The Dept. of Homeland Security will temporarily abandon efforts to enforce its regulation cracking down on employers who systematically hire illegal immigrants. Instead, DHS says it will develop a new proposal that it hopes can pass legal muster.
In papers filed with U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Nov. 23, DHS asked for a stay until March 2008 of a pending lawsuit challenging its “no-match” rule so that it can draw up a proposal addressing some of the concerns a federal judge raised in October. DHS told the court it plans to develop and publish its revised proposal by March.