Thread: How can companies hire illegal aliens AND be Bonded-legally?

Don't these companies that hire the illegals, AND claim to be bonded, have to do a background check on their illegal employess? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of being bonded? What about when the illegals do damage to homeowners' property or commit criminal acts?

Am I wrong?

Isn't there a legal issue here?

Lots of companies do the SS# checks and if it comes back as a valid number, then the company has done what it needs to do. Sure it's the bare minimum but that's all they are required to do. Morally, that's another issue and covered by a higher power.

Background check on a Mexican? Who in the Mexican government will tell us about any criminal activity of their newest success stories who are going to live the American Dream? They apply with so many different names, addresses and birth dates, how can they be tracked once in our country?

Quite the mess, huh?

There are several legal issues that are not being enforced in this aspect.

An officer of the Houston Police Department explained to me, personally, that "undocumented workers" were protected by law (not sure how) and that no legal enforcement could be acted upon them as long as they were working.

Ironically, if the authorities were to discover child porn or a kilo of cocaine at my home (which I would never have, just an example), they would have no hesitation to show up at my office, put me in handcuffs, and walk me off the property to a police car in front of all my co-workers.

Another strike against me for having a state issued identification card.

An officer of the Houston Police Department explained to me, personally, that "undocumented workers" were protected by law (not sure how) and that no legal enforcement could be acted upon them as long as they were working.

Don't tell that to the ICE agents that arrested over a thousand illegals in the IFCO raids or the recent raid in Kentucky. I guess government agents don't know what the law is.

Houston is a sanctuary city, where the city council and mayor have ordered the police to not report illegal aliens to the federal authorities, even if they've committed a crime.

I'm glad I don't live in Houston.

This is very simple........simply paid off of the books and that's that!

No muss & no fuss.

EXCEPT, now, LOL, the ACLU and other groups are beginning to "sue" the employers over injuries to the Illegals
AND THEY'RE WINNING

Originally Posted by WavTek

Houston is a sanctuary city, where the city council and mayor have ordered the police to not report illegal aliens to the federal authorities, even if they've committed a crime.

I'm glad I don't live in Houston.

Do not get me started on HPD. They are so corrupt, it is beyond pathetic. It irks me to no end to see police officers hiding under a freeway underpass stopping cars in the U-Turn lane for expired tags. Meanwhile, 50+ illegal aliens are directly across the street loitering on public and private property trying to wave down every truck that passes with hopes of getting hired illegally for a day.

I think there should be a law against soliciting illegal work, kinda like soliciting prostitution. There should be cops dressed in scrubs waving down trucks and arresting contractors for soliciting undocumented work. Leave the tax-paying citizens alone for a change

I like the buisness proveing that the illegals have been working for them
so many years for them to get amnesty.Isn't that implying guilt?

I think it is probably true that HPD officers can do nothing. Many cities have a policy of not enforcing anything against illegals.

Some because of wrongheaded, touchy feely people - some cities because it has become too very expensive to try to hold them for INS.

As for the rounding up of IFCO - haven't we realized yet that was show and tell. Most of those workers were out the door before the agents got through with the paperwork.

A year of investigation and they only rounded up that many - give me a break.

The only investigation was to try to find an employer that hadn't 'paid up'. So who better than a foreign company -

I was thinking that it is illegal for these illegal workers to step foot on a landowners property under the pretense of being bonded workers?

The company did no background checks on these people (as they would if they are actually bonded) and if they are endangering the property owners where they work or the neighborhood they're working in by being murderers, rapists, paedophiles, ID thieves, burglars, isn't that grounds for legal action against the employer?

The legal action is moot if the employer is NOT brought up on charges for hiring ILLEGALS.

It goes right back to enforcing the existing law.

*** should the bond company find out that an employer is hiring Illegals that might be reason to cancel the bond.

However, they don't check, from what I understand.
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