Article: Feds threaten more raids on employers: Immigration lawyers see political motives.

Byline: Frank James

Apr. 21--WASHINGTON -- A day after federal agents arrested 1,187 people on illegal-immigration charges in the nation's largest-ever work-site enforcement action, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Thursday warned of an intensified campaign to target employers whose businesses rely on large numbers of undocumented workers. But there was suspicion among some immigration lawyers that the crackdown was more a Bush administration response to criticism that for years it had done too little work-site enforcement. They questioned whether the administration would follow through with the new get-tough approach.

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