Thread: New Denver Law Aims to Ensure Pay for Illegals

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... ome-nation
Jan 3, 2006

New Denver Law Aims to Ensure Pay for Immigrant Day Laborers

The measure is the third city ordinance in the U.S. to criminalize nonpayment of wages. It targets employers who shortchange workers.
By Nicholas Riccardi, Times Staff Writer


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Now the police can get involved. In an effort to protect largely immigrant day laborers from fraud, Denver has become the third city in the country to make nonpayment of wages a crime.

Now my question. When an Illegal goes into a Hospital and recieves services and doesn't pay. Then is that not like stealing also.

The thing is why aren't those who are hiring the ilelgals in the first place not being sent to jail for breaking federal law? Also why isn't the illegal immigrant arrested and deported? This is just insanity running rampant. First you have someone who breaks the law by comming into this country illegally. Then someone else. breaks the law by hiring someone that is in this country illegally. Next you have the person who is illegally here saying that the person who hired him illegally has broken the law by not paying him. Finally the person who illelgally hired the person illegally here is being brought to "justice" by having to pay the person his wages although the whold thing happened illegally.
To end the law breaking employer gets in trouble and all the illegal immigrant gets is his money. No arrest, no deportation. Nothing.
I realize that this is wordy but I did it to emphasize the fact the whole thing was ILLEGAL!!!!!!! no matter how you slice the bread.

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGN ... 89c01ca7bf

Lawmakers propose new measures aimed at illegal aliens
by: Adam Schrager 9NEWS Reporter
posted by: Dan Werner Web producer
Created: 1/4/2006 11:59 AM MST - Updated: 1/4/2006 6:18 PM MST


DENVER - Colorado state lawmakers are expected to once again debate the topic of immigration when they come back to work next week.

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9News Reporter Adam Schrager says an immigration debate is looming. 4 p.m. January 4, 2006.

Among the proposals that will be discussed include a measure to forbid state and local governments from awarding contracts to companies which employ illegal workers.

Another measure would train police to spot people who are in the country illegally during routine law enforcement stops. Yet, one more plan seeks to cut off workers compensation payments to non-American citizens.

"The time for talking about this issue is now over," said Rep. David Schultheis (R-Colorado Springs). "The time to act is now."

Schultheis wants Colorado to follow Florida's lead by requiring local police departments to receive training from federal immigration officials about how to detect and detain illegal immigrants. The Colorado Springs Republican, who traveled to Arizona last year to study conditions on the U.S.-Mexico border, acknowledged the plan would be an unfunded mandate on local departments who would be required to pick up the costs of any additional training and/or jail inmates. "It would be an unfunded mandate," he said. "What's wrong with that?"

Another proposal seeks to require all school districts to collect citizen information from all K-12 students when they enroll.

House Speaker Andrew Romanoff said he hoped the debate would shift from "demagoguery" to "actual deliberation. Less fear and fiction and more fact." Romanoff said he favors a plan to require all students graduating from Colorado high schools to be competent in English. "I believe every kid who graduates from high school in Colorado ought to read and write and speak English," he said. "That seems to be a reasonable demand to make of high school graduation."

Critics complimented Romanoff's plan but wondered aloud what it had to do with illegal immigration.

"I don't get that. It doesn't solve an illegal immigration problem," said Sen. Greg Brophy (R-Wray). "While a laudable goal and something I agree with, I don't think that solves the problem of illegal immigration."

State lawmakers return to work on January 11.