Thread: We must attack roots of immigration issues

Letter to Editor:

We must attack roots of immigration issues
08/26/2007
http://www.republicanherald.com/site/ne ... 0483&rfi=6

Now that the flawed and bad immigration amnesty bill was defeated in the United States Senate, it is high time we start dealing with the roots of our immigration problems or with the employers and companies that hire and profit from illegal immigrants labor.

What we must do now is to pass local, state and federal laws to make it a crime to hire illegal immigrants and to initiate heavy fines and punish businesses and companies that hire and profit from hiring illegals.

I would like to see proposed such heavy fines for any business caught and convicted of hiring these illegals as to be fined up to 30 percent of their monthly or quarterly profits, with the money going to the federal treasury to reimburse Medicare and Social Security for the funds that these illegals have already siphoned off.

Once these businesses and companies get the message and quit hiring these illegals there will be no more work or jobs for them and they will then hopefully pack up and go back to there they came from. This will be a step in the right direction to curtail and control illegal immigration and the illegals that continue to reside here and burden our economy and society for their own economic gains.

Al Eisner
Wheaton, Md.
Pottsville native

It already is illegal for employers to hire illegal workers. What we need are LEGAL documents workers to SUE THEIR EMPLOYERS who hire illegal undocumented workers.

From my previous post: There is a federal immigration law that states it is discrimination for an employer to favor the hiring of undocumented workers over documented workers. There is also recent case law in the 9th Circuit and others- that gives private individuals (legal documented workers) a cause of action against the employer under the RICO statutes. There have been successful class action suits against big companies for RICO violations for hiring undocumented workers rather than legal residents or citizens. Companies have appealed, and the 9th Circuit (and others) have upheld the RICO cause of action, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari, so the case law stands.

Bringing a civil suit under RICO and enforcing the immigration laws against employers privately $$$ may be what finally hits the employers where it counts- their bottom line.

I am an attorney...in California. If you want to enforce your rights as a documented worker who either was fired or didn't get hired in the first place, drop me a line.

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