Audit leads to mass firings

January 15, 2010
Capital Press

A Washington state tree fruit company is among the first of 190 West Coast businesses the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has targeted for workforce audits.

A total of 33 companies in Washington, 150 in California, four in Idaho and three in Oregon are being audited by the federal agency to determine if they knowingly hired illegal aliens.

The Washington company was forced to dismiss hundreds of employees whose paperwork was not in order. Neither the company nor ICE officials would specify the exact number of terminations, but reports range from a few hundred to 800.

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