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<johnny@.> wrote in message
news:KK2Ig.23838$T8.19440@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
> By Peter Prengaman
> August 23, 2006
>
> Frustrated businesses took their fight against illegal immigration to a
> Los Angeles court Tuesday, filing the first in a series of lawsuits
> accusing competitors of hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair
> advantage.
>
> Anti-illegal immigration groups said the lawsuits were an attempt to
> enforce immigration law by creating a deterrent against hiring illegal
> employees.
>
> "We see the legal profession bringing to this issue the kind of effect
> it's had on consumer product safety,'' said Mike Hethmon of the
> Immigration Reform Law Institute, a Washington D.C.-based group backing
> the California cases.
>
> In the complaint filed Tuesday, a temporary employment agency that
> supplies farm workers sued a grower and a two competing companies.
>
> Similar cases claiming violations of federal anti-racketeering laws have
> yielded mixed results. The California lawsuits are believed to be the
> first based on a state's unfair-competition laws, legal experts said.
>
> Santa Monica-based Global Horizons claimed in the lawsuit that Munger
> Brothers, a grower, hired illegal immigrant workers from Ayala
> Agricultural Services and J&A Contractors. All the defendants are based
> in California's farm-rich Central Valley.
>
> The suit alleges that Munger Brothers had a contract with Global
> Horizons to provide more than 600 blueberry pickers this spring, but
> nixed the agreement so it could hire illegal immigrants.
>
> "Competitors hiring illegal immigrants is hurting our business badly,''
> Global Horizons President Mordechai Orian said. "It's to the point that
> doing business legally isn't worth it.''
>
>
> The Global Horizons lawsuit came after a settlement was reached in a
> Washington state class action suit involving employees of Zirkle Fruit
> Co. who sued their employer for driving down wages by hiring
> undocumented workers.
>
> Based on federal anti-racketeering laws, the case was settled for $1.3
> million (euro1.01 million) in January after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
> of Appeals overturned a lower court decision to dismiss it.
>
> Howard Foster, the lead plaintiffs' lawyer in the Washington case, said
> he expects more such suits as business owners learn their competitors
> hired illegal immigrants.
>
> http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2006/08/23/71677.htm
> -- 
>
> "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's
> just a goddamned piece of paper!"

You can report companies employing illegal aliens by calling Immigration
Customs Enforement at 1-866-347-2423. Furnish name, address, phone numbers,
and type of business.

hank