{"id":2117,"date":"2012-12-11T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2015-07-30T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:35:24","slug":"inspector-general-illegal-aliens-working-in-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/12\/11\/inspector-general-illegal-aliens-working-in-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspector General: Illegal Aliens Working in Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a little publicized semi-annual report to  Congress, the Inspector General for the <a href=\"http:\/\/aoc.gov\/about-aoc\/responsibilities-architect\" target=\"_blank\">Architect of  the Capitol<\/a>,  the agency tasked with maintaining the building and grounds for  the  U.S. Congress and U.S. Supreme Court, found that several illegal aliens  had  been hired by subcontractors to complete projects on Capitol  grounds this last  year. (<em>Roll Call<\/em>, Dec. 4, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Under federal law, the Architect of the  Capitol&#8217;s contractors and  subcontractors are required to use the E-Verify  system to verify the  employment eligibility of hires. (<em>See <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/portal\/site\/uscis\/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a\/?vgnextoid=534bbd181e09d110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&amp;vgnextchannel=534bbd181e09d110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD\" target=\"_blank\">USCIS  Website<\/a>; <em>see also <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2008-11-14\/html\/E8-26906.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Federal  Acquisition Regulation<\/a>)  However, a &#8220;second-tier&#8221; subcontractor  failed to use the system,  resulting in the hiring of five illegal aliens who  used fraudulent  documentation to obtain employment. (Inspector General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/SAR_12-2_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a> at p. 7-8) Three  of the illegal aliens received site badges, and the  other two while working on  site, were never badged as required by their  contract. (<em>Id.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the Inspector General  determined that the  subcontractor did not violate any criminal laws because of  &#8220;his  ignorance&#8221; of the requirement to use E-Verify and because the illegal   aliens had passed an FBI background check. (<em>Id. <\/em>at p. 16) As  such, the Inspector General did not refer the subcontractor to  the U.S.  Attorney&#8217;s Office for prosecution, but rather, referred the allegations   regarding the use of fraudulent documentation \u2014 green cards and SSNs \u2014  to U.S.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Social  Security  Administration. (<em>Id.<\/em>) Given that  document fraud is  not an enforcement &#8220;priority&#8221; under the Obama Administration,  it is  unlikely the illegal aliens will face any consequences for their  actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a little publicized semi-annual report to Congress, the Inspector General for the Architect of the Capitol, the agency tasked with maintaining the building and grounds for the U.S. Congress and U.S. Supreme Court, found that several illegal aliens had been hired by subcontractors to complete projects on Capitol grounds this last year. (Roll Call,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/12\/11\/inspector-general-illegal-aliens-working-in-capitol\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5,3,11,6,4,10,7],"tags":[406,20],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}