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Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: July 6, 2007
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If a man loses a pair of pants and sues for millions it is on every TV station all week long, but the important lawsuits that can save America get no press.

I had heard of a case like this many months ago in California, and of course I have not been able to find any media coverage of the outcome.

The only force more powerful that slimeball senators are ambulance chasing lawyers.

If we want to really scare and stop employers from hiring illegal workers, lower wages and detroying the standard of living for the middle class we need to let the lawyers loose on them.

When employers see a few commercials on TV that say
“Is your competition hiring illegal workers and stealing from your table? We can get YOU CASH!”

That commercial would stop the immigration problem in the US in under a year.
This is why you dont see any coverage of these lawsuits, because they would work and they would solve the problem with illegal immigration.

Also this approach would punish the owners and businesses, so the pro-illegal immigrant groups have nothing to complain about.

Slowly and surely the problem would jump back over the wall as nobody would dare hire them. Also we would enjoy job market growth as niche industries exploded, like private investigation, background checks and all the new job openings for legal honest Americans from the clearing out of the cirminals.

Some excerpts from http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/01077/illegal-employees.html speak on the subject, and I encourage business to seek counsel regarding your competition hiring criminals.

“Businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants are increasingly finding themselves as defendants in lawsuits. In addition to suits filed by the government, these companies are now facing claims from employees, alleging the businesses drive down wages by hiring illegal immigrants, and from competitors, who claim the practices violate unfair-competition laws. At the same time, owners and managers are being arrested for hiring undocumented workers.”

“A businesswoman in Bangor was arrested and accused of helping businesses hire illegal immigrants on June 28. The woman, who owns The Mexican Store, was under investigation for helping illegal immigrants find work and living accommodations in the area. The woman’s husband is also under investigation, although he has not yet been charged. Court documents describe the couple as “labor contractors,” according to the Bangor Daily News.”

“Meanwhile, the owners of roofing companies in two states were charged with hiring illegal aliens and arranging for deported workers to be smuggled back into the United States. The men were arrested and faced 15-count indictments. According to a U.S. attorney, one of the business owners paid to have his deported workers smuggled back to the U.S. right away so the workers could go back to work. The men allegedly laundered over $6 million in payments to illegal immigrants.”

“Competitors of companies that hire illegal immigrants have started filing lawsuits alleging that companies that hire illegal workers break unfair-competition laws. One such lawsuit was filed by a temporary employment agency that supplies farm workers. The agency claimed that a grower had a contract with the temp agency but broke the agreement so it could hire illegal immigrants. The suit also named two competing companies that supplied the illegal workers. The lawsuit, which is backed by the Immigration Reform Law Institute, seeks $1.7 million in damages. ”

“As more businesses learn that their competitors are hiring illegal immigrants, more lawsuits will likely be filed. Employers can face civil penalties if they are found to have knowingly hired illegal immigrants. “

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8 Responses to “Sue Your Competition”

KIREN LENUS on July 6th, 2007 12:22 pm

I AM AN AMERICAN BORN AND RAISE HERE. I CAN NOT STAND THE FACT THAT YOU MAKE IMMIGRANTS TO BE CRIMINALS. NO MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD IS ASK TO BE BORN. AND CERTAINLEY NOT IN POVERTY SO AS A MOTHER IF I WAS BORN OUTSIDE THE US IN A DANGEROUS PLACE AND MY CHID WAS IN PAIN I WOULD TRY MY BEST TO PLACE THEM IN A BETTER PLACE. I THINK ALL THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO COMMIT CRIME SHOULD BE SENT BACK ASAP AND NOT WAIST OUR TAX DOLLARS TO FEED AND KEEP THEM IN JAIL.IT I HAVE A FREIND I KNOW WHO HAS BEEN LIVING AND WORKING IN THE US FOR 10 PLUS YEARS HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN HE HAS 2 KIDS AND HIS AMERICAN WIFE HAS ONE ON THE WAY HE WAS PAYING TAXES NOT ON GOVERMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM HIS WIFE IS NOT ABLE TO WORK. FEW WEEKS AGO THEY ARRESTED HIM AND HE IS NOW AWAITING TRAIL THE GOVERMENT IN MY EYES IS WAISTING OUR TAXE DOLLARS TO KEEP HIM IN JAIL ESPECIALLY WHEN HE WAS MISSED INFORMED BY HIS LAWYER ABOUT A IMMIGRATION COURT DATE. NOW HIS WIFE OF 3 YEARS HAS TO GO ON GOVERMENT ASSISTANCE AND THE GOVERMENT HAS TO FEDD, AND KEEP HIM AND ALL THAT MONEY IS OUR TAX DOLLARS, NO WONDER NOW I’LL HAVE TO WORK UNTILL I AM 75 TO RETIER. AND NO BUT THE ONES THAT ARE HELPPING SHOULD HAVE A SECOND CHANCE WHO ARE WE TO SAY WE ARE BETTER THAN ANY NATION AND WE CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT TURN OUR BACK ON PEOPLE WHO TRULY NEED HELP. I AM 100% SURE SOME WHERE DOWN THE LINE Michael Kraft YOUR FAMILY WAS AN IMMIGRANT AND IF NO ONE GAVE THEM A SECOND CHANCE YOU PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE HERE.
Michael Kraft on July 6th, 2007 12:40 pm

