No documents, no problem for companies -- Little blowback for illegal worker hires

Today's AJC has an informative article on current and past enforcement of hiring illegal immigrants. It notes:

[In the 1990s] the government annually issued hundreds of noncriminal fines to businesses for employing illegal immigrants.

Now, fines for simply hiring illegal immigrants are rare.

[In 1992] the government delivered 1,461 notices of intent to fine to employers for violating immigration laws. By 2004, there were three.