Things That Just Piss Me Off

You know the issue of illegal immigration is a mess when organizations that represent businesses in the US oppose making the hiring of illegal iimigrants illegal.

If you knowingly hired someone who is wanted for a crime, then you are guilty of harboring a fugitive and possibly aiding and abetting a criminal.

If you knowingly hire an illegal iimigrant, it’s the same thing. Don’t give me the bs about whether you think it should be illegal or not to cross the border illegally. The fact is that it is illegal and therefore the term illegal immigrant.

If an employer hire them and knows they are illegal, they are breaking the law. But let’s not be too ough on them right? After all this whole immigration thing is politically risky. We don’t want to be thought of as racist just because we believe in the laws of this country.

In Mexico you go to prison for being an illegal immigrant. In the US you only get deported. In Mexico, if a business hires illegal immigrants you can bet on them being shut down permanently.

From the NYTimes
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

A new Arizona law considered among the nation’s toughest against employers who hire illegal immigrants will go into effect on Jan. 1 after federal judges on Friday refused to block it.

The law calls for suspending the license of an employer found to have knowingly hired an illegal worker, and revocation for a second offense.

Both a United States district judge in Phoenix and a federal appeals court in San Francisco, ruling on separate lawsuits by business and civil rights groups, declined to stand in the way.

First of all it’s a shame that this is the toughest law in the US for hiring illegal immigrants. Secondly, business organizations fighting against it are not doing so to protect illegal immigrants from persecution, they are doing it so they don’t have to pay a decent living wage to people who work for them.

As for the civil rights groups, using fear of lawsuits to undermine upholding US law is wrong. If the immigrants applied for citizenship and were denied employement unfairly, then they need protection.

The laws that protect US citizens from unfairness are in place. it is part of the benefit of becoming a US citizen. If you want these protections, then apply for US citizenship. That simple.

If you choose to do it the illegal way instead, then you don’t get those protections. Why is that such a difficult concept?

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