By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, September 29, 2017
. . .
The feds also secured a guilty plea from Larry Gauger, a mid-level Asplundh executive, for the same set of issues; he faces sentencing in federal court on October 16. One hopes he gets some jail time.
This was not a garden-variety illegal alien hiring violation, according to court documents.
As a result of an E-Verify check, some 100 Asplundh workers were identified as not being in the country legally and were laid off by the firm. Then some of them were knowingly rehired under new, phony names bearing new, phony documents.
The information filed against the company cited four examples of this double-dealing, with, for instance, a worker who had been Danny Palao prior to his being laid off, being rehired as Jose Feliciano.
. . .
https://cis.org/North/Its-About-Time-Employer-Hit-96-Million-Penalty-Hiring-Illegal-Aliens
DoJ sues company that refused to hire Americans
More of this, please.
The Department of Justice is cracking down on companies that show
a preference for hiring foreign workers over Americans. DoJ filed suit
against a Colorado company that refused to hire three Americans as seasonal
technicians, preferring to employ foreign workers under the H-2A visa
program.
The complaint alleges that in 2016, Crop
Production discriminated against at least three United States citizens by
refusing to employ them as seasonal technicians in El Campo, Texas, because
Crop Production preferred to hire temporary foreign workers under the H-2A visa
program.
"In the spirit of President Trump's
Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American, the Department of Justice
will not tolerate employers who discriminate against U.S. workers because of a
desire to hire temporary foreign visa holders," Attorney General Jeff
Sessions said in a statement. "… Where there is a job available, U.S.
workers should have a chance at it before we bring in workers from
abroad."
This is the first complaint filed stemming
from the "Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative," which was launched on
March 1.
A Civil Rights Division official told Fox
News that since the initiative's launch, the division has opened 29
investigations of "potential discrimination against U.S. workers based on
a hiring preference for foreign visa workers."
DOJ officials also told Fox News the
department has reached at least one settlement with a company discriminating against
U.S. workers in favor of foreign visa workers, and distributed over
$100,000.
There is no more abused immigration rule than worker visa
programs. The H-2A program, and other visa programs that allow foreign
workers into the U.S., was never meant to replace American workers or keep
Americans from being employed. These programs were designed to
take up the slack in seasonal employment and hire foreigners when
there aren't enough Americans qualified to do the job.
The latter reason is dubious and complicated, which is why
companies can get away with preferential hiring. In this case, the
transgression was apparently so obvious that DoJ sued. You can expect a
settlement by the company, who won't want to go through an extended legal
process.
The case will also act as a deterrent to other companies who are
abusing the visa program and keeping Americans from working jobs for which they
are qualified.
Digital Enforcement: Effects of E-Verify
on Unauthorized Immigrant Employment and Population
By Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Special Report, September 2017
https://www.dallasfed.org/-/media/Documents/research/pubs/everify.pdf?la=en
JEFF SESSION’S LONG BATTLE FOR THE
AMERICAN WORKER He is the only one in
the country that has consistently spoken out for the AMERICAN WORKER!
Sessions should keep dragging Trump
out of his amnesty closet and build the wall against NARCOMEX!
Los Angeles’ Mexican tax-free
underground economy is estimated to be in excess of $2 BILLION PER YEAR.
JOE LEGAL v LA
RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how
it breaks down; will make you want to be an illegal!
JOBS FOR LEGALS? 95 MILLION LEGALS GIVE UP HOPE
FOR A JOB IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
A Nation unravels and Mexico invades, occupies
and loots
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY
REPORT: The assault to finish off the
American middle-class is NOT over
“The report noted
that many illegals don't have jobs or have difficulty in landing
good jobs because of local laws.”
“However, it
identified several states that have begun easing employment laws so
that illegals can get a job.”
Forget the Border Wall, Mr. President. Look to the Hole in Worksite Enforcement Rules
By Jerry Kammer
PBS NewsHour, September 25, 2017
If President Donald Trump is serious about stopping illegal immigration, he should forget about the border wall and turn his attention to the gaping hole in the enforcement of immigration law at U.S. worksites.
Washington has been unwilling to repair this problem, despite three decades of failure since Congress passed the erroneously named Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). As a result of the law, the U.S. population of undocumented immigrants grew from about 3.5 million in 1990 to its peak of 12.2 million in 2007. The current estimate is 11.3 million people.
Presented as a compassionate but pragmatic compromise, IRCA coupled a one-time amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants with an employer sanctions regime to punish those who knowingly hired persons not authorized to work in the United States.
But the law came into the world with a fatal defect. Because of the clout of strange-bedfellows — a left-right coalition that united immigrant rights activists, Latino politicians, businesses, and libertarians — IRCA was stripped of a mandate for the executive branch to develop a secure means of verifying that workers were authorized. Instead, workers were allowed to present documents from a wide assortment of easily counterfeited identifiers, and employers were required to accept any document that “reasonably appears on its face to be genuine.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-forget-border-wall-mr-president-look-hole-worksite-enforcement-rules/
Forget the Border Wall, Mr. President. Look to the Hole in Worksite Enforcement Rules
By Jerry Kammer
PBS NewsHour, September 25, 2017
If President Donald Trump is serious about stopping illegal immigration, he should forget about the border wall and turn his attention to the gaping hole in the enforcement of immigration law at U.S. worksites.
Washington has been unwilling to repair this problem, despite three decades of failure since Congress passed the erroneously named Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). As a result of the law, the U.S. population of undocumented immigrants grew from about 3.5 million in 1990 to its peak of 12.2 million in 2007. The current estimate is 11.3 million people.
Presented as a compassionate but pragmatic compromise, IRCA coupled a one-time amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants with an employer sanctions regime to punish those who knowingly hired persons not authorized to work in the United States.
But the law came into the world with a fatal defect. Because of the clout of strange-bedfellows — a left-right coalition that united immigrant rights activists, Latino politicians, businesses, and libertarians — IRCA was stripped of a mandate for the executive branch to develop a secure means of verifying that workers were authorized. Instead, workers were allowed to present documents from a wide assortment of easily counterfeited identifiers, and employers were required to accept any document that “reasonably appears on its face to be genuine.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-forget-border-wall-mr-president-look-hole-worksite-enforcement-rules/
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