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NEW! Employers across the country panic over the potential loss of immigrant workers after the Trump administration sends out 577,000 Social Security no-match letters nyti.ms/2HtPtce
The Trump administration revived a practice of informing employers when the Social Security Administration detects a mismatch between the name and Social Security number of a worker.
The hardest-hit industries are agriculture, construction and hospitality, which employ many workers without legal status in the United States. One grower in California said, "This could shut us down."
It had been at least a decade since employers had received Social Security Administration letters notifying them of discrepancies and instructing them to rectify them. That means informing their workers, who are likely to quit immediately if they are undocumented.
Immigration lawyers report being swamped with calls from concerned businesses, which could be penalized down the road for employing undocumented workers. Many employers say what they need is immigration reform, not immigration enforcement.
