Please don't buy into such left-wing nonsense. Law enforcement is not the job of some guy who runs a meat packing factory, or other business. It is not his job to determine whether papers shown to him are counterfeit or not; or whether the social security numbers he is given by people he hires are legitimate. (I would agree that paying people "off the books" is an evasion of the law.) In today's AliceInWonderland environment though, he could probably be sued successfully for damages for not hiring someone who appears to be a Mexican if it would turn out that that person were here legally.
No. If the Law Enforcement folks know that the business owner has illegal aliens working for him, that means they know who the illegal aliens are. Let's deport them, and not criminalize businesses that need unskilled labor.
ML/NJ
Oh please. These companies know exactly what is going on. They advertize the jobs in Spanish language media, and everybody on the floor speaks Spanish. And they are located in states with traditionally almost no Hispanics. And they are the first to protest increased enforcement.
And yes, I really would like to see what “papers” they have on file. How many workers are using the same Social Security number? How many have valid drivers licenses from the state they are located in? Or are they accepting Consular Metricula cards?
Does that mean that gun dealers will also not be required to do a back ground check. If it is fair for one it is fair for the other.
Put the plant owners and the board of directors in jail, and make them pay personally all unpaid medical bills at the local hospitals for the past twenty years..
Can we at least criminalize businesses who willfully, knowingly, and will full knowledge and aforethought, recruit and hire illegal immigrants?
Those that pay their illegal immigrant employees slave-labor wages with the knowledge that they have no legal recourse whatsoever to challenge such abuse?