ICE raids lead to questions about Arizona's employment law
Arizona pushed for an employment verification system to prove legalization, but ICE raids at Zipps prove E-Verify has limits.
The Gaggle: An Arizona politics podcast · The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com
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Show Notes
In late January, Homeland Security agents raided 15 locations of Valley sports bar Zipps after receiving a tip 11 months beforehand that they were employing undocumented immigrants.
E-Verify was set up in 2008 to bar the demand for illegal workers, but in 2025, the Arizona Republic found that no state law enforcement agency is routinely looking for violations. Employers often ignored it.
This week on The Gaggle, a politics podcast by The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, we talk with someone from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that examines all layers of America's immigration system.
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