ICE to Step Up Searches for Illegal Aliens at Workplaces

Agency chief wants to more than quadruple workplace inspections

Tom Homan, deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), at an immigration event at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Oct. 17, 2017. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—Tom Homan, acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said he has instructed his agents to increase workplace inspections and find employers who hire illegal aliens.

“I just gave the instruction—I want to increase [it] by four to five times,” Homan said at an event at the Heritage Foundation on Oct. 17.