Stanford Professor Calculates $104 Billion in uncollected immigration penalties on US corporate books

Stanford Law School’s Worksite Immigration Compliance Symposium, the nation’s premiere immigration compliance event,  attracted key decision makers from government, academia and private industry.

 In the Symposium’s opening address, Stanford Law Professor F. Dan Siciliano, calculated that based on the fact that the average US worker has 1.2 jobs, that the amount of contingent immigration penalty liability on the books of US employers is at least $104 billion, not including criminal fines.

 The April 20, 2012 edition of the Symposium was a summit meeting of key experts in the worksite compliance space including rare appearances from high power speakers such as John Morton,  the Director of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , Department of Homeland Security.  Director Morton told the audience that ICE was prepared to use a “carrot and stick approach” to compliance.  Read more...