Bloomberg Law consulted Harris Beach Murtha Immigration Practice Group Leader L.J. D’Arrigo for a story on businesses preparing for potential workplace immigration enforcement.

Harris Beach Murtha immigration attorneys are encouraging clients to strategize and proactively prepare for I-9 audits and visits from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. L.J. recommends companies assess what options are available to pursue a more secure status for vulnerable employees.

According to the article, creating protocols for ICE visits has become even more urgent for health care, education and religious employers since a Homeland Security directive last month dropped a Biden administration policy banning immigration arrests at “sensitive locations.” “That’s left organizations like hospitals scrambling to put together a game plan with anyone from medical staff to patients ‘up for grabs’ in a raid,” he said.

Regarding ICE visits, L.J. advises businesses that employees have rights to remain silent and to ask that ICE agents don’t go beyond public areas without a warrant.

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