Controversial practice of

Immigration officials continue to support a controversial enforcement practice that lured undocumented workers to an immigration sting by advertising it as a mandatory Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) meeting. In July 2005 federal and state labor officials criticized immigration investigators for using a safety meeting ruse to arrest some undocumented North Carolina construction workers. Immigration officials had set up an immigration sting by posting fliers for a mandatory safety meeting at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Worker advocates say such ruses would make it more difficult to attract immigrant workers to legitimate safety meetings, but immigration officials say they have no intentions of taking such enforcement techniques off the table.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has launched an enforcement effort focusing on businesses with ties to security-sensitive sites and critical infrastructure facilities — including airports, military bases, and bio-agriculture industries. The agency contends unauthorized workers with access to such sites are vulnerable to exploitation by terrorists, smugglers, traffickers, or other criminals

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