Constitutionality Of Employer Sanctions In Arizona Questioned
Arizona has a history of passing questionable Anti-Immigration laws, recently that has been SB1070, in the not so distant past there has been the 2007 Arizona Legal Workers Act, which required all business to use E-Verify to discern whether or not their workers were in the country legally.
With all of the concern that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has raised regarding the "problems" associated with undocumented immigration, cracking down on those in the country illegally and employers who knowingly hire them would make sense.
Not so say local businesses, who have benefitted enormously from the cheap labor provided by immigrant workers.
A Phoenix Fox News affiliate has the full story HERE, excerpts and video are below:
Arizona's employer sanctions law passed in 2007. The controversial and strict immigration law penalizes business owners who knowingly hire people who are in the country illegally.
The law requires employers in Arizona to use the ’E- Verify’ system to verify the employment authorization of all new employees hired after December 31, 2007. But is it working?
However E-Verify is problematic, as it often does not work:
14 people were arrested during an identity theft sweep Tuesday by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. The manager of that business says he used E-Verify -- and everyone passed.
Phoenix's Fox News station convened a debate between Randy Pulled, Arizona Republican Chairman, who supports employer sanctions, and Dave Seldon, a lawyer who will argue the law is unconstitutional before the U.S. Supreme Court. The video is below:
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