Newman’s own: a viewpoint on immigration regulation
Immigration practice group leader and Atlanta partner Mark Newman’s column “Immigration crackdown hits employers” appeared in the April 1-7 issue of the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
“At a time when President Barack Obama is encouraging American companies to restart their hiring engines, the nation’s employers find themselves spending precious time and money not on hiring, but on defending their hiring practices,” Newman asserts in the opening of his column. “In particular, companies small and large face greater regulation than ever over the hiring of legally authorized workers.”
In discussing changes in immigration regulation over the last 25 years, Newman points to 9/11 and the Great Recession as spurring “a national response that illegal immigrants must be the cause of all our country’s woes,” thus bringing about the current “dizzying and difficult maze” of the country’s current immigration regulatory requirements.
“The bottom line is that … employers, who should be using their cash stockpiles to sell more products, provide more services and add to their workforce,” he concludes, “are instead grappling with a new wave of regulation that only serves to siphon away that precious cash.”