I will resist the temptation to delete the comment that is in all Caps, please drop the caps in future comments.

I too had a misinformed court date from my immigration lawyer when handling my Wifes case, it setus back 18 months during which time she couldnt work and we lost the income.

And yes my family is a legal immigrant family, as is my wife and her extended family that I helped to come here as well.

Everyone listed came legally in both our families, and because we followed the rules we are all Americans or legal residents.

Even the most active anti-illegal activist like perhaps Tom Tancredo would be happy for my family and our Hispanic members, since we followed the rules and achieved citizenship legally.

Those coming illegally are not Americans, they are foreign lawbreakers tresspassing and working in America.
Gene on July 6th, 2007 3:01 pm

Dear Michael,

I agree with you 100%. This country was founded as a land of laws because the founders did not want individuals dictating to the people, much like the monarch’s of Europe. We cannot succumb to the whimsical desires of people who want to break the law when they deem it necessary. From the common person, all the way up the President, all should be held accountable for actions that do not follow the law.

Of course laws can be changed and history proves they will when the people deem it as the correct course of action. Thus, the senate’s immigration bill was shot down due to the voice of the people. We demand to be secure in our persons before there is any talk of granting law breakers amnesty.

As for KIREN LENUS’ comment: “I can not stand the fact that you make immigrants to be criminals.” Immigrates are not criminals, illegal immigrants are criminals. Ignorance seems to be the norm for Kiren’s argument. “If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.” - Leo Buscaglia

You’re right on the money for suggesting that the unlawful employers should pay a heavy price for their greed and unlawful practices. The lawyers need to pick up the law and hit’em where it hurts, the pocket book.
Bettybb on July 6th, 2007 4:21 pm

Love sending the lawyers after the exploiters! What a great idea. And you are right, it could close down the hiring of illegals very quickly. One lawsuit in each state should do it.

Of course we should have compassion for the poor. The problem is we cannot open our doors and let all the world’s poor in. And there is no reason why the poor cannot apply to come to the USA legally.

By the way congratulations Gene and family! It is nice to know there are people out there who are doing it right,,, and getting into the USA.

Sometimes I wonder if the illegal immigrants really want to be citizens or whether they are just here for the economic opportunity. It appear a lot do not even bother to go after citizenship even if they have a green card. Certainly the Latino contingent has not made a large effort to intergret into our society.

But I am glad that these issues are finally getting some attention, and that in terms of security our borders it will not be too late vis a vis al quaida.
Michael Kraft on July 6th, 2007 4:30 pm

Gene and Betty you are far more moderate and even tempered than I am, and I am envious.

You both state the facts in a fair even way.

I hope the lawyers get busy and start crafting 50,000,000$ lawsuits.

I would suggest they Start with IHOP International House Of Pancakes on WT HARRIS in Charlotte at North Tryon.

ICE would fill a bus with violations in there. Unless of course the US is now giving work visas to 40 year old busboys who speak no english? Im pretty Sure IHOP isnt soliciting work visas.

IHOP has deep pockets, so some Charlotte Lawyer should get busy on that.
Michael Kraft on July 6th, 2007 4:34 pm

“I CAN NOT STAND THE FACT THAT YOU MAKE IMMIGRANTS TO BE CRIMINALS”

That is not true, My whole family is immigrant from South America and my kids are bilingual.

