For example, a 2005 program, “Operation Rollback,” assessed $15,000,000 in civil fines to employers, an amount greater than the sum of administrative fines collected in the previous eight years and was the largest worksite enforcement penalty in US history. In the first quarter of FY07, criminal and civil forfeitures have totaled $26,700,000 for employers.
IOW, they have are addressing action and enforcement.
It's an absolute joke. This program had something like 1 federal employee per 25,000 illegal aliens. From 1992 to 2002, the number of employers who were fined for hiring illegal aliens dropped by 99%.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20041107-9999-8n7jobs.html
Perhaps most tellingly, investigators are spending less time going after employers: Since 1999, investigative work hours dedicated to work-site enforcement have decreased by more than half. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents spent a total of 471,210 work hours investigating employers in 1999. They spent only 177,975 work hours doing so last year (2003).
That's right, in 2003, if you believe the low ball number of 12,000,000 illegal aliens, only 177,975 hours of Federal employee time went into investigating illegals in the workforce.
For a grand total of 9 minutes of Federal investigative time per illegal alien in the United States.
But now all of a sudden the Federal government is promising to turn around Z visas in less than 24 hours. Once again the White House has taken an official position to blatantly lie to the American people in a coordinated attempt to