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Originally Posted by Farnsworth, L.P.
We already have a great employer verification system; most employers can verify your legal status and your work history before you finish filling out your application.
What we need is employers going to prison for hiring illegals, and convictions under the RICO organized crime statutes.
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an ideologically balanced panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disposed of the complaint last week. Canyon County didn't have standing to argue that the companies' alleged hiring of illegal immigrants unfairly upped the cost of providing public services, Senior Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled.
"We find it particularly inappropriate to label a governmental entity 'injured in its property' when it spends money on the provision of additional public services," Tashima wrote, "given that those services are based on legislative mandates and are intended to further the public interest."
Law.com - 9th Circuit: County Can't Use RICO to Sue Companies for Hiring Illegal Aliens
The 9th Circuit's ruling will have an impact beyond illegal immigration, said Marie Yeates, the Houston-based chief of Vinson & Elkins' appellate practice who represented defendant Swift Beef Co. The court goes much further than any other circuit in holding that municipalities can't sue over the cost of providing services for any reason.
"None of those suits pass muster under RICO," Yeates said.
Four companies were sued, one of which employed an executive who held seminars on how to secure an illegal I.D. and apply for government benefits!
The thing is, Canyon county was out gunned. The Swift meat packers hired a prestigious law firm out of Houston, while all three other companies had deep enough pockets to do themselves "justice".
I doubt Canyon county has the money to pursue this further.
It's not that you can't fight city hall anymore. It's more like city hall can't put up a fight on limited funds. 