Court Blocks Flawed Immigration Rule

A federal judge issued an order last Friday temporarily blocking the government from implementing a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule that would cause U.S. citizens and other authorized workers to lose their jobs, and which would illegally use error-prone social security records as a tool for immigration enforcement. The judge's order also stopped the Social Security Administration (SSA) from beginning to send notices yesterday to approximately 140,000 employers across the country notifying them of the new rule, which would impact approximately eight million workers. The order resulted from a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by the AFL-CIO, the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the Central Labor Council of Alameda County along with other local labor movements. Click here for details.