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RICO —Citizen Recourse
Private persons and entities may initiate civil suits to obtain injunctions and treble damages against enterprises that conspire to or actually violate federal alien smuggling, harboring, or document fraud statutes, under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO). The pattern of racketeering activity is defined as commission of two or more of the listed crimes. A RICO enterprise can be any individual legal entity, or a group of individuals who are not a legal entity but are associated in fact, and can include nonprofit associations.
Looks like something that can work with private law suits.
I wonder if this gives private citizens a way to completely bypass the ICE and law enforcement through nuisance suits.
Could you or I have a lawyer file a lawsuit against a local business — say a construction contractor, restaurant, etc. — that we know uses illegal labor. After the business has been served with notice of the lawsuit, offer to settle out of court the private civil claim for PAST infractions for some amount of money — say $25,000 — and a promise to terminate and never hire illegals again.
Yes, this would be an extortion tactic, but if they settled, it would accomplish both fining the employer that the government seems so reticent to do, and cut off the jobs for illegals.
If they do not settle, then you proceed with the lawsuit and include all the bad publicity for that business that you can generate along the way.