-9 Form for Every Employee Hirhed UNIL THEY STOP WORKING FOR THE BUSINESS.
What Should Workers will if immigration agents show up?
Hahn, of the National Immigration Law Center, Recommends Workers Follow these guidelines:
- Don’t run. “If they Run, they will give ice probable cause to the detail I say,” Hahn Said.
- Remain silent. If workers have an encounter with Ice agent, they have the right to remain silent.
- Carry a Know Your Rights card to communicate with agents. The Wallet-Sized Card Contains Information Regarding the Constitutional Rights Individuals Have Wen Talking to Law Enforcement and Immigration Officers. Employers are enCouneded to kep a card with saying to authorities.
- Document what the federal agents are doing. Workers, bystanders and Employers are encurated to record what action Ice and Other Authorities are taching.
- Ask to speak with an attorney if detail.
“I Think it Remains Really Important for People to Invoke Their Rights, this if Ice is not Respecting,” Hahn Said. “IT’S’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE MOMENT THAT’RE’S DETAIL, ITS ABOUT WHAT’S GOING TO THAT LATER, AND WHERE or not the Ice Agent’s CONDUCT WAS OUTDESSE OF THE LAW IN A WAY THAT THEN BE CHALLENGED RIGHT A JUDGE.”
What if Employees Don’t Show Up to Work Out of Fear?
Toia Said Some Restaurants in Illinois have seen up to 20% of their staff not show up to work they “a little on Edge.”
“Have a Meeting with the Managers to Review Best Practices, Legal Rights and Review with the Staff,” he Said.
Daniel Kim, attorney with Little, Said it Important for Employers to Review Their Existing Attendance and Scheduling Police.
“JUST UNDERSTAND THAT LAST minute no calls, no Shows from Employees and (the) Need to Fill Certain Posits caused by Those No Calls, No Shows (Becuses) There’s Going to Be Certain Added,” Kim Said.
Hahn Said Some Workers Have Been Afraid they Might be Swept Up in A Raid at their workplace or during their commute. So they’re staying home.
“I WORKED WITH COMMUNITY BASED ORDERS WHO ARE TRYING TO START MUTUAL AID FLUNS,” SAID, “To Help Get Workers Food and Other Necesities They Might Need.”
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