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Were illegally here and the colleges say we weren't sure they were illegally here but to back up, the lawsuit is a very narrow area of the law and it illustrates how outrageous the justice department's approach is, we have hundreds of thousands of employers, across the country, who are not following federal law, who are not demanding any documents. the federal law says when the person fills out their i-9 form and get a job, the employer has to ask for certain documents, hundreds of thousands of employers are not complying with the law and the obama administration, instead is going after the on...

Apple and cherry orchards, and to see 300 jamaicans, and they have joined about 700 mexicans in this guest worker program, and the farms said they had to do this because they couldn't get americans to do the job. they got busted, as you mentioned, last year with the i-9 crackdown the obama administration put in place and had to fire 550 workers. using the guest worker program is not easy or cheap, it costs about $2600 per jamaican just for transportation to and from and housing. the growers also required to advertise the jobs in four states for six months before hiring foreign workers. even th...

Deportation down 5%. you say the administration doubled auditing of companies' employment records. what's the detail in that? >> yeah. so as part of their work site enforcement, they've shifted emphasis. instead of arriving at a meat packing plant and rounding up workers, they've ramped up what are called i-9 audits. systematically over a long period, they review the record and check whether the employees are authorized to work. if they're not, they perform the company, which may fire the workers. if they find that the company, the employer has knowingly hired illegal immigrants, they may also...

A lot of people think it is common sense and yet it doesn't seem to have all support, republican seems to be split on a lot of these issues. >> there are splits and divisions, some areas of unity, as well. was interesting on the e-verify, no one has a problem with the i-9 form. everyone fills out the w-2 and i-9 form. the i-9 form is to verify their status. but it doesn't do is take the next step and tell the employer whether that's actually the person that is looking at you with false documents are real documents. there is no reason we can't combine the i-9 and the e-verify together is it one...

Correct? >> yes and we asked specifically for someone they knew was documented. >> sean: and they provided you with documentation. a social security number, right? >> we had a copy of a social security card. a copy of a drivers -- diverer's license and an i-9 form filled out that says the employee signed under the penalty of i assert that i am legal to work -- of perjury, a that i am legal to work this country. >> sean: now allred goes to this letter you and your husband received from the social security administration, correct? >> yes. neither of us remembered receiving this. but, then it sho...