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How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age:
The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State's Long Beach Peninsula, at the port where the oyster boats come and go. Rather than gaze at the bay or the boats or the building-size piles of bleached shells, two men — one thinner, one thicker — stared at the shellfish workers. The strangers sat in their vehicle and watched the workers arrive in their trucks. They watched the workers grab their gear and walk to the docks. The workers watched them watching, too, and they soon began to realize that the men were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When the workers made eye contact, the officers nodded politely, but they said very little. For weeks, they just watched. Then the workers began to vanish.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday October 09 2019, @07:11PM
This is the I-9 form you fill out when starting a new job. One of the kinks in the e-verify system is that an employer is not permitted to question documents if the person passes e-verify. This makes employment with copies of valid credentials a common way to gain illegal employment. The radio show This American Life did a fascinating special on it that is certainly worth a listen.