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Originally Posted by aklim
You are going to need new laws to make it prohibitively expensive for employers to hire them. Of course some sort of provision has to be made where if the employer clears it with USCIS, unless he faked some documents or didn't do something right, he should not be screwed. As to landlords, WGAS? If they don't have money, I don't think the landlord will want to rent to them anyways.
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You mean it's legal
now for a non-citizen, someone who has no permission to enter this country, let alone work in it -- it's legal for him to be hired? If so, then yes, we do need some new laws, laws with teeth.
I agree that if the employer did everything according to the book, and the worker's papers turn out to be forgeries, the employer shouldn't be held accountable. Well, maybe a small fine, to make the employer very wary of hiring anybody who doesn't speak reasonable English in the first place.
As to rent, these people obviously find places to live. I don't think landlords accept cash for rent any more -- but the illegals can buy a money order on the first of the month. Landlords will rent to anybody with a pulse who can pay their extortion money every 30 days; I see it every day in my apartment complex. If the law came down on them -- strongly and consistently -- for renting to illegals, they'd change their ways. Not only should the landlord be fined, but the fine should include (but not be limited to) all the rent the illegal paid while he was living there illegally.
Their policy would change overnight to "
No hablas ingles? No checking account to pay your deposit? Then no apartment.
Lo siento."
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