Answer to Question of the Week: The Ice Man Cometh
Each week, we post a thought-provoking question for your consideration. Here’s last week’s question, along with your responses.
Someone tells you the “Ice Man” is at the door. What does that mean?
a. You will have plenty of ice to keep bratwurst and mixed drinks properly chilled in your workplace (2%)
b. You’d better hope/pray that your I-9s are fully and lawfully completed (63%)
c. The International Commission on Education is about to present you with an award for your novel approach to EEO training which currently consists of proactively and strategically ignoring all employment disputes (2%)
d. The newly created Interstate Council on Employment is seeking data on your workforce, including outsourcing, off-shoring and cross-border migration patterns (33%)
Great work — the correct answer is indeed “b.” “ICE” stands for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the primary investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.
ICE has been generating quite a bit of publicity recently, thanks to large-scale workplace raids designed to net illegal immigrants. On August 25, for example, ICE arrested 595 workers during a raid of a manufacturing plant in Mississippi. That raid broke the previous record of 390 ICE arrests at an Iowa meatpacking plant earlier this year. According to ICE, more than 100 owners, managers and HR professionals have been charged with crimes resulting from its raids.
Don’t let that happen to you. Follow immigration laws — particularly I-9 procedures — to the letter. For more tips, check out our handy Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) Cheat Sheet here.
Our visitors are now batting an impressive .500 (17 right, 17 wrong) on our weekly questions. The next one will be coming your way soon.
Thanks for your participation!
