applicant's intentions as well as whether the individual presenting himself for admission is the valid holder of the documentation presented. 4. Actions Within Countries a. Each embassy with visa fraud problems should enlist the host country's political cooperation. This might b. Development projects aimed at areas that have been identified as areas of out-migration. Host country cooperation in improving the Licensing of travel agents and others who traffic in fraudulent documents. Vigorous prosecution of fraud cases involving the assigning of indigenous personnel to such cases. The U. S. Information Service should sensitize the indigenous populace to the problems of illegal immigration and the unscrupulous persons who visit hardship on their victims. Specifically, an organized campaign should be developed to: C. Inform the press of widespread abuses of persons who seek middlemen in an effort to Encourage academics to conduct research on the causes of migration within the country The Immigration and Naturalization Service with the State Department should take steps to establish closer liaison with the immigration authorities of other countries to gain better use of departure control systems including exchange of information to detect fraudulent documents or imposters. Internal Revenue Service Other cooperative efforts are already underway. The Internal Revenue Service is presently conducting two programs in the illegal alien area. One program is aimed at apprehended illegal aliens and the other is aimed at the employers of illegal aliens. 1. Apprehended Illegal Aliens 90 Day Test The test program which ran from March 4, 1974 to June 7, 1974, was conducted in San Diego, Dallas, Chicago, and New York City, in conjunction with INS. This test provided that for 90 days, one Revenue Officer or one Revenue Representative in each of the participating districts would spend an entire workday at the local INS Since this test indicated a high frequency of noncompliance among apprehended illegal aliens, though of relatively modest amounts (about $140) on the average, an on-going program was developed. The new program, with basically the same guidelines as the test, was implemented on April 12, 1976, in the 15 cities where INS processes the highest volume of illegal aliens. They are: Chicago, Illinois; Chula Vista, California; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; El Centro, California; El Paso, Texas; Miami, Florida; Newark, New Jersey; New Orleans, Louisiana; New York, New York; San Antonio, Texas; Seattle, Washington; Swanton, Vermont; Washington, D. C.; and San Francisco, California. 2. Employers of Illegal Aliens Another test began on October 30, 1975 and will be completed by June 30, 1976. It is being conducted in seven areas: Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Manhattan, Cleveland, and Jacksonville. With the joint cooperation of IRS, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA), it involves securing the payment of withholding taxes by employers of illegal aliens. Where a common employer is shown for a specified number of employees (five in some districts, two in others) in INS apprehension records, the records will be forwarded to the participating IRS district office. IRS will determine whether the employer has filed Form 941, employer's quarterly report. If no return has been filed, a revenue officer calls on the employer to ensure that all federal tax obligations have been and are being met by the employer. If a return has been filed, a "request for social security earnings information" will be forwarded to SSA and one of the following procedures will be completed: a. If the alien's wages were properly recorded, the case will be closed. b. If the wages were not reported, the case will be referred to the Audit Division for possible field contact by an agent for eventual audit if warranted. If the wages were under-reported and/or a possibility of fraud exists, the case will be forwarded to the Intelligence Division for possible field contact by a special agent. Statistics for this test have not been compiled at this time. However, should the statistics for the test prove to be encouraging, consideration would be given to continuing this program on an expanded basis. Department of Labor Since the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, the Department of Labor has been quite successful in developing a relatively high level of compliance in the area of wage and hour enforcement. In fact, it represents one of the government's most successful regulation attempts. However, a rather serious problem of backlogs has developed in the last two years for a number of the laws that are administered by the Wage and Hour Division partially due to the passage of a number of new pieces of legislation since 1960, which extend the Department of Labor's responsibilities. been coupled with a stable budgetary situation yielding only minimal increases in compliance investigators for wage and hour enforcement over the past fifteen years or so. This has However, |