Undocumented Contractors

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is not happy about recent reports about an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid that found an Oregon company working under contract to the Forest Service had employed 14 undocumented workers. Smith sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Rob Portman today asking, “How can we expect the federal government to enforce a massive new guest worker program when it does not abide by current laws?” Smith asked Portman to require agencies and their contractors to join a pilot employee verification program to prevent such incidents in the future.