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    Contractor pushes to make Ore. county legal worker zone

    Contractor pushes to make Ore. county legal worker zone

    07/29/2007

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    A local contractor says he wants voters to put a stop to businesses hiring illegal immigrants by declaring Columbia County a "legal workers only" zone.

    "Remove their ability to get jobs, and the problem stops," said Wayne Mayo, a St. Helens remodeling contractor. "It's a matter of local justice. Local law."

    Mayo wants bright 4-by-8-foot signs reading, "Legal Workers Only," to be posted across the county. The signs would list contact information for the sheriff's department and federal immigration agents.

    His plan asks that the local law enforcement respond to complaints by inspecting job sites and fining those out of compliance. If signs are not displayed, fines of $1,000 a week would be imposed.

    A contractor caught hiring illegal workers would face a $15,000 building permit spike per home. Business licenses and rental licenses of those who hire or rent to illegal immigrants could be suspended.

    Mayo took his proposal to the Columbia County Board of Commissioners, who told him this week that the county was not equipped to enforce it.

    So Mayo plans to let voters decide. He said he will collect the 1,300 valid signatures necessary and try to put the measure on the ballot in November or March.

    Such a move would align Columbia County with communities nationwide that have responded to lack of action by Congress by approving local ordinances to displace illegal immigrants.

    But it would also set the stage for legal challenges, as other communities have seen.

    Up to 90 communities have passed or are considering local laws involving illegal immigrants, including some that would offer sanctuary or special identification cards for illegal workers, said David Adams, chief financial officer for Lookout Services, a company that tracks the issue.

    Mayo's idea is closer to one in Hazleton, Pa., that would punish employers and landlords who do business with illegal immigrants. The city became a model for other communities as one of the first to tackle illegal immigration.

    However, a federal judge last Thursday struck down the Hazleton ordinance as unconstitutional, and civil liberties advocates say the ruling shows that such proposals face a daunting legal test.

    "They've had no success in convincing the court that these type of measures are constitutional," said Omar Jadwat, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrant Rights Project.

    Those who choose to try "are putting themselves and their cities in peril," Jadwat said.

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    Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com

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    The ACLU would never let that happen.
    Calderon was absolutely right when he said...."Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico".

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    It is already against the law to hire illegals, Hazelton lost because they were going after landlords. I think someone should sue the ACLU because it is already a law to aid and abett an illegal, just why is no one doing this, maybe the ACLU would stop the lawsuits if people start going after them!!


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    New Haven, Conn. needs to be SUED, as a test case, for aiding and abetting. To me, it's cut and dried, they have broken federal law!! If a community breaks federal law by punishing illegals, then they for sure break federal law by aiding and abetting. It cuts BOTH WAYS!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gofer
    New Haven, Conn. needs to be SUED, as a test case, for aiding and abetting. To me, it's cut and dried, they have broken federal law!! If a community breaks federal law by punishing illegals, then they for sure break federal law by aiding and abetting. It cuts BOTH WAYS!!
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    I LOVE the idea of sueing the ACLU....they are supposed to be HELPING the American....not stepping on us...seriously...can someone do this????????????

    MORE POWER to the CONTRACTOR....If the meassure goes thru a legal election of the people....can the ACLU and the govt squish it????????
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    Those who choose to try "are putting themselves and their cities in peril," Jadwat said.
    ...this sounds to me like a direct threat or, at the least, a thinly veiled threat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by grandmasmad
    I LOVE the idea of sueing the ACLU....they are supposed to be HELPING the American....not stepping on us...seriously...can someone do this????????????

    MORE POWER to the CONTRACTOR....If the meassure goes thru a legal election of the people....can the ACLU and the govt squish it????????

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