No Match Letters Stalled CHICAGO, IL (wqub) - A federal judge has temporarily stopped the U-S government's plan to crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
The government wanted to require businesses to fire workers who had inconsistencies in their Social Security records.
Diego Bonesatti of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights applauds the ruling that blocks this plan.

"This is being used as an immigration enforcement tool which it was not designed to be. And i think we're going to be seeing a whole bunch of different attempts like this to retool statutes that don't offer this power.]

The judge halted the program until a lawsuit filed by labor and immigrant groups is resolved © Copyright 2009, wqub