Posted by
theguardian777 on Monday, February 11, 2008 2:38:57 PM
Something has been stuck in my craw for some time now.
What part of illegal don’t the illegal aliens, the apologists for illegal aliens, and the people who hire illegal aliens, understand? What does “knowingly” hiring an illegal have to do with the fact that the law is being broken? Who is protecting ‘legal’ workers in this country?
Our politicians are fond of saying that we are a “nation of laws”, if that were true then they would be enforcing those laws that we already have on the books to protect American Citizens from the unfair job competition, undue entitlement costs and social degradation that illegal immigrants have unjustly foisted upon our citizens.
We are not a “nation of laws”, but a nation of men, like every nation in human history.
Like any other nation, our laws are no better than the men who make them.
Men who write “knowingly” into laws are either corrupt or inept, or both, and definitely neither competent nor moral enough to represent the People in the Legislature of our State, or of our Republic.
Words like “knowingly” have no place in law, nor in any serious discussion of legal matters. Any law using such a word is no law at all.
Ignorance of the law has never been an acceptable defense under our legal system.
Ignorance of whether the person you hire is legal to work here is no excuse, either.
The ‘responsibility’ to find out the legal work status of a potential employee is assumed when one decides to exercise the ‘right’ to hire one. If businesses do not like the tools that the government affords them to determine that status, then they should force their politicians to address that problem, rather than lobbying for the insertion of wording that subverts the intent of the law.
The use of “knowingly” is just a way of gutting the law to make it totally ineffectual in enforcement against any unscrupulous company that intentionally recruits illegals to avoid fair wages, but can afford good attorneys to get them out of paying the fines when those illegals are caught working for such companies, yet guarantees that the honest small farmer or businessman who was forced to hire an illegal to help him get his lettuce picked, a ditch dug, or a septic tank pumped will bear the full weight of the law.
Where is the “equal protection under the law” that our “Citizens” are guaranteed under the 14th Amendment?
Larry M. Aden, Nemaha, Iowa