No.
[’If you’re already a customer and you already have service with us — and there’s no discontinuation of service — we don’t have to do anything,’ Mr Pirkle however explained.]
So they only perform a check on NEW customers, and if the new customer is a legal alien they check periodically to ensure their legal status hasn’t expired.
Hopefully, citizens will tip utilities off about illegals so the utility will shut down existing customers after investigating. Otherwise, the illegals can stay forever as long as they don’t move.
I don’t really see why this was ever an issue. A utility is providing credit to its customers since billing is done after usage. Anyone providing credit should be running a credit check, which would have required an SS# and valid ID to run. Had they done that all along, they would never have had illegals as customers to begin with.
Does the legislature grandfather current illegals in so the company cannot be held liable for selling them power?
Hopefully, citizens will tip utilities off about illegals so the utility will shut down existing customers after investigating. Otherwise, the illegals can stay forever as long as they don’t move.
If a citizen tips off the authorities that the utility has been selling services to an illegal alien then does the whistle-blower get a reward? Part of the fine the utility is liable for?