Alabama:'See Ya' illegals,Brooks says.Commissioner touts bill making it crime to employ such aliens

Huntsville Times ^ | December 03, 2005 | JOHN PECK

[Joe Boucher]

This is the only way to stop illegal immigration. Penelize the employer. Dry up the jobs and the flow of illegals will stop

[Kjobs]

This will hurt small business owners, many of whom cannot afford to hire non-illegal American workers. It's an ugly truth but a truth nonetheless.

[ridesthemiles]

I thought it was already a Federal Law that you couldn't hire Illegals.
When I am processing payroll, I have to be very careful that the proper documents are given to me by the applicant.
It may make enforcement easier if there is some local laws, also, and I am in favor of that.
BTW- head to Home Depot first.........

[Mulch]

"non-illegal American workers"

Thats a strange way of saying "legal US citizen."

[NY Attitude]

The costs may be awash when you consider all of the services (medical, schools, etc) that the illegals receive.

[sweetliberty]

"Nothing would please me more than to see these employers in handcuffs being carted away to jail. And the sooner the better."

Me either, but the problem is that too many big enployers greasing the palms of unscrupulous politicians. Case in point; the Tyson lawsuit a few years back finding no evidence that Tyson was hiring illegals. Any idiot spending a day in Springdale, Arknasas could refute those findings.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Brooks has to get some traction as it is all but a given that George Wallace, Jr. will be the GOP nominee for Lieutenant-Governor.

[Surtur]

So, is it your position then that it is fine for a small business to survive by getting an illegal alien subsidy paid for by legal working class citizens?

[Clintonfatigued]

I keep hoping that Bud Cramer retires.

[gubamyster]

ping

[dennisw]

'Bama Bump!

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!

[Kjobs]

So, is it your position then that it is fine for a small business to survive by getting an illegal alien subsidy paid for by legal working class citizens?

Not at all. I'm just saying that illegals are hired for the bald fact that they are a cheaper source of labor.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I keep hoping that Bud Cramer retires."

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I don't think he'll retire anytime soon, so I keep hoping he'll switch parties. He's conservative enough to make the switch without sticking out too badly, and he'd benefit by being eligible for a chairmanship and by having easier reelections.

But if Cramer won't switch, I'd love to see Brooks take him on.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Cramer has been resisting entreaties to switch for over a decade now. Sen. Shelby has tried to work on him, but no such luck. Although the 5th district is majority GOP at the Presidential level (and trickling down a bit at the legislative level), it has not sent a Republican to the House since the first election after it was readmitted to the Union for the remainder of the 1868 Congress (then it was split into 2 districts, the 5th and 6th). It did, however, when it was the ancestral 8th (now within virtually the same boundaries it is today), twice send a radical leftist Greenbacker in 1878 and 1880, the only other time it sent a non-Democrat.

[RJL]

Lieutenant governor candidate Morris "Mo" Brooks is pushing a bill that would make it a crime for employers to hire illegal aliens. It also provides financial incentives for whistle-blowers to turn in violators.

Excellent!

[RJL]

Russell Davis, an officer with the Homebuilders Association of Alabama, said there is no way for contractors to check the immigration status of everyone on a construction site.

"In a typical situation where someone hires a subcontractor and that sub winds up having an illegal alien on that crew, who's committing the felony?" he said. He called the bill an "overreaching" effort to deal with the problem.

Amazingly, Russell’s mind will focus sharply and come to a clear understanding about all this the first time an employer of illegals is fined $5,000 a head, 10 years in jail, court costs and the “wage penalty”.

[CommandoFrank]

And the agricultural wheel of Alabama comes to a screeching halt....

[Clintonfatigued]

This is a good idea.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>"The evidence must be such that the employer knows the person he's hired is an illegal alien," he said.<<<

This is smoke-and-mirrors, Bush style. Employers will simply refuse to ask new employees if they are illegal.