The U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld a challenge to the 2007 Arizona law providing for employer sanctions for employers who fail to properly check the eligibility of new employees by use of the federal e-Verify system. Georgia has also passed a similar law, which will likely be challenged as well, but probably will be upheld.
In Kansas, laws dealing with the presence and hiring of illegal aliens were pretty much killed in the Senate. Ostensibly, a State Senator made an insensitive comment which rendered the issue untouchable. More likely, lobbying efforts by business interests made the issue untouchable.
Illegal immigration has created an unholy alliance between the left-wing liberals of the Democrat party and the Republican's left-wing, the moderate business interests. Liberals hope to have the votes of the illegal aliens when amnesty gets pushed through, while business interests hope to take advantage of minimum (or below) wage they can pay workers who elect not to pay taxes and collect state and federal aid, and aren't here at all, as far as the government knows.
There are people who are collecting unemployment because they were doing jobs "Americans won't do". Or rather, they can't do them when the new employees don't have to play by the same rules. These people need and deserve legal employment.
0 comments:
Post a Comment