(WI) Dairy farmers worry that proposed E-Verify law will kill industry - (need illegal laborers).

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 7/31/2011 | Georgia Pabst

[sbMKE]

I plan to personally file complaints against the farmers featured in this article - in Wisconsin and with the Feds.

Care to join me?

[RWGinger]

yes I will and hopefully freepers as well
is all the information we need to file a complaint in the article?
Great idea

[JoeFromSidney]

Yes, the problem here is the desire to use illegal aliens (I refuse to call them "immigrants") because they'll work for substandard wages.

However, there's another issue. Each individual farmer probably needs only a few workers. Handling the e-verify system would probably run his costs up. There might well be a market for labor contractors who would do the e-verify thing and certify workers to farmers. That would ease the burden on the farmer, and make the process more efficient. It would also make it easier for the Feds to police the system.

[sbMKE]

E-verify is an online system where you enter an applicant’s name, date of birth, address and social security number. Once it’s entered, you hit submit and it tells you if you have valid and matching information or not.

These people are using the “too time consuming” excuse to defend breaking the law.

I’m sure they also pay cash and don’t withhold taxes - facilitating tax fraud as these “immigrants” are then eligible for EITC tax refunds because they don’t earn enough to be taxed.

These farmers should be in prison.

[moonshinner_09]

So farmer is trying to make his employment problem the tax payers problem. How much sense does it make to say my business can only make me money, if I may continue to use illegal workers ?