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On April 30, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a Fact Sheet discussing its revised Worksite Enforcement Strategy. The DHS enforcement strategy was revised at the direction of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano after she expressed concerns that enforcement efforts were targeted more at employees rather than employers abusing the law. Indeed, the Fact Sheet acknowledges that there were more than 6,000 arrests related to worksite enforcement in 2008, but only 135 employers were arrested. Continue reading at Littler's Global Immigration Counsel blog.