Loophole Exploited by
Illegal Aliens Seeking Work
"With
thousands of young adults who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children
now holding college degrees, Sanchez and others are finding creative ways to
get around the legal roadblocks and find a career. They are getting work
experience, opening businesses and seeking professional licenses in their
fields," USA Today writes. "Although federal law
prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, it does not
require those who hire independent contractors to ask for proof of immigration
status. As a result, the client who pays for services is not necessarily
breaking the law even if the contractor isn't authorized to work in the United
States, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a law professor at Cornell Law School."
Is Illegal
Immigration Moral?
By
Victor Davis Hanson
11/25/2010
We
know illegal immigration is no longer really unlawful, but is it moral?
Usually
Americans debate the fiscal costs of illegal immigration. Supporters of open
borders rightly remind us that illegal immigrants pay sales taxes. Often their
payroll-tax contributions are not later tapped by Social Security payouts.
Opponents
counter that illegal immigrants are more likely to end up on state assistance,
are less likely to report cash income, and cost the state more through the
duplicate issuing of services and documents in both English and Spanish. Such
to-and-fro talking points are endless.
So is the debate over beneficiaries
of illegal immigration. Are profit-minded employers villains who want cheap
labor in lieu of hiring more expensive Americans? Or is the culprit a cynical
Mexican government that counts on billions of dollars in remittances from its
expatriate poor that it otherwise ignored?
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