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Employers Are Not Immigration Officers
Townhall.com ^ | June 16, 2013 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 06/17/2013 4:16:19 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/17/2013 4:16:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Under Obama, immigration officers are not immigration officers.


2 posted on 06/17/2013 4:24:12 AM PDT by buridan (,)
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To: Kaslin
Personally, I'm in favor of penalties for businesses and individuals who knowingly hire illegals. To me, it's on a par with knowingly buying stolen property from a burglar.

I do wish the government was as hard on itself for knowingly letting them in, giving them taxpayer-funded benefits etc.

3 posted on 06/17/2013 4:25:02 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: Kaslin

Not “sharply penalized”...imprisoned!


4 posted on 06/17/2013 4:27:08 AM PDT by RavenATB
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“Does it follow that every employer, as part of its hiring process, can be required to check with the Internal Revenue Service or the Transportation Security Administration to make sure it doesn’t hire someone with a tax-code infraction or an airport security breach in his past?”

The winning bid contractor showed up at my General Dynamics facility with roughly 25 illegal aliens. It took five minutes for the guard at the door to determine their status. The entire operation was sent on its way. He showed up later with a considerably smaller force and did the job.


5 posted on 06/17/2013 4:32:34 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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I am glad the guard did his job. I would not be surprised if most of these employers who hire illegals take advantage of them, by paying them under the table, yet still take taxes and social security out, but putting the amount in their own pockets instead of sending it in. What do these dumb illegal immigrants from Mexico know?


6 posted on 06/17/2013 4:44:34 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Those knowingly employing illegal aliens should;

Have their assets seized immediately by the IRS for
non payment of SS and FICA taxes.

Be fined and jailed for violating OSHA regulations.

And upon completion of their jail sentence, have their
Citizenship revoked, and be deported to whatever
third world s-hole the majority of their “employees”
came from.

There are no rights to cheap vegetables and low cost concrete finishing in the Constitution.


7 posted on 06/17/2013 4:47:52 AM PDT by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture....all should be preserved)
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To: Kaslin

Try to get hired in any country but here without the correct paperwork !
The employers will not hire you !
They refuse ,
We are the only. First world country were the employers get away with this crap. !

Jeffy is an idiot


8 posted on 06/17/2013 4:50:18 AM PDT by ncalburt (Amnesty media out in full force)
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But by what logic does that entitle Congress to turn employers into involuntary immigration agents,

The fact that many employers are intentionally hiring illegals.


9 posted on 06/17/2013 5:13:11 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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Why can’t the government use e-verify to deny welfare benefits? They are holding businesses to standards they themselves cannot uphold.


10 posted on 06/17/2013 5:14:03 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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Why can’t the government use e-verify to deny welfare benefits? They are holding businesses to standards they themselves cannot uphold.


11 posted on 06/17/2013 5:14:03 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: buridan

There are businesses that deliberately employ illegals, and they should pay the consequences, but employers have been made responsible for determining and documenting the residency status of their employees, when they are forbidden from asking the questions that would give them a clue, and they are forbidden from profiling people with foreign accents or names.


12 posted on 06/17/2013 5:28:19 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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from my home page

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Whenever an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or something similar, here’s what I recommend:
What can we do about it? Here’s my standard post.

RICO —Citizen Recourse

Private persons and entities may initiate civil suits to obtain injunctions and treble damages against enterprises that conspire to or actually violate federal alien smuggling, harboring, or document fraud statutes, under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO). The pattern of racketeering activity is defined as commission of two or more of the listed crimes. A RICO enterprise can be any individual legal entity, or a group of individuals who are not a legal entity but are associated in fact, and can include nonprofit associations.

Here’s what I’ve been pushing: it’s time to file Racketeering, Influencing, and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuits.

RICO lawyers could turn it around in a few years and MAKE MONEY at the same time. I’m surprised they haven’t done it already.

In the absence of enforcement, we can get the word out in the meantime that there is money to be made in filing RICO lawsuits against employers who hire illegal aliens like this jerk.

Employers would have no trouble shutting down the border if they could get sued by someone under the RICO statutes for hiring these people in the first place. The next time an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or somesuch thing, I’m going to point out that the victim’s family might be able to seek compensation from the employer under these statutes in the hopes that it would catch on. If this did catch on, would see such a swift backlash against illegal immigration that no employer would go near these people and they’ll all simply want to go back home.



13 posted on 06/17/2013 5:29:46 AM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Daveinyork

Good points.


14 posted on 06/17/2013 5:49:23 AM PDT by buridan
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To: Kaslin

Thank you Kaslin! I’ve been saying this for awhile now. It’s the constitutional obligation of the federal government to enforce immigration laws.

We claim to follow the constitution - and there it is right there.

It’s not the obligation for other entities to arrogate constitutional privileges accorded to the federal government.

All E-Verify do is give the federal government increased control over employment.


15 posted on 06/17/2013 5:55:02 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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I have an easier solution.

If they are caught breaking the law, deport them.

That’s what Mexico does.


16 posted on 06/17/2013 5:56:26 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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It’s an easier solution, but it does not work. We cannot rely upon la migra to do their job.


17 posted on 06/17/2013 6:12:50 AM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Excellent point.


18 posted on 06/17/2013 6:49:09 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: ncalburt

Maybe other countries do what they are supposed to do. Here they don’t


19 posted on 06/17/2013 6:52:10 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Hmm ~ how about this ~ think of a world where employers are not smart enough to figure out if someone is an illegal ~ how likely then are they to be smart enough to figure out how to run their businesses?
20 posted on 06/17/2013 7:05:00 AM PDT by muawiyah
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