Hiring Illegal Aliens

Not long ago National Public Radio reported a story headlined “Border Fence Firm Snared for
Hiring Illegal Workers.” It seems a fence-building company in Southern California had hired
illegal aliens to help build the fence the feds planned to use to keep illegal aliens out of the
country. The company was fined nearly $5 million and two of its executives were sent to jail.
This case epitomizes the current illegal aliens muddle in the United States. On the one hand,
there’s a strong movement afoot to stop all illegal immigration. On the other hand, there’s
no doubt that the U.S. economy badly needs the very immigrants it’s trying to keep out - so
badly, apparently, we even need their help building the border fence! This is a knotty
problem, that, so far, the U.S. Congress has not been able or willing to unravel. And given
the failure of immigration reform in `07, nobody really expects a new reform bill until after
the ‘08 elections.
Meanwhile the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is stepping up its enforcement
of the old, flawed 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act, which basically puts the responsibility
on employers to police the border by refusing to hire illegal aliens. Until recently even ICE didn’t
seem to take this too […]

Full Article At: KnowHow-Now.com Articles

Bookmark to: