I thought it was illegal to hire illegals....
Now it is illegal to hire illegals if you ask if they are illegals and they are illegals....????
So it is now illegal to follow the law... I am confused as hell here...
The Obama Criminal Organization is in charge
Just another DOJ-organized “shake-down” of an honest business...
A lawful permanent resident’s card expires, but their right to work is permanent, and in this case Culinaire was requiring employees to present a renewed permanent resident card to be verified as work-eligible. The Justice Department claimed this violated a provision in the INA that prohibits employers from requiring extra documentation from non-citizen employees.
Leftists WANT it to become illegal to follow the law -
how else can they control everything?
Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don’t. You can now be fined for following the law.
“We are living in the age of insanity.” - George Putnam
“Now it is illegal to hire illegals if you ask if they are illegals and they are illegals....????”
Yes, such a circumstance would be Kafkaesque, but this has little to do with legalities of hiring illegals.
From the story, it would appear that all they employees were working here legally.
“I thought it was illegal to hire illegals....”
They are not illegals. They are permanent residents of the US. The expiration of the card does not invalidate their residency.
Let me get this straight. A person who has been born here and is a U.S. citizen has to offer as much proof of employment eligibility as a non citizen? So the government puts a substantial burden on U.S. citizens and U.S. businesses, nothing hostile there.
Hang on it is illegal to hire illegals.
I only hope we take the senate, and then reverse a lot of damage the white house and Holder has done.
What this is really about is making certain people supply more information than others. For example, if you simply accept Mr. Whitebread at his word and give him work with the bare minimum of required ID but require Mr. Enchilada to supply everything on the I9 list, that is discriminatory . The I9 form says to supply this and that or simply that. If you make any employee supply both the and and the or items, that is wrong.
The other thing I ran into is if you think a document is a forgery you may NOT refuse it. You are not considered to be an expert on forged documents and will be sued. I had an employee who had a SSN that was multi-colored and was advised to accept it. I was strongly condemned on this site for doing so, but as you see, there are hefty fines and when fines are not paid, businesses are shut down and offenders jailed and even when you retaliate against federal authorities, like the man who shot FDA inspectors at his sausage factory, you are roundly criticized.
What does work is to tell an employee his SSN is bad. I noticed when we got letters from SSN with a looooong list of bad SSn numbers, most offending employees feared deportation and left (as you well know that was extremely unlikely). The other thing we accidentally found out works is for the Fed Trapper to come out in his official vehicle and uniform and sound a siren to call for coyotes. When he did that more than half of the laborers ran never to return.
I worked in HR and payroll for years and was required to verify I-9 information to prove employment eligibility.
But you have to do it for both citizens and non citizens.
Form I-9 is used for verifying the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired for employment in the United States. All U.S. employers must ensure proper completion of Form I-9 for each individual they hire for employment in the United States. This includes citizens and noncitizens. Both employees and employers (or authorized representatives of the employer) must complete the form. On the form, an employee must attest to his or her employment authorization. The employee must also present his or her employer with acceptable documents evidencing identity and employment authorization
settlement is for those who are LEGALLY here.
It is illegal to hire illegals. It is also illegal to ask about a prospective employee’s citizenship. If you refuse to hire an illegal or ask about his citizenship you will be prosecuted. If you hire the illegal you will be prosecuted if you do something that Holder disapproves of if you are someone that Holder disapproves of. If an illegal alien applies to work for you, you have committed a felony by the mere fact of the application.