Thread: Two immigration proposals won`t make AZ ballot

Jul 2, 1:09 PM EDT


Two immigration proposals won't make AZ ballot



PHOENIX (AP) -- Advocates for tougher immigration enforcement in Arizona say they haven't gathered enough petition signatures to put proposals on employer sanctions and police immigration policies on the November ballot.

One of the measures would have toughened Arizona's employer sanctions law by revoking the business licenses of first-time violators. Under current law, employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants face suspension on a first offense and revocation on their second.

The other measure would have barred local police agencies from restricting the enforcement of federal immigration laws. It also would have made illegal immigrants who enter Arizona subject to prosecution for trespassing.

Backers of another proposed ballot measure, which would make business-friendly changes to the employer sanctions law, handed in petition signatures Tuesday.

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Petitions filed for Stop Illegal Hiring initiative
Leaders of an initiative campaign seeking to change Arizona's employer-sanctions law filed petitions Tuesday to put their measure on the November ballot. The Stop Illegal Hiring initiative, primarily bankrolled by the business group Wake Up Arizona!, aims to offer more protections for businesses that come under prosecution, while targeting the pay-in-cash labor market and identity theft. The campaign turned in more than 284,000 signatures to the Secretary of State's Office, substantially more than the 153,365 that need to be certified before the measure can head to the ballot. The initiative gives law-enforcement officers "tools that they need to go after the root causes of illegal immigration, to go after scurrilous employers who take advantage of a broken illegal-immigration system, while still protecting innocent jobs in the state of Arizona," campaign chairman Andrew Pacheco said at a Capitol news conference. op Illegal Hiring is one of two competing initiatives prompted by last year's enactment of a state law that punishes businesses for knowingly employing illegal workers and requires employers to use E-Verify, an online program that checks the work eligibility of new hires. Like the current Fair and Legal Employment Act, Pacheco's initiative would allow two violations before businesses lose their license. But it would remove the requirement for employers to use E-Verify and would not allow anonymous complaints.

"The Stop Illegal Hiring initiative, primarily bankrolled by the business group Wake Up Arizona!, aims to offer more protections for businesses that come under prosecution, while targeting the pay-in-cash labor market and identity theft. The campaign turned in more than 284,000 signatures to the Secretary of State's Office, substantially more than the 153,365 that need to be certified before the measure can head to the ballot. The initiative gives law-enforcement officers "tools that they need to go after the root causes of illegal immigration, to go after scurrilous employers who take advantage of a broken illegal-immigration system, while still protecting innocent jobs in the state of Arizona," campaign chairman Andrew Pacheco said at a Capitol news conference. op Illegal Hiring is one of two competing initiatives prompted by last year's enactment of a state law that punishes businesses for knowingly employing illegal workers and requires employers to use E-Verify, an online program that checks the work eligibility of new hires. Like the current Fair and Legal Employment Act, Pacheco's initiative would allow two violations before businesses lose their license."

The Stop Illegal Hiring initiative, primarily bankrolled by the business group Wake Up Arizona

*****************it would remove the requirement for employers to use E-Verify and would not allow anonymous complaints. *************************
Always read the fine print.

VOTE IT DOWN - DON'T ALLOW BUSINESSES THE FREEDOM TO HIRE ILLEGALS!!!