For Every Wrong a Remedy...but Not for the Honest Worker and Contractor

American Thinker ^ | July 16, 2016 | Laurence A. Elgin

[AmericanVictory]

During the latter years of the last century, Congress enacted reforms to the federal immigration law. The part of this enactment with which, in light of the above, everyone should be concerned is now in the United States Code at Section 1324a(h)(2), where it mandates the federal pre-emption of:

... any State or local law imposing civil or criminal sanctions (other than through licensing and similar laws) upon those who employ, or recruit or refer for a fee for employment, unauthorized aliens.

This provision flagrantly robs the American workers and businesses injured by the use of illegal alien workers of any remedy for the wrongs perpetrated against them against those entities that wrong them as private citizens. They may not take to court those who choose to wrong them. They must be dependent only upon what the present occupant of the Oval Office chooses to do by way of public enforcement through federal agencies.

[AmericanVictory]

An effective way to shut down the free labor express and stop illegals at no taxpayer cost.Trump should advocate.

[bioqubit]

this is a less than perfect policy, put simply. Enforcement of what you propose, while obvious, sensible and logical, will crash on the rocks of political correctness, La Raza, and every other demented group that chooses to push back. — We see too many examples where those in power either ignore or work against the popular will.

[AmericanVictory]

You are right, of course, but isn’t this election about changing that climate?

[Albion Wilde]

Let us suppose, for example, that a leaf were taken from Teddy Roosevelt and, modeled on the antitrust laws, those wronged were given the right to go into court and sue the employers who wrong them and those who also wrong them by providing the illegal aliens who harm the wronged Americans to the employers, and sue for treble damages and attorney fees and expenses, it would dry up the problem in a few years as the employers and conveyors of illegal aliens faced the exposure to such liability.

Any and all remedies! As you note, there can be complementary measures in addition to the wall-building solution. Certainly there should be a package of interactive remedies put in place and vigorously enforced by the new DOJ and INS so that many loopholes are proactively plugged even as Wall plans are underway, beginning with Trump's accession in 2017.