According to a recent report, the Obama administration plans to increase the amount of audits conducted of employers’ I-9 records and information. According to John Morton, chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Employment Compliance Inspection Center will conduct audits of all sizes of employers, even large employers with large amounts of employees.

In the year that ended September 30, 2010, ICE had conducted audits of over 2,700 companies. This was double the amount of audits as conducted the previous year. Seven million dollars in fines were given to companies that hired and employed ineligible aliens.