Posted on 05/13/2005 5:34:35 PM PDT by Boston Blackie
New Ipswich Police Chief Garrett Chamberlain got a lot of publicity for his stand against illegal immigration. He charged an illegal alien from Mexico with criminal trespass after police found the man with false identification papers and the federal authorities declined to act.
What hasn't gotten much publicity is a recent decision from the New Hampshire Supreme Court involving illegal aliens. It allows illegal immigrants who are injured while working in the state to sue their employers and recover lost earnings, which is lawyer-speak for the amount of money they would have earned had they not been injured. This means that, at the same time Chamberlain and others were working to close the borders to illegal immigrants, the state Supreme Court was flinging open the courthouse doors.
(Excerpt) Read more at cmonitor.com ...
Logic lost.
This decision might be not so bad if it deters companies from employing illegals who can now take advanatge of the "law" to sue employers based on real or imagined injury. The difficulty is that this might also be interpreted as a good reason for a mass amnesty......
Why isn't the act of forging identity papers a felony?...
Homeland Security aka border patrol should push to make
the illegal invasion of the United States of America
whose borders they are sworn to protect...A felony
As should refusal to protect our borders by the agents
who have sworn to protect them...also..be a felony level crime.
imo
Why isn't the act of forging identity papers a felony?...
Homeland Security aka border patrol should push to make
the illegal invasion of the United States of America
whose borders they are sworn to protect...A felony
As should refusal to protect our borders by the agents
who have sworn to protect them...also..be a felony level crime.
imo
Double Bump
Fine. Maybe it will finally dawn on the employer community, who are enabling this whole mess by hiring illegals, that illegals ARE a real cost on their insurance and taxes and payroll, not imported slaves.
Sorry, but it is the employers who create the strongest incentive to come here, NOT government services (although, those help).
Non-fakeable ID and Picture/thumbprint Social Security cards are inexpensive first step.
He charged an illegal alien from Mexico with criminal trespass after police found the man with false identification papers and the federal authorities declined to act.
Why isn't the act of forging identity papers a felony?...
it is...
if YOU do it.
lotsa crimes illegals commit, aren't.
but if'ns you do em, YOU are going to the big house.
illegals have the right to commit crimes that are not going to be prosecuted.
get over it.
america is over guys.
the patriot act did NOTHING to the illegals and their crimes against this nation/state, but sure as hell put the clamps on YOU and your freedom to travel without 'papers'.
take a plane?
gotta have papers.
take a car?
gotta have papers.
wanna walk?
gotta have a state ID.
unless of course, you are not an american to begin with.
then, you have immunity from a LOT of stuff.
it's time to call a constitutional convention and start over with a new constitution. This one, apparently is NOT worth defending. Just ask W and his partners about their unwillingness to prosecute a war along our own border against the invading hordes from the south... while fighting wars on the other side of the planet.
sick and tired of it.
mid terms will see the end of the majority bush has frittered away.
I don't have any problem with this decision. I don't think that employers should be permitted to use their own wrongdoing (i.e., the hiring of an illegal immigrant) as a defense to a demand that they accept the responsibilities that flow from their voluntary status as an employer.
That was my initial thought, however, after re-reading your excerpt a few more times I began to look at it another way.
For instance, many feel that it is the employers of the illegal invaders that should be targeted & punished. The argument against this seems to be that ID is presented that appears legal so the employer has no idea they are employing illegals. (or so he claims)
Now - the New Hampshire Supreme Court...allows illegal immigrants who are injured while working in the state to sue their employers and recover lost earnings...which just might make the employers look a little closer at the legal status of potential employees. Sort of a back door approach to the problem without "offending" the felons, as well as keeping with our new legislatures, the supreme court.
Just a thought.
Bingo. I heard you - both times.
Seems like the typical Lib focus on the "perp" - well, they have rights, too!
They have one and only one right.
To go to jail.
As should refusal to protect our borders by the agents who have sworn to protect them...also..be a felony level crime.
NOT.
What?, you think the agents in the field got together and decided to ignore the problem.
I rather think they are doing what they are told to do.
imo
LVM
Assuming the illegal alien didn't have forged papers and wasn't pretending to be legal, I think an employer has to pay for workplace injuries regardless of whether the employee was legal or illegal.
Employers are responsible for workplace injuries. That responsibility shouldn't be waived just because he cheated and hired an illegal alien.
If he purposely hired the illegal, he should also go to jail for violating the laws of the state and the country against hiring illegal aliens.
Well, what you want matters not, the folks we elected have already done so. End of story.
I want to throw out those that prostitute it.
Good luck with that. They are both parties and the over fifty percent of americans that are employed directly by government. In other words, they have the leos, and the guns, and the body armor on THEIR side. They are NOT going to stop prostitution of anything, unless it fattens their bank account or gives them even more power.
furthermore they can legislate whatever they want into a crime, felony or regulation REGARDLESS of what the constitution says. they do it everywhere in every governmental body in every part of every state of this federal republic. its over pal. We elected the most 'conservative' president and congress we have had in 60 years and the situation is degrading. They wont' defend us against invasion and WILL jail us for doing so ourselves. Time to get over it, learn spanish, portugese and memorize mao's little red book.
This truly is a constitional crisis.
NO, it WAS a constitutional crisis. Now the constitution is meaningless to them, except for being used selectively for propaganda and emotion.
Freedoms and rights and governmental responsibilites for our border defense are being abridged at an alarming rate. The patriot act is doing things that Clintong would have been hung for trying. But only to citizens, the wetbacks and illegals from central and south america, have NO requirments, and are allowed to skate on felony forgery charges, while staying here in the USA.
Your papers please, for your safety comrade, thank you. (only applies to YOU and ME gringo)
Here come the jackbooted thugs to arrest us for mentioning it. You must be a vigilante!
bfl
I think this is ok.... If an employer hires an illegal, then he has the same responsibilities to that employee. This is good, it is one more reason for employers not to break the law and hire illegals.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.