Idaho county sues over immigrant workers

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 7/16/05 | Rebecca Boone

[cripplecreek]

Executives who allow the hiring of illegals need to go to jail, fines don't work.

[need_a_screen_name]

I love it. Bump!

[NormsRevenge]

fyi - saw your post from April.

They ain't weighin' filing the suit anymore. :)

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April 2005

Idaho officials weigh RICO lawsuit over illegal workers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382548/posts

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Their presence lowers the labor wage for American citizens and removes employment opportunities," county Commissioner Robert Vasquez, an ambitious politician who just started a bid for Congress, said of the illegal workers.

These reporters just can't help themselves.

[cripplecreek]

You know they would love to call him a racist but that one won't stick too well.

[calex59]

Don't the open borders crowd see the parallel between ILLEGALS and slavery? The employers want to keep the ILLEGALS here and let them keep coming so they can continue to use them as slave labor, because the wages they pay are slave wages! They keep Americans, both legal residents and citizens out of their labor pools because the wages are just too low. They scream and cry about how they can't do without the ILLEGALS.

The land owners in the old south did the same screaming and crying about how they couldn't afford not to have slaves but in the end they did without them.

We can do without ILLEGALS today and we will be just as well off as we are now. Control the borders, let the legals in, keep the ILLEGALS out. Send employers who break the law by hiring ILLEGALS to jail.

[skeeter]

"Their presence lowers the labor wage for American citizens and removes employment opportunities," county Commissioner Robert Vasquez

An obvious nativist.

[coffeebreak]

"However, Blakey notes that some federal courts have already ruled that governments can't try to recover the cost of being a government."

Even if the cost is because of illegal activity? The federal courts have ruled out a response. I'll bet the court rules that RICO doesn't apply. Judges!!!!

[bayourod]

From Today's L.A. Times:

"the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act made it illegal for businesses to hire unauthorized workers. Efforts to enforce this provision culminated in 1998 in an initiative called Operation Vanguard, which targeted meatpacking plants in Nebraska — a sector known to be highly dependent on illegal labor. Immigration agents compared company records with Social Security databases, then interrogated 4,500 suspect employees.

" Large numbers of workers fled the plants, and the initiative seemed on the brink of success — until the governor and several members of the Nebraska congressional delegation complained to immigration officials. Their complaint: Not only did the crackdown threaten to close the Nebraska meatpacking industry, one of the largest employers in the state, it also imperiled local agriculture by depressing prices for hogs and cattle.

" The politicians were responding to protests from employers and from the communities that depended on them. Within months, immigration authorities had all but suspended Operation Vanguard."

Let's see what happens in Canyon County when Iowans start losing jobs and farmers and ranchers can't sell their crops and livestock.

It'll just mean more Iowan children leaving home and moving to Texas for jobs.

[coffeebreak]

"You know they would love to call him a racist but that one won't stick too well."
You can bet they will still do it. Should be showing up shortly.

[diverteach]

Lets see. Whats the lesser of two evils here? Outsourcing your business to just about anywhere else besides within the states for cheaper production costs. OR Simply hire illegal and cheap labor within the states.
Makes sense to me that if they would ever get serious about tort reform instead of just talking about it then companies would be saving money on frivolous lawsuits and cheaper insurance and wouldn't need to outsource or hire illegals to maintain a decent profit margian.
It'd be a good start anyway.

[quantim]

Wow, tax dollars working for a change.

[jayhorn]

Know a good attorney?

[hedgetrimmer]

Wow, combining rico and trespassing and you might have something that works. Especially if the fine for trespassing is really stiff.

[Tripoli]

This happened in Idaho, not Iowa.

Shows how open you are to taking in accurate info as you ride that one trick pony.

[judgeandjury]

Let's see what happens in Canyon County when Iowans start losing jobs and farmers and ranchers can't sell their crops and livestock.

It'll just mean more Iowan children leaving home and moving to Texas for jobs.

We could let in more legal immigrants to fill those jobs in Canyon County.

[hedgetrimmer]

Don't the open borders crowd see the parallel between ILLEGALS and slavery?

Thank you for pointing this out. Since "open borders" with NAFTA, and the lack of enforcement against illegal immigration, slavery has actually made a comeback in the USA. The Department of labor estimates 144,000 slaves in the US, but I am sure its much higher than that, just as I am sure there are more illegals in the country than the government will admit to.

[Once-Ler]

But Vasquez has developed a reputation as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration. He has tried to bill the Mexican government for the cost of dealing with illegal immigrants from that country, and he tried unsuccessfully to have Canyon County declared a disaster area for what he claims is an impending "invasion" of illegal immigrants.

So far he has been a complete failure. No wonder the fringe right loves him so.

[cripplecreek]

I just love the way you folks immediately adopt liberal tactics when things aren't going your way.