Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is promising to toughen immigration enforcement. The New York Times reports the federal government is planning to provide stronger enforcement of immigration laws.

The new effort focuses on a more efficient system to check ID documents for citizenship and immigration status so that employers would not continue to hire illegals.

The specifics are vague but the report speculates that a new checking system is in the works, although it promises that it will be a few years before it is in operation because the computers could not handle the load if the current voluntary system were made compulsory.