🚀 go-pugleaf

Frank Matthews (MATTHEWS@MATH.CL.UH.EDU) wrote:
: Look folks the concept of closing the border is a fantasy.  While it 
: would help the steel mills can you imagine stringing barbed wire in our 
: National Parks?  And how much are you willing to raise taxes to pay the 
: couple of million federal workers needed to patrol?
: 
: If you want control of illegal immigration you are going to have to get 
: control of the jobs.  If the CEOs & CFOs of corporations were spending 
: time in the slammer for conspiracy to get illegals hired by their 
: contractors you might see some improvement.  Unless anyone hiring an 
: illegal is at at least as much risk of time in the slammer as a drug 
: dealer you will have folks coming across.  They aren't to blame the fat 
: cats getting them for cheap workers are the cause.
: 
The courts still provide an avenue for justice...

   http://www.fairus.org/html/07413209.htm
   FAIR Press Release -  Ninth Circuit Court Hands Important Legal 
   Victory to American Workers Under RICO Statute
                                      
  "Appeals Panel Rules That Citizens and Legal Immigrants Can Claim Injury
   Resulting from Employment of Illegal Aliens
                                      
   (Washington, D.C. September 4, 2002) In a landmark decision, aptly
   handed down the day after Labor Day, a three-judge panel of the 9th
   Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that workers could claim damages under
   the RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization) statute
   against employers who knowingly and systematically engage in hiring
   illegal aliens. The 9th Circuit ruling was made in a case brought in
   March 2000 by legal aliens against Zirkle Fruit and Matson Fruit, two
   Washington State packing companies.
   
   The ruling, coming on the heels of a 2001 decision by the 2nd Circuit
   in favor of a cleaning company that claimed injury because a
   competitor systematically employed illegal workers, opens the door for
   workers to seek legal redress for loss of jobs and wages due to the
   practice of employment of illegal aliens. The judges overruled a lower
   court decision that found the workers' claims of damage to be too
   speculative. In their decision, the 9th Circuit panel agreed with the
   plaintiffs that their injuries, resulting from the defendants' knowing
   employment of illegal aliens, were "direct, a crucial technical
   element of proving causation under RICO."
   
   The appellate judges went on to state in unequivocal language, "We are
   unable to discern a more direct victim of illegal conduct" than the
   workers who brought the suit against the fruit packers. The 9th
   Circuit ruled emphatically that workers who suffer job and wage loss
   as a result of the employment of illegal aliens have legal standing to
   sue employers under RICO. "The workers must be allowed to make their
   case through presentation of evidence," stated the decision..."
   
--Jerry Leslie   (my opinions are strictly my own)
  Note: leslie@jrlvax.houston.rr.com is invalid for email