According to GAO. of the employers who knew about IRCA. 20 percent did not understand its major provisions. The less information employers have. the more likely they are to play it safe by not hiring people who look or sound foreign to them. When Congress passed IRCA. we created the Office for Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices [OSCI to conduct education and enforcement activities under law. To date the OSC has not had the resources to do its job fully. The OSC has been charged with providing educational material and holding business group seminars. but because of its small budget it has been unable to do so. The single public service announcement on discrimination was funded separately by the Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS]. because it was too expensive for the OSC. OSC staff have indicated that they may have to cut into the meager $100.000 allotted for educational purposes within their 1990 budget in order to investigate growing discrimination claims. Clearly. additional funding is needed expressly for the purpose of outreach.
Identified stereotypes
Employers are more likely to discriminate against people who look or sound foreign to them.