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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it has served Notices of Inspection (NOIs) on 180 businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee. ICE will review these businesses’ hiring records to determine their compliance with federal employment eligibility verification laws. As previously discussed, in 2009 ICE developed a new enforcement strategy that includes significantly increasing the number of forensic audits. In December 2009, 1,000 businesses faced an audit. In July 2009, ICE issued more NOIs in one day—652—than it did in all of 2008.