However, a company could still find itself liable if it contracts work to a company knowing that the contractor employs unauthorized workers.

An employer who hires an unauthorized worker can be fined between $250 and $5,500 per worker.

Both employers and their unauthorized workers run some risk, but the risk is small because enforcement is difficult.

But its findings of widespread illegal immigration apply to all parts of the economy that attract unauthorized foreign workers.

Both the commission and various immigration experts say the steady influx of unauthorized workers worsens working conditions for everyone.

Current regulations do not provide procedures that help protect an employer from allegations that he knowingly employed unauthorized workers.

As the accuracy of the program in finding unauthorized workers is a mere 46% according to internal reports, the program has been claimed as inaccurate.

The continuing practice of hiring unauthorized workers has been referred to as “the magnet for illegal immigration.

The October 2003 raid was not the first time Walmart was found using unauthorized workers.

Estimates of unauthorized workers in the country range from 50,000 up.