California employers may be sued if they hire illegal aliens
Now wouldn’t this be a novel idea? The Central Valley Business Times reports this story of a courageous attorney.
David Klehm, an Orange County attorney, says he will represent law-abiding firms which have suffered economic damage as a result of their competitors using cheap labor. He says the first suits could be filed this summer.
“This has never been done before. This is the first time anyone in the country has actually used state civil law to prosecute employers of illegal aliens,†Mr. Klehm says. “We’re hoping … this will be a model for other states across the country.â€
If this goes the way it’s planned, it is going to cost the State of California a lot of money.
According to Mr. Klehm, honest California businesses have lost billions of dollars over the years as a result of being undercut by competitors that employ illegal aliens. Under state law, they are entitled to compensation, he says.
“For some of our clients, their only choice is to file a lawsuit or file bankruptcy papers,” says Mr. Klehm. “People who obey the law should not be forced into bankruptcy by those who don’t.”
Maybe the people who love to point out their “rights” will be receptive to a company’s “right” to pay their employees a decent wage without being sent into bankruptcy by companies who employ illegals.
We are learning from our mistakes and those of our government.
↓ Quote | Posted July 8, 2006, 9:24 amWe certainly would not want to sound like selfish Americans. After all the illegal aliens have shared so much with us. They have educated us in how to close down a hospital, 60 in California alone. They have taught us how to use stolen identities to ruin the credit rating of millions of Americans. They have shared disease, tuberculosis, chagas, leprosy, polio, dengue, plague, and malaria. They have shared their knowledge of how to utilize our social systems that were set up for and paid for by Americans, welfare, EBT, WIC, Section 8, etc. They have shared the new schools and prisons we have built, giving us the opportunity to utilize our property taxes to build more. They have taught us how to drive with no licence, no insurance, and if we cause an accident killing or injuring someone, how to get a new ID to avoid prosecution. They have taught us to be thrifty by living 25 people to a single family dwelling. They have shared with us the knowledge of how to avoid paying taxes, Cash payment, 1099, 14 bogus dependants, except sales tax, they haven’t figured that one out yet unless you count shoplifting. They have shared their highly artistic Graffiti, junk cars in front yards, trash in front yards, loud music all night, drunken parties, a lesson in how to quickly drive down property values. They have shared with us their knowledge of how an anchor baby can give a firm foothold in the USA. They have shared with us the way to get sympathy, “I’m just a poor person who crossed the burning desert to work and give my family a better life”. They have shown us the error of our way in not learning to speak a foreign language to get a job in America. They have shared with us the proper way to fly our flag and sing our National Anthem. At the risk of sounding “whinny†I have had just about all the unselfish sharing I can stand.
Judy, thank you for your comments. Tuberculosis is becoming a huge risk for police officers and firefighters who come into contact with these people. Chagas disease is incurable, and while most of us don’t have assassin bugs living in our homes, we do need to worry about the nation’s blood supply being infected with those parasites. Polio has been gone from this country for years. I’ve heard that its return is a very bad thing because most Americans have lost their immunity to it. It’s scary stuff, to contemplate the rise of new or reintroduced diseases just because we decided as a nation not to control our borders.
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