Employers feel heat on immigration

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | July 5, 2007 | Faye Bowers

[Dubya]

Phoenix - Arizona leads the nation in population growth. More illegal immigrants cross its border than any other in the United States. Now, in an apparent backlash to those trends, the state is leading the charge to halt illegal immigration by cracking down on employers. Its new law effectively sets up a two-strikes penalty. A business employing an illegal immigrant would have its business license suspended temporarily. A second offense would mean a permanent revocation of that license.

[Dubya]

Arizona's new law imposes sanctions – the stiffest in the US – for hiring illegal workers.

[Principled]

Count on states to do what the fed won't.

I wonder what results when state law exists prior to a fed law? That is, will state laws be wiped out when/if they pass an amnesty bill?

[WWTD]

Arizona’s two Republican Senators are pro-amnesty, while the Democratic governer is pro-enforcement. Master, I am confused.

[nmh]

GOOD!

May this spread throughout ALL our states.

If they won’t enforce laws perhaps punishing employers will do it!

[upchuck]

Prediction: this will do little to stop employers from hiring illegal aliens.

In order to achieve the desired affect the law should have stipulated stiff fines and jail time for the employers. THEN it would make a difference.

[VR-21]

I don't think it goes far enough. Greedheads who hire illegals should also forfeit all business assets, do mandatory jail time and lose the right to vote and own firearms.

Screw them!

[rbg81]

Watch some Federal judge strike it down—soon. The fix is in and it will take a lot more heat from the People to turn things around.

[Obie Wan]

An important part of solving the immigration debacle is to prosecute employers who are willingly hiring illegals !!!

[rjsimmon]

Count on states to do what the fed won't.

I wonder what results when state law exists prior to a fed law? That is, will state laws be wiped out when/if they pass an amnesty bill?

Wait until the ACLU grabs ahold of this. No manner of perversion of the law is out of their realm.

[Rome2000]

All of the 19 men who hijacked planes on September 11th, including Atta, entered the United States on a tourist, or student visa, issued by the former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.-ABC News

A border fence will not stop trained terrorists from getting into this country

Where is the call for the border fence on the Canadian border?

You stop illegal immigration by jailing employers who hire anybody not in posession of a government issued identity card and by setting up camps to inter anybody in the country illegally pending deportation.

[upchuck]

Dang it, I hit the post button too soon.

It’s a shame when the states have to make laws because the Imperial Federal Government won’t.

Then again, maybe it’s not a bad thing. Inefficient government at the federal level has benefits.

[sgtbono2002]

Maybe you didnt read it right. It says the first time they get suspension, the second time they dont have a business any more.

What fine can be worse than closing you down,putting you out of business.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

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BRAINSTORM QUESTION: What are some ways that citizens can ensure the laws are actually enforced? (In AZ as well as elsewhere?)

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[cripplecreek]

I suspect there will be a stampede of lobbyists running to washington with bags of cash looking to increase the number of visas for people from 3rd world countries.

[Bender]

Build a wall, deport ‘em all!

[Prokopton]

Prediction: this will do little to stop employers from hiring illegal aliens. In order to achieve the desired affect the law should have stipulated stiff fines and jail time for the employers.would have to be enforced THEN it would make a difference.

I have no confidence this law will be enforced any more than the hundreds of other immigration laws. It will cost many millions of dollars for all the people required to actually enforce it.

[FrankR]

Permanently loosing your business license is a pretty stiff penalty.

[iopscusa]

It is a step in the right direction, a beginning and we will see this spread with more laws that will be enforced

[Don Corleone]

Its new law effectively sets up a two-strikes penalty.

The third fourth, fifth and sixth pitches however will be curve balls, outside the zone, thrown by the 9th circus court and the businesses will get a free pass...

[Regulator]

while the Democratic governer is pro-enforcement

No she isn't.

Janet Napolitano is a disciplined, vicious, ice-in-her veins hard line Dyke-Bolshevik thug.

And she wants to be more than just the Arizona governor.

So she signed the bill, because she knew if she didn't, it was going to be used as a club on her in the next election: do you think Mad Johnny is going to stick around for any more abuse, now that he doesn't get to be President?

She would have had her veto overridden anyway. Costs her nothing. Now she doesn't have the issue to contend with, and people will actually think that she gives a damn.

Which she does NOT.

The woman is one of the hardest of hard line Leftists in this country and no one should ever forget it. How she ended up the Governor of Arizona is beyond me. Must be all the vacuous idiots from Lost Angeles who've moved to Arizona in the last 10 years running from the Mexican Invasion.