News Sources: Undocumented Worker Crackdown

The Department of Homeland Security is about to issue new regulations on how businesses must respond when informed that there are discrepancies in a worker's tax records. Under the new rules employees would have a limited time to contact the Social Security Administration to correct the information or face possible fines. Critics say the federal crackdown on the hiring of undocumented workers will leave farmers without workers to pick crops, restaurants without cooks and dishwashers, and will reduce employment in the construction, janitorial and landscaping industries. Repoerters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including (click on names for contact information):

Dean Hubbard - Professor of Public Policy, Sarah Lawrence College - Holder of the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy, Hubbard’s expertise focuses on issues of immigrant laborers, U.S. labor law, employment discrimination and community organization; and international labor relations.

Frank C. Wykoff - Elden Smith Professor of Economics, Pomona College - Wykoff is the author of Understanding Economics Today and Macroeconomics: Theory, Evidence and Policy. He is the editor of Economic Inquiry, the Journal of the Western Economic Association, and a consultant to the U.S. General Accounting Office, the U.S. Labor Department. and the U.S. Treasury Department.

Robert Smith - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barnard College - Author of articles on immigration, currently revising book on Mexican immigration; co-author of report to U.S. State Department comparing InterAmerican and Mediterranean-European migration systems.