Legislatures Look at Employer Sanctions

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Legislatures Look at Employer Sanctions

By JACQUES BILLEAUD
Associated Press Writer


PHOENIX (AP) -- Frustrated by what they see as a lack of aggressiveness on the federal government's part, lawmakers in several states want to start doing something that has long been Washington's job: cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

Legislators in at least nine states - Arizona, Missouri, Montana, Virginia, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma - have considered various ideas, including fining businesses and suspending their licenses, prohibiting violators from obtaining state contracts, and requiring employers to sign affidavits saying they do not knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

A few states passed laws in 2006 to confront the problem as well.

A 20-year-old federal law prohibits businesses from knowingly employing illegal immigrants. And the federal government has launched several employer crackdowns over the past year. But some state legislators say Washington is not doing enough.

"The feds are so woefully behind," said Republican state Sen. Chris Koster of Missouri, sponsor of a proposal that would require many employers to electronically verify the eligibility of their workers. "To sit around and wait for federal action on this is like waiting for Santa Claus."

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Actually, the crackdown on illegals has been so effective over the past few years that states are considering hiring our prisoners to work the fields that no one is working at anymore. I don't see any reason for sanctions whenever the current methods are working so well, and the sanctions would only worsen our economy even further anyway.
 
Watermark said:
Actually, the crackdown on illegals has been so effective over the past few years that states are considering hiring our prisoners to work the fields that no one is working at anymore. I don't see any reason for sanctions whenever the current methods are working so well, and the sanctions would only worsen our economy even further anyway.
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This is such total rubbish. The crackdown is non-existent. They aren't in the fields because they now work security at the casino and other places, such as the restaurant manager at your local Denny's. And believe me, those are NOT jobs that Americans "won't" do.
 
Damocles said:
This is such total rubbish. The crackdown is non-existent. They aren't in the fields because they now work security at the casino and other places, such as the restaurant manager at your local Denny's. And believe me, those are NOT jobs that Americans "won't" do.
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I'm telling you a fact. Illegal immigration has come down by a lot in recent years. And there is a lack of farm workers in the border states.

I don't know where to find charts to prove that (people who talk about illegal immigration rarely use facts, either way they lean), I watched it in an ABC news report.
 
Of course, I had also read reports before about how drug dealers are killing illegal immigrants, as the border patrol has cut off routes they had previously use, leaving them in a tighter squeeze. So drug dealers have become harder on illegal immigrant smugglers, as they dislike them making the routes they use subject to more scrutiny whenever illegals are caught there.
 
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