[Kevmo]

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Whenever an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or something similar, here’s what I recommend:
What can we do about it? Here’s my standard post.

RICO —Citizen Recourse

Private persons and entities may initiate civil suits to obtain injunctions and treble damages against enterprises that conspire to or actually violate federal alien smuggling, harboring, or document fraud statutes, under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO). The pattern of racketeering activity is defined as commission of two or more of the listed crimes. A RICO enterprise can be any individual legal entity, or a group of individuals who are not a legal entity but are associated in fact, and can include nonprofit associations.

Here’s what I’ve been pushing: it’s time to file Racketeering, Influencing, and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuits.

RICO lawyers could turn it around in a few years and MAKE MONEY at the same time. I’m surprised they haven’t done it already.

In the absence of enforcement, we can get the word out in the meantime that there is money to be made in filing RICO lawsuits against employers who hire illegal aliens like this jerk.

Employers would have no trouble shutting down the border if they could get sued by someone under the RICO statutes for hiring these people in the first place. The next time an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or somesuch thing, I’m going to point out that the victim’s family might be able to seek compensation from the employer under these statutes in the hopes that it would catch on. If this did catch on, would see such a swift backlash against illegal immigration that no employer would go near these people and they’ll all simply want to go back home.

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So you are saying that private citizens can initiate civil RICO suits?

It sounds very interesting and plausible.

Has anyone done this yet?

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I found this:

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Pleading Civil RICO (PDF)

And this:

Overview of Civil RICO ('Lectric Law Library)

Is the underlying theory that, because the employer hired illegal aliens in violation of the law and continuously employed them over a period of time, the employer was engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise?

And the plaintiff is saying that they were harmed by the employee, who would not have been here had the employer not been paying him?

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You got me excited!

Using RICO laws to slow down illegal immigration

Newt Gingrich is wrong about illegal immigrants (by an attorney specializing in civil RICO suits against employers of illegal aliens)

The Broad Reach of Civil RICO: Analyzing Plaintiffs’ Claims for Employer Violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act (Civil RICO suited resulted in largest immigration raid in US history in Postville, Iowa)