Illegal immigrant wins back pay but faces deportation

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 5/11/06 | AP

[P-40]

Many illegal immigrants put up with unfair working conditions and wages

That is why employers hire them too.

[GOPologist]

Is there any item in our Constitution that says that an illegal, criminal, immigrant can win in our courts of law?

[Dems_R_Losers]

The restaurant should have had to pay the back wages to the state labor department so it can do more enforcement, in addition to fines and confiscation of the illegals' property. I agree that enforcement like this would help immensely. These businesses will not clamor to hire illegals if they have to pay them minimum wage and have workers' comp - especially in California, where the state minimum wage is above national and workers' comp is astronomically expensive.

[Gondring]

That's one way to make employers think twice before they hire illegals at low wages. I actually agree with this back pay if deportation follows.

So was the employer forced to pay back taxes on the back pay? If not, why would this ruling eliminate the incentive for breaking the law? Wouldn't a better and more consistent response be to bar the back pay, and make the employer pay a fine for also breaking the law?

[freedumb2003]

To walk into a US Court while being a criminal is something that only would happen here.

In most countries, illegals are (properly) barred from using the civil court system.

The effrontery is astounding.

[sgtbono2002]

They can live high on the Hog for 10 years in Mexico with $22,000 dollars. When it runs out they will be back. All they have to do is walk across.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Many illegal immigrants put up with unfair working conditions and wages because they fear retaliation, immigration experts said.

The same Experts that should be enforcing the laws instead of pandering to lawbreakers or the same experts that are lawbreakers themselves for enticing illegals to stay where they are not wanted if they are illegal ?

[Osage Orange]

Somebody tell me that Si Senor Taqueria now is OUT OF BUSINESS....for hiring illegal aliens.

Anyone?

[stopem]

"Cano, who has a 4-month-old son, fears she will also be forced to leave the country

We should be so lucky!

[dhs12345]

...and Americans wont do the jobs that illegals are willing to do... because conditions are crap and wages are substandard.

And the employer has to pay FICA and carry insurance for legal Americans. Not so for illegals. Even if the salaries are the same, legal Americans are more expensive to hire.

[stylin19a]

her husband was arrested in December and taken to an Arizona immigration jail. He has since been released but must leave the country, immigration officials said.

Released ? like he's waiting around to be deported....

[Gondring]

Standard blackmail. You're illegal, you take a job, you're employer figures out you're illegal, and you are their slave because they can have you deported.

Yeah, it's like when I took that job with this "Family"...and then I couldn't stop committing crimes wit' dem, or else!

I feel real sorry for criminals. Yeah, I do.

[Vigilanteman]

I'd go a step further and set up consular courts in countries with large supplies of illegal immigrants. Plantiffs would have to return to their country of origin to collect judgements, even if rendered by a U.S. court. Those who did not would forfeit the judgement with collection enforced by the consular court and proceeds used to sustain the system. There would be no need for deportation proceedings when there was a princely sum waiting back home in Mexico.

Of course, if the plantiff had put their time to good use (like learnine English and paying taxes), nothing would prevent them from using their newfound fortune to reapply for legal entry.

[Yogafist]

Additionally, she should be required to pay for her pregnancy and birth. I am betting the tax payers picked up the tab on that.

[BunnySlippers]

The one that got me was the illegal in CA who sued, and got, worker's compensation.

[EagleUSA]

"liberal" and "insanity" is redundant
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That is true -- the liberal element in our society is pulling us down faster than we can keep track...

[Quick1]

I guess I don't mind employers having to pay the penalties for the workers they hired. It's not like it's extremely difficult to figure out if someone is illegal or not. In fact, both of the employers should have had to pay stiff fines.

[Aquatica 2020]

She should be deported along with her anchor baby. I am sure someone that knew her at her previous job reported her and rightfully so. Why should she be rewarded when she came to this country illegally.

[John Jorsett]

Wait a minute. La Migra will actually do something when an illegal is reported? When did this start happening? I thought they pretty much ignored reports these days. How about we all start reporting illegals?

[muawiyah]

Naw, the guys who hired these people should be confined to airless dungeons and forced to defecate into holes bored into the floor.

The illegals should also be forced to go home.