State Representative Wants to Keep Close Watch on Illegal Immigrants

Posted: March 25, 2008 10:06 AM PDT


A local State Representative wants to keep a closer watch on illegal immigrants.

Representative Rickey Hardy says illegals are taking away jobs from local citizens. He's proposing illegal immigrants be prohibited from obtaining driver's licenses, ID cards and using public hospitals.

Hardy would also like to see employers fined $250,000 for hiring an illegal.

One local contractor we spoke to says he turns down illegals and then they take his business.

Contractor Ronald Broussard says "I don't have a problem with them coming as long as they are legal and not taking food off the local's table where we can't pay the bills."

Broussard tells Eyewitness News between five and seven people approach him each week about work but he turns them away because they usually don't have the legal documents required.

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