SEIU helps illegal aliens “game” our system: These thugs couldn’t care less about America

“….The Service Employee International Union (SEIU) has been carrying out an effective program to aid and abet the sneaky illegal aliens streaming into our country to steal the jobs of its own members.

On Monday the results of an audit, conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a large Minnesota firm were leased and they caught the SEIU red handed. The audit focused on the employees of Harvard Maintenance Inc. a national corporation that offers janitorial services.

The ICE audit has brought about the firing of 240 illegal aliens who had worked for Harvard with the full cooperation of Local 26 of the SEIU.

In a totally disingenuous move no doubt suggested by the SEIU, Harvard Maintenance has given the illegal alien employees ninety days to “rectify irregularities in their employment eligibility documents” before their scheduled terminations were to become effective.

Ninety days to rectify what? How can you become an American citizen in three months? This was nothing more than a trick to buy enough time to sneak new illegals into this company while banking that the ICE people will be too busy to come back and re-check the status of Harvard’s workers.

The Local 26 shakes its members down for an average of $36.75 per month in dues. That’s more than $154,000 a year from just one company’s members. The illegals were being forced to turn over around $9,000 a month, and the Local’s website brags of 5000 members, that’s $2,205,000 a year in collected dues.

Why would the thugs at the SEIU willing roll over and give that up? The union president who makes $97, 172 said, “Our community is traumatized…” The workers make about $29, 120, a third of what the “traumatized” president makes.

THIS JUST IN Here's one way to proceed against illegals.

In 1996, Congress expanded the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to include violations of federal immigration law.

1 While this expansion may not have received much publicity, it could potentially change the face of U.S. immigration law enforcement. Under the new RICO provisions, a violation of certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) meets the definition of racketeering activity, also known as a "predicate offense,"

2 and an entity that engages in a pattern of racketeering activity for financial gain can be held both criminally and civilly liable.

3 Among other things, the INA makes it unlawful to encourage illegal immigration or employ illegal aliens,

4 which violations were included as predicate offenses under RICO.

The 1996 law changes in the INA made hiring illegal aliens a predicate act of racketeering activity under RICO, but illegal hiring wasn’t the only violation of the INA made a predicate act. Other INA prohibitions made RICO predicate acts were encouraging or inducing illegal immigration, smuggling, and harboring illegal aliens.10 Together, these additions make the RICO Act potentially a very strong new tool in the hands of private parties against persons and companies that profit by violating U.S. immigration law.

Additionally, the RICO provision regarding the unlawful encouragement of illegal immigration could justify a suit against a private entity, such as a bank, that accepts foreign-issued identification cards that are only needed by illegal aliens. One example of this, of course, is the matricula consular issued by the Mexican consulates in the United States. Since both the supporters of the matricula and those who oppose its acceptance agree that only illegal aliens have need to rely on the card, acceptance of the card knowingly encourages illegal immigration. Part of the legislative intent of the RICO laws in general was to afford private citizens a remedy for lawbreaking when authorities normally charged with such enforcement became derelict in their duties.

For example, in a town in which political corruption and racketeering activity have combined to the detriment of law-abiding citizens and the rule of law, the RICO Act was intended to provide private citizens the ability to initiate court action to compel enforcement and respect for the law.

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