Homeland Security shifts focus to employers

Stepping into the political minefield of immigration reform, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano soon will direct federal agents to focus more on arresting and prosecuting American employers than the illegal laborers who sneak into the country to work for them, department officials said Monday.

The shift in emphasis will be outlined in revamped field guidelines issued to agents of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, as early as this week, several officials familiar with the change said.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-raids31-2009mar31,0,665787.storyBy Josh Meyer and Anna Gorman — Los Angeles Times