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Is Your Business Ready for Increased Immigration Enforcement?

Melissa Azallion
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents recently raided close to 100 7-Eleven stores across 17 states, demanding employment verification from managers in an attempt to crackdown on the employment of undocumented immigrants.  With the acting ICE Director saying late last year that employment audits would likely increase five-fold in 2018, our next guest says this could result in more prosecutions and higher fines for employers, including those throughout South Carolina.  Is your business ready?

Mike Switzer interviews Melissa Azallion, a business immigration attorney with the McNair Law Firm in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.