[proudofthesouth]

Why hasn't he been deported? I feel sorry for him - NOT!

[radar101]

As a retired Investigator for different Insurance companies in California (Where most Insurance companies have left, or no longer write specic types of policies) Illegal Aliens have drained the Worker's Comp system. About 85% of WC fraud is by Illegal Aliens. The State of California deems Illegal Aliens ENTITLED to WC.

If they get hurt, it pays them: A weekly check Medical costs Transportation to and from medical appointments A translator at those appointments

WC is being used as an Illegal Alien Retirement system. "Gethurt,m and get a check for the rest of your life. Get a PO box just across the Border, and live like upper middle class in Mexico.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Woulda never have happened if he'd not been here. Every time an incident like this occurs INS/DHS/BP/whomever should be investigating the employer.

[Hydroshock]

Deport them all.

[freeangel]

No problem--he will simply sue and win! That's what they have been doing all over the country. Always something about "their rights" ya know.

[Clara Lou]

If illegals feel "on their own" when they're injured, then perhaps they should stay in the country of their birth or go to Canada. Simple solution.

[AppyPappy]

If he hadn't come here illegally, he wouldn't be in this position.

[WV Mountain Mama]

I am really trying to feel sorry that this guy is sticking us with his medical bills and wants more of our money cause he is here illegally, hurt, and can no longer send money back to wife and kids in Mexico. Nope, can't do it. Send him back and let his own wonderful country and countrymen take care of him.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Thousands of illegal workers like Hernandez are hurt on the job every year in America but don't get the compensation that's promised by law in every state

BECAUSE

discovered that Hernandez was in America illegally, without work papers or permission from federal immigration officials

And its not promised by law in every state Either unless someone pays for the service !

[Hardastarboard]

This sort of reminds me of what happens when people ask a body shop to "bury the insurance deductible" in the damage estimate. Then, when the body shop screws them, they're upset. Well, duh, if they'll cheat the insurance company, they'll cheat you too. Somehow the analogy just seems to fit.

If an employer is too cheap and sleazy to hire legal labor, do you think they're going to bend over backward to take care of someone who gets hurt on the job?

[raybbr]

Thousands of illegal workers like Hernandez are hurt on the job every year in America but don't get the compensation that's promised by law in every state.

NO bias there, Liz Chandler is there?

[SmoothTalker]

Good. They aren't in our country legally so they don't deserve the benifits of a citizen. They are already costing our hosptials billions a year and costing us a tremendous amounts in education and social services too.

[NewRomeTacitus]

The employers of illegals should be held liable - by law - for all expenses if their wage slaves are injured or killed. If that stick were applied they wouldn't hire them and the costs wouldn't be dumped on the taxpayers and those paying inflated insurance premiums...another step toward making the illegals self-deport.

[X918]

I wrote his insurance carrier "Florida Citrus" a job well done email and for cutting off this parasite.Hernadez deserves NOTHING and quite frankly ,I dont care if his family starves.He is here illegally.

[VOA]

Illegals on their own if injured on the job (BOO-HOO)

This is NOT totally true.
IIRC, a legal case forced an employer to pay the damages on an illegal
employee...no different than if the guy had been on workman's comp.

And in one of the eastern states, an illegal is collecting money
from a fund for traffic accident victims without any other monetary support.

[chuckles]

This is what I have said from the beginning. If you want to hire an illegal, fine. Just be ready to pay for his children going to school, and don't even think about any of his family going to the ER. If you want to pay $5 hr for a fruit picker, then pay for his out of pocket expenses. It's not the taxpayers job to subsidize his fruit pickers. It costs about $10k a year for a student in Kalifornia, and a trip to the ER, well, that's real money! If he has a wreck and he is liable, then he either has insurance or his boss is liable because it is his fault he's in this country having wrecks. If the employer is held accountable for the expenses of the illegal, this crap would stop and the real cost of $5 fruit pickers would emerge.

I worked for the phone company for 30 years and they would tell us that we "cost" $90 an hour. I only made about $23 and hr. The rest was what the company paid for me to be a "responsible", middle class employee. I was "paid" enough to pay for insurance, taxes, etc. This stuff isn't free. If they don't pay, we do.

[Wolfie]

Of course they're on their own. It's one of the benefits of hiring illegals.