National Data | Chart | Quietly, Employer Sanctions Have Been Abandoned

By Edwin Rubenstein on October 4, 2004 at 1:00am

Table 1:

Employer Investigations Conducted by

U.S. Immigration Authorities, 1997-2003

 

 

Investigations

Number of

Year

Arrests

Completed

Fines Levied

1997

17,554

7,537

778

1998

13,914

7,788

535

1999

2,849

3,898

297

2000

953

1,966

180

2001

735

1,595

78

2002

485

2,061

13

2003

445

2,194

124

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Dept. of Homeland Security, 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics,

September 2004. Table 39.(1997-2003)

Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis.