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Federal Judge Halts Implementation of Immigration Enforcement Law

Earlier this week, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily halted the Department of Homeland Security from carrying out new rules to crack down on employers of undocumented immigrants, dealing a legal setback to the Bush Administration’s key efforts to more stringently enforce immigration laws.

The New York Times reports that the judge, Maxine M. Chesney of federal court for the Northern District of California, further ordered the Social Security Administration to suspend a mailing of some 140,000 letters to employers advising them that their employees’ Social Security information did not match the agency’s records. The mailings, commonly known as ‘no-match’ letters, which included a notice of the DHS’s new rules involving steps to terminating employees with falsified documentation. The rules were announced in announced in August and were expected to take effect on Sept. 10.

The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed two days earlier by the AFL-CIO and several California labor groups, who argue that because of the numerous errors plaguing the Social Security Administration’s database, and that many innocent American citizens and legal immigrant workers could be at risk. The judge determined that the complaint raised "serious questions" as to whether both federal agencies had overstepped their authority, and that by delaying the rules, there would be less harm than if they were put into action in its current form.

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