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A court has now ruled that Santos-Cruz is due workers compensation benefits and medical care for life despite being in the country illegally. The case is a possible legal precedent and a sign of things to come for builders who have come to rely on immigrant laborers in a booming housing market.
But the Home Builders Association of Alabama cited the immigration status of Santos-Cruz when it intervened in the case and asked the judge to deny benefits for the teen, who was partially paralyzed while working on a home in the upscale Greystone development in suburban Birmingham. Free traders want cheap labor and no legal responsibility.
43 posted on
11/23/2005 11:21:09 AM PST by
A. Pole
(Working three jobs - uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic, oooh yeah, yeah, hehe.)
To: A. Pole
Free traders want cheap labor and no legal responsibility And that's why this is a good decision. Drying up the economic incentives to cheat in the game will help change the situation.
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