{"id":73912,"date":"2019-08-09T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T01:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-denies-ice-access-to-workforce-data\/"},"modified":"2019-08-10T01:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T01:40:03","slug":"new-mexico-denies-ice-access-to-workforce-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-denies-ice-access-to-workforce-data\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico denies ICE access to workforce data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5af328d4-7e4c-4db4-b7f0-852583ef9119&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Pedestrians return to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as they cross the Paso del Norte bridge and leave El Paso, Texas. A spokesman for the Texas Workforce Commission said access to that state\u2019s data is limited and meant for assisting in criminal investigations and some other law enforcement purposes.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Pedestrians return to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as they cross the Paso del Norte bridge and leave El Paso, Texas. A spokesman for the Texas Workforce Commission said access to that state\u2019s data is limited and meant for assisting in criminal investigations and some other law enforcement purposes.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>SANTA FE \u2013 New Mexico has denied repeated requests by federal immigration authorities for direct access to an employment-records database, the state\u2019s top labor official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>State Workforce Solutions Department Secretary Bill McCamley said he twice notified officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement this month that the state won\u2019t provide direct access to an unemployment database with extensive records about employees and employers throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>McCamley, an appointee of first-year Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, says the state will consider requests by federal immigration authorities for specific information about employers that include an explanation and justification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat ICE wanted was unlimited direct access to all employer data in the state and we\u2019re not going to do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, ICE officials in Mississippi conducted the largest immigration raid in a decade as agents fanned out to poultry plants and arrested nearly 700 people.<\/p>\n<p>Emails obtained by The Associated Press shows that an ICE investigative assistant based in El Paso, Texas, told several state workforce officials that access to a state employment database was needed to quickly fulfill requests by case agents. The ICE investigator sent emails to several state officials, observing that she already has access to a Texas Workforce Commission database.<\/p>\n<p>An ICE spokeswoman had no immediate comment, and the investigative assistant did not return calls.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Texas Workforce Commission said access to that state\u2019s data is limited and meant for assisting in criminal investigations and some other law enforcement purposes. The data includes information related to wage records, unemployment benefits and some employer information.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, McCamley also expressed broader misgivings about ICE workplace enforcement tactics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know why ICE wants this data \u2013 you saw it yesterday in Mississippi when ICE ripped a bunch of people away from their children on the first day of school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor\u2019s office seeks explanation and justification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,904],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-immigration"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73912"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}