welcome back the familiar shoemaker rockport with subsidiaries in the u.s. and canada has filed for bankruptcy the company based in newton massachusetts filed for chapter eleven protections in the us bankruptcy court for delaware is entered into an asset purchase agreement with an affiliate of charles bank equity fund which will play the role of stalking horse better in the eventual sale process to be supervised by the court the purchase agreement covers rockport global wholesale assets online retail and brick and mortar stores in europe and asia charles bank will get a first choice on whether to buy rock ports north american store locations rockport also reporter will keep stores open during the bankruptcy proceedings. immigration audit of employers in the us are increasing according to immigration and customs enforcement or ice the agency said on monday that they began office of nearly twenty three hundred employers between last october and this may compared to less than four thousand nine hundred in the full preceeding year workplace arrests were also to