Maribel Nava Alvarez (inset) claims she was threatened after winning a contest for a car like this one, a 1999 Corvette.
Posted on 01/27/2007 5:25:57 PM PST by dennisw
Illegal Immigrant Sues Radio Station For Following Law An illegal immigrant is suing a radio station because it abided by U.S. federal law in requiring her to provide a valid Social Security or tax identification number before giving her a prize she won in a contest.
When the Mexican woman, living illegally in Chicago for 15 years, could not provide the proper documents, the station refused to giver her the prize. The woman had won a sports car previously owned by a popular Mexican singer and federal law requires the station to report the Social Security number of everyone who wins a prize worth more than $500.
Now the illegal alien, Maribel Nava Alvarez, is actually suing the Chicago Spanish-language station, WLEY, for breach of contract and emotional distress even though she is the one who for years has violated U.S. immigration law. Her attorney says that the station never informed his client that she had to be a legal U.S. resident to be eligible for the prize and that there wasn’t even any “fine print” requiring it.
The station is owned by the largest Hispanic radio broadcasting company in the United States, Miami Florida-based Spanish Broadcasting System. The company owns stations in the nation’s top Hispanic markets, including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, New York and San Francisco and is considered a champion for Hispanic rights and the legalization of working immigrants.
Never the less, the company operates in the United States and must abide by the country’s federal laws. One Chicago newspaper editorial sums up the irony of this woman seeking legal rights in a country whose laws she has violated for most of her life. It reads, in part: For Alvarez to claim a breach of contract when she was unable to provide the legally required Social Security or tax ID number, let alone proof of legal residence, is to seek protection under laws of a country to which she has never sworn an oath.
Illegal Immigrant Sues Radio Station For Following Law An illegal immigrant is suing a radio station because it abided by U.S. federal law in requiring her to provide a valid Social Security or tax identification number before giving her a prize she won in a contest.
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This scum bag and his lawyer, know what they are working with in Washington, DC.
"Illegal Immigrant Sues Radio Station For Following Law An illegal immigrant is suing a radio station because it abided by U.S. federal law in requiring her to provide a valid Social Security or tax identification number before giving her a prize she won in a contest."
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"This scum bag and his lawyer, know what they are working with in Washington, DC."
Yes, spineless jerks, just about every last one of them.
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And she is being deported when? (crickets............)
Grab her, cuff her, deport her.
Maybe they could offer her a Jenny Craig membership as a consolation prize.
Does she realize taxes will be owed? Without a number, the gov't can't collect the taxes. If she provides a stolen #, someone else gets screwd.
U.S. Federal Tax law should not be the responsibility of the station. Ironic that if she had been working for her citizenship she may have been taught that in America, ignorance of the law is no excuse for not being held accountable to it.
If I were counsel for the radio station, I would notice Ms. Alvarez up for a deposition, and arrange for some INS agents to attend.
Actually, a different article stated that she has left Chicago and is sick with cancer. Guess that is being treated on the taxpayers dime too.
It just never ends.
"does she realize taxes will be owed"?
Why would she care. Take the car and run. I'm sure she wasn't planning on paying anything to the government.
Bttt!
I think the Mexican government asked her to be come an illegal because she's so ugly it wanted her out of the country.
That's the catch 22 of a lot of giveaways. You pay the taxes first and get what's left.
Posted here on FR - Over 43,000 Americans were murdered/killed by illegal aliens since 9/11 .......
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