From AFP:
The U.S. is to crack down on employers that hire illegal immigrants, shifting the focus away from controversial raids that target migrants directly, a top administration official said on Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said she had asked for prosecutions to be stepped up against employers who break immigration rules, pivoting away from contentious raids, which critics say unfairly target Hispanics.
“A primary driver of illegal immigration is the labor market and you have to go after the pull that that market has created. That means you have to go after the employers who are hire illegal labor,” she said in an address at the Aspen Institute, a think tank.
“There has been a lot of controversy about so-called work-site raids, whether those were effective, whether they separated families, whether they were placing fear into people,” said the former Arizona governor.