Thread: Miss. to Verify Worker Status Under Bill

Originally Posted by millere

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

I'm with you "MW" I am completely,BAFFLED.!!!!
Why is it so difficult just to enforce our existing laws?

It's called corruption. Our own leaders are refusing to obey our own laws so they have become our enemies. That is why we are seeing so many contradictions: "build the fence, but don't fund it", "criminal gangs and rapists cannot be arrested", "We will get everything solved in two years, but maybe not.", "It's your fault if you don't vote, but both choices are equally bad so why vote?", "Encourage illegal activity from Mexicans, arrest Americans who enforce laws"... On and on to a giant, putrid stinking mess.

DITTO!! i HEAR YA!!VERT SAD SITUATI0N

http://www.wdam.com/Global/story.asp?S=6188251

Bill would punish employers of illegals

March 6, 2007 04:12 PM PST




Companies in Mississippi that hire illegal immigrants would be prohibited from doing business here and could lose some incentives offered by the state for one year, under a bill passed Tuesday by the state Senate.

The proposal, which would also create a task force to study illegal workers, passed 37-7 after senators made changes to a House version that was approved last month. The two chambers have to resolve their differences before a bill can go to the governor.

Senate Labor Committee Chairman Terry Brown, R-Columbus, told senators "the original bill is real messed up because it's in conflict with federal law."

The amended version would penalize companies that get lucrative incentives to do business in Mississippi by stripping a prorated share of their incentives for one year, said Sen. Ralph Doxey, R-Holly Springs.

The bill also would create the Mississippi Employment Protection Task Force, a 13-member board that would study the status of national laws dealing with workers who are in the United States illegally.

Doxey said the task force would report back to the Legislature in 2008, and its findings would be incorporated in state immigrant-worker regulations in the future.

Sen. Gloria Williamson, D-Philadelphia, pointed out that the bill did not specify what agency would enforce the measure.

"What good is this bill?" she asked.