XIV. OCAHO Decisions

In 2013, there was significantly greater litigation at Office of Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO) involving I-9 form violations. ICE, the prosecutor of these cases, won 29 of the 30 OCAHO decisions. However, even though ICE won, in part, 29 cases involving the level of penalties, the employers were successful in greatly reducing the total amount of the penalties. In 2013, OCAHO reduced penalties sought by ICE by an average of 46.5% – reducing the penalties sought by ICE from $1,091,259.75 to approximately $508,020.  The reduction in penalties is similar to 2012 when the reduction averaged 45 per cent, although it only involved 11 cases.

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