Posted on 11/15/2006 3:59:23 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
Illegal immigrants injured on construction jobs can sue for the future income they would have earned in this country at American wage levels, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
The ruling does not apply to illegal immigrants who use false documents or otherwise lie about their immigration status to get jobs. But the decision, by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, says illegal immigrants are covered under New York's "scaffold law." The law allows injured workers to sue contractors over unsafe work environments.
The decision upholds a $638,671.63 jury award to an illegal immigrant from Brazil. Of that amount,$230,000 was for future lost earnings. The immigrant, Jose Raimundo Madeira, was earning $15 an hour and working long weeks as a construction worker in 2001 when he fell from a building at a job site in Monroe, N.Y. In granting the award, the jury considered Mr. Madeira's earning potential in this country and the likelihood he would stay, according to the decision.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Illegal aliens aren't in any great danger of being deported.
And the risk drops every day as Bush, Pelosi, and Reid try to find ways to make them even more comfy.
Immigration politics have similarly harmed New York. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city’s sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. The INS, he claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to “terrorize people.” Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.
New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans—four of them illegal—abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
IMO, anyone on FR who can blithely ignore this is no conservative. Not even close. They're simply doing a bad imitation of one.
And those who somehow claim some kind of credential for this guy in terms of national security need to have their heads examined...
Between the putative frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination, and the Democrat Congressional "leadership," it's all beginning to feel like some sort of grand, cosmic joke, isn't it? It should make for an entertaining couple of years, but our future is at stake. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
That's my initial reaction, also. This ruling removes one of the economic incentives for hiring illegal labor.
Here is the new slogan for the libs.
Living Wages for aliens, it is only fair.
LOL that's kinda like..... all of em, idn't it?
"The ruling does not apply to illegal immigrants who use false documents or otherwise lie about their immigration status to get jobs"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kick their illegal a$$e$ out of the country.
This could get interesting.
I've always said that when the employers of the aliens have to pay the insurance, education, etc of the aliens AND pay them at least minimum wage, that would be THE END of all this nonsense.
Taxpayers should file a class action suit against these employers that they are creating a hardship on our tax base. Or something like that.
No it hasn't. far from it. You just missed it (don't know how you did though???)
Rudy 'officially' made NYC a Sanctuary City. He fought the US gubmint all the way to SCOTUS - on NYC taxpayers money - and LOST. All in an effort to keep NYC from cooperating with the gubmint on illegals
In short Rudy LOVES open borders, Rudy LOVES illegals - which includes by definition - illegal terrorists (but he HATES the 2nd Amendment).
That's why all this 'Rudy is Tough On Terrorism' you see from the Rudy cult of personality worshipers here is utter nonsense. But one thing I've found that all of them mostly have in common, they're from NY too.
HA!HA!HA!HA! And who is going to deport them?
Ungh.
Boy am I getting reamed on that point. Okay, fair enough. How about the fact that workers comp doesn't cover illegals, so the employer is liable if there is an injury?
Rudy confused the INS with the IRS
ping
TANSTAAL - there ain't no such thing as a lunch?
What should I call the meal I'm about to eat?
There should be a process called "Popular Nullification"
When a federal court issues an idiotic statement, the other two branches of government and the public should be able to simply ignore it.
If they are here ILLEGALLY, and they are working here ILLEGALLY, they should not be entitled to ANY protection of the law.
I wonder what Alberto (Gonzales) would say to this?
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