b'BUSINESS MANAGEMENTWHAT TO DOIF IMMIGRATION AGENTS COME TO YOUR JOBSITEBy: Zachary Phillips, Construction Dive EditorThe incoming Trump administration has promised to step up workplace raids. Heres how contractors can prepare.L astmonth,President-electtargeted by jobsite raids, and contractors need to DonaldTrumpnamedTomprepare for the possibility of unannounced visits Homan, former acting headfrom federal agents, lawyers say.of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as hisWhat to knowborder czar. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents may Homanhaspromisedthattheincomingcome to a workplace as part of an investigation into administration will increase workplace raids asan employer, according to the National Immigration part of its broader immigration plan. Its not clearLaw Center. There are several reasons why they yet which industries would be most affected, butwould be there.there are clues from Trumps first term.As part of an external I-9 audit, federal agents Weareanticipatingtheresumptionofmassvisit a jobsite to review employers records for worksite raids under the first Trump administrationworker authorization. In those cases, contractors that were focused mostly on the manufacturingget a three-day heads up, said Shanon Stevenson, and meat and poultry processing industries. Butpartner at Atlanta-based law firm Fisher & Phillips. we dont know where its going to be focused thisIn a jobsite raid, however, federal agents from ICE time, said Marisa Daz, immigrant worker justiceor Homeland Security Investigations would show program director for the New York City-basedup unannounced, Stevenson said. Immigration National Employment Law Project. agents can only enter a private property such as Construction, an industry that relies on foreign- a jobsite if they have a judicial warrant signed by born workers, could certainly be among thosea judge, according to the NILC.8 www.mrca.orgMidwest Roofer'