I do say that all illegal immigrants are criminals.

Which they are, thus the word illegal.
JAMEs Driscoll on July 6th, 2007 10:59 pm

Article in SF Chronicle
Tolerating illegal immigration is
discriminatory.

End immigration discrimination
James P. Driscoll
Thursday, June 28, 2007
U.S. immigration practices are biased. We maintain a double standard that gives immigrants who enter illegally better opportunities than those who obey our laws. Legal immigration requires complex bureaucratic procedures and long waits, with no guarantee of success at the end. Illegal immigration merely involves crossing the porous U.S. border without getting caught.

We impose tight security on all who enter through our airports. Security along U.S. land borders, however, remains notoriously lax. Mexicans and Central Americans can readily slip across our southern border and millions have. But for most Asians and Africans, the only practical option is legal entry by air. Lax land enforcement opens broad immigration channels for Latin Americans that are inaccessible to Asians and Africans.

Asians and Africans have a more urgent need to immigrate because of noneconomic pressures than Latin Americans, whose homelands are comparatively wealthier, freer and less populated. For example, 5 million Burmese have fled their country’s oppressive regime to live in abject poverty as despised aliens in neighboring countries such as Thailand. Many speak English and would like to immigrate here, but biased U.S. immigration policy practices do not give them a fair chance. The same story holds for tens of millions of other Asians and Africans facing political, religious and ethnic persecution. We admit few of them as legal immigrants; instead, we leave our back door ajar for multitudes of illegal immigrants seeking not freedom but only higher wages.

The U.S. record of discrimination against Asian and African immigrants is long and shameful. In the 19th century, Chinese were brought in to build our railroads and then shot and buried in mass graves. For decades the Chinese Exclusion and the National Origins acts deemed Asian immigrants “racially undesirable” and severely restricted their numbers, while imposing no limits on Latin Americans.

With African immigrants, our record is appalling. Millions were forcibly transported here to toil as plantation slaves. Early in the 20th century, we enacted a quota system that virtually barred Africans and favored Northern Europeans. After 1965, as demand for cheap labor rose, we replaced the quotas with policies and practices that favor Latin Americans. Today, eager for low cost labor and tacitly preferring illegal browns to legal blacks, we still decline to give African workers an equal opportunity to immigrate.

To favor people who enter by breaking our laws over people who aspire to become law-abiding U.S. citizens is manifest folly. To discriminate against Asian and African immigrants by favoring Latinos is racist and a betrayal of America’s unifying values.

Immigration discrimination is wrong: It should be illegal. Equal protection of the law, which bans racial, religious, and ethnic discrimination, ought to apply to those seeking a legal path to citizenship, not just current citizens. Equal protection of the law is not a quirk of the Constitution; it is a self-evident human right. Congress and the courts have a moral obligation to end government practices that foster de facto racial, religious and ethnic discrimination. To be just and fair to all, and safeguard against terrorism, we must secure our land borders as diligently as we secure entry by air.

Notwithstanding, the contribution of immigrants to America’s creativity and economic growth is undeniable, as is the need for more selective legal immigration. Once America’s immigration challenges are honestly assessed, we can recognize the necessary reforms: 1) increase legal immigration and give it flexibility to respond to our economy’s changing needs; 2) select immigrants by ability to contribute and in order to relieve severe hardship and oppression; 3) minimize illegal immigration by improving land border security and curbing employment incentives; 4) give members of all races and ethnic groups equal opportunity to become American citizens.

If Congress and the president are serious about immigration reform, ending immigration discrimination should top their reform agendas. Far from being genuine reforms, the current “comprehensive” proposals extend and legalize racially biased practices.

Ending discrimination is the right and moral thing to do: that is sufficient reason to do it. It will also have crucial benefits. We will gain a more balanced selection of immigrants who will assimilate more readily and better reflect the rich variety of global culture. Such diversity will strengthen our economy and society by broadening our talent pool. Most important, America will at last realize the full meaning of “all men are created equal” by applying it to immigrants.

James P. Driscoll, a long time AIDS activist in San Francisco and Washington, served on the International Committee of the Presidential AIDS Advisory Council. He arrived at these concerns after working with international AIDS issues.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/28/EDG6QQ4T6P1.DTL

This article appeared on page B - 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Michael Kraft on July 8th, 2007 12:55 am