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Illegal immigration opponent says he accidentally hired illegals
http://www.newsday.com PM EDT, October 13, 2007
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Single page view Reprints Reader feedback Text size: BOGOTA, N.J. (AP) _ Borough Mayor Steve Lonegan, an outspoken foe of illegal immigration, admits he accidentally hired two men whom authorities say were in the U.S. illegally.

Bogota's Republican mayor says he enlisted the men last Monday to help assemble political signs in the garage of a vacant home he owns in the borough.

Lonegan told The Record of Bergen County that the men told him they had proper documentation when they approached his taxpayer advocacy organization, Americans for Prosperity, looking for work.
According to Lonegan, he dropped the men at the house before going to retrieve working papers for them to fill out. However, they were gone when he returned.

"It was the mystery of the week," Lonegan said told the newspaper for Saturday's editions.

Lonegan says it was only days later, when The Record contacted him, that he found out police had gone to the house after someone called police and reported that two Hispanic men walking through the home.

One of the men was charged with a disorderly persons violation because the name he gave didn't match the Mexican identification card he had with him, according to police. The other man, who wasn't charged, told police they were in the U.S. illegally, and that a person he refused to identify had hired them to work on the signs for $80.

Lonegan said he usually hires temporary workers from an area agency, Express Personnel. However, when the two men came asking for work, he had no problem hiring them as long as they were legal.

"If I have work, and there are two guys willing to do the work, and they have papers, that's fine," Lonegan said.

An unsuccessful 2005 Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lonegan has been a frequent critic of illegal immigration.

He once tried unsuccessfully to have McDonald's remove a Spanish-language billboard in Bogota that advertised iced coffee, and also sought to designate English as the town's official language, a move that was rebuffed by courts.

Lonegan told The Record that his accidental hiring of the two men shows how difficult it can be for an employer to verify the status of a worker, and that any controversy over the matter is "absurd."

Some local critics disagreed.

Among them were Charles Severino, the vice president of the borough school board.

"He wants to deputize the police to go after (illegal immigrants) and then he's hiring them? I think that's ironic," Severino said.

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Copyright © 2007, The Associated Press

I wouldn't worry too much about this situation. Every time we go out to restaurants or stay at hotels, in many cases we are indirectly supporting illegal immigration. (because of illegals working there).

That's part of the reason some people rarely go to restaurants now.

Ostrich

Pretty strange.

Three Things to Ponder:

1.Cows
2.The Constitution
3.The Ten Commandments

Cows
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can
track a single cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall
where she sleeps, in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to
their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens
wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

The Constitution
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq Why don't we
just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has
worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.

The Ten Commandments
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a
courthouse is this: You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not
Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers,
judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment

Originally Posted by lddave1443

Three Things to Ponder:

1.Cows
2.The Constitution
3.The Ten Commandments

Cows
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can
track a single cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall
where she sleeps, in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to
their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens
wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

The Constitution
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq Why don't we
just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has
worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.

The Ten Commandments
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a
courthouse is this: You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not
Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers,
judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment

Thats one way to look at it !!!

It sure took them a long time to figure out that there is Salmonella in produce from Mexico.

Them Cows were easier to find.

Dixie

The system of a tracking device found the cow. But our government since 1986 did not feel the need to check I-9 forms of undocumented immigrants working collected by employers.

And Iraq doesn't want our Constitutional Stakehold. The people might speech out.

And the Ten Commandments

It creates a hostile work environment

Truth is too painful to tolerate. Often times a lie will make the piece fit in the puzzle better.