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Send the bill to George W. Bush and John McCain.
In NJ, they are entitled to recover for their injuries but not lost wages. Don’t ask me why, I am just a lawyer, not a legislator.
Hire an illegal and you should be responsible for them.
Let them recover in prison, after all they are illegal (what is the prison term for entering the US illegally?). When their prison term is over, send them back to Mexico and let them become the ward of their native country.
The employer ought to be liable. The problem we have isn’t that illegals want to come into this country - it’s human nature for poor people to want to better their lot. It’s that employers are able to hire them and pay them substandard wages and benefits without penalty. If they are forced to pay prevailing wages and disability benefits, the major benefit of hiring illegal aliens goes down, reducing the number of employers who will hire them, and consequently reducing the number of illegal aliens coming in, given that they won’t be able to find jobs as easily.
They hire illegals to keep costs down, then if something happens don’t pay for it.
Those aren’t employees, that’s slave labor. And the Dems are all for it and want more.
Send the bill to George W. Bush and John McCain.
In Kaleefornia, illegals are entitled to recover full work comp benefits as well as sue for damages in civil court. In fact, you cannot even inquire to their citizenship status in discovery. As a defense lawyer, you’ll be sanctioned by the judge if you even hint that they’re not here legally.
I agree. It should be the employers who hire illegals and the politicians who encourage it. Those cheap wages come at a price.
Here’s a news flash: If he had been hurt in Mexico, no one would have paid his bills their either, least of all the Mexican Gov’t.
I’ll bet $50 that he was getting paid under the table. And the cretin still thinks he is entitled to workman’s comp.
If he weren’t here illegally, this wouldn’t have happened here.
What does he expect? Tax payers to pay his medical bills too?
Doesn’t he feel guilty about being here ILLEGAL, breaking our laws and taking a job from a LEGAL U.S. citizen?
“His brother, Ivan — also in the U.S. illegally — visits on weekends off work. Leon’s grandmother, the only family member with a passport, has visited from Monterrey, Mexico. Leon doesn’t return to Monterrey because he isn’t sure his family can provide the medical care he needs.”
Amazing how being ILLEGAL is something to be proud of.
Why doesn’t family step in and take him home?
It’s tiem he returned to Mexico and had family care for him.
“Leon worked first under a fake Social Security number, then procured a real number under a fake name — Jesse James Craig. Hastings and Leon allege Altec knew about — and helped get around — his, Ivan’s and other workers’ illegal status, pointing to W-2 forms that show Ivan worked for Altec under three different names.”
Breaks our laws AGAIN and still presents this sob story.
Amazing!
“A civil court judge ruled Altec did not owe Leon anything for negligence, citing a precedent case that gives an employer legal immunity when they provide workers’ compensation. But Altec denied Leon workers’ compensation because of his illegal status.”
As it should be DENIED.
“This guy paid taxes. He paid higher taxes than me,” Hastings said. “But now, no one wants to help him.”
He should have gotten in line and come here LEGALLY. I doubt that he paid taxes. Under which of the three names did he pay these “taxes”? If he was paid so well, why isn't he paying his medical bills or purchase his own medical insurance?
“Companies shouldn't be hiring illegal immigrants in the first place, said former state Rep. Gayle Harrell, R-Port St. Lucie. But even if the employer knew the worker was illegal, Harrell said that doesn't entitle an injured worker — already breaking the law — to benefits.”
Correct!
he comes here illegally. Uses a fake social security number under three different names and now wants tax payers to have him compensated for LEGAL BENEFITS to a LEGAL CITIZEN? Amazing how arrogant people are.
“I don't think we should give any rights to illegals to start with,” said Harrell, who made stopping illegal immigration her top issue when she campaigned for U.S. House District 16. “You've got all these contractors out of work. We should be hiring legal workers, not illegal ones. These contractors could avoid all these sticky lawsuits.”
A criminal is a criminal Leon. Your only "right" as an illegal insurgent criminal invader of this country is prosecution. Stop sucking off of our medical system.
Go back to your home country and have them take care of you.
And take your illegal relatives with you to take care of you in the tropical paradise of Mexico.
Poor Leon...he took his chances....Ping!
” “He’s in a place where basically the American government is saying, ‘Go die somewhere.’ “
We need billboards across the countrey with that message on them!
TURN IN EMPLOYERs IF YOU KNOW THEY ARE HIRING ILLEGALS, THE IRS IS PAYING FINDERS FEES FOR TURNING THEM IN!!!!
If it were up to ne this guy gets taken the border and pushed across into Mexico
He earned his money illegally. He paid taxes on ill gotten gains.