" This committee literally dodged the illegal worker problem and will go back to Washington with all the data they have accumulated about border security from these Field Hearings and nothing about illegal workers will be brought forward. I believe that the illegal workers issue has already been decided. These Field Hearings are just a facade, because most of what was brought forward is available in government reports."
Here's the link: Bogus Immigration Field Hearings?
August 15, 2006
Butler County Ohio Sheriff's Office Does The Right Thing!
From the press release:
"Sheriff Jones has assigned personnel within the Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Division to oversee illegal undocumented alien information and investigations.
Their first priority is to seek out and arrest those individuals who have been classified as “Criminal Aliens” (those that have been convicted of certain crimes while here illegally).
Their second priority is to assist area Businesses in helping them achieve compliance with Federal Immigration Laws.
Their third priority would be to assist in the investigation and prosecution of area businesses and employers who chose to ignore the law.
Finally the Unit’s fourth priority would be to work with Federal Agents in the due process of individuals found to be here illegally."
Here's the link: SO Responding to Complaints on Hiring of Illegals 05-11-2006
"Sheriff Jones has assigned personnel within the Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Division to oversee illegal undocumented alien information and investigations.
Here's the link: SO Responding to Complaints on Hiring of Illegals 05-11-2006
August 10, 2006
A Small Immigration Win...
New York's Department of Motor Vehicles can require immigrants to prove they are in this country legally before allowing them to have driver's licenses, a state appeals court ruled.
Here's the whole AP story- http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060707-102156-3959r.htm
Here's the whole AP story- http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060707-102156-3959r.htm
National ID card (REAL ID) almost a reality!
The REAL ID is far from dead, New hampshire seems to be the hold-out. Now they are debating on whether to take the Federal Government's money bribe and conform. Let's hope they don't!
It is such an unpopular idea that the law that created it was snuck into a funding bill to fund troops fighting in Afghanistan!
www.UNrealID.com
MORE LINKS:
It is such an unpopular idea that the law that created it was snuck into a funding bill to fund troops fighting in Afghanistan!
www.UNrealID.com
MORE LINKS:
- The ACLU's page on Real ID: realnightmare.org
- Abolish Real ID Forum
- Public Law 109-13 (H.R. 1268) - Division B of this is the Real ID Act, as signed into law.
- National ID Cards and REAL ID Act
- UnrealID
- The Real ID Act: Real Problems
- Real ID: You Can Still Fight It discussion on Slashdot
- Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 discussion on Slashdot
- Does the Real ID act contain a Constitution-busting Trojan horse?
- Real ID FAQ at news.com
- California Debates RFIDs in ID Cards
- http://www.NoNationalID.com
Article V Amendment Convention - Congress breaking the law AGAIN???
Yep, it seems that the US Government is again violating the Constitution! All 50 states have submitted the necessary call for a second Constitutional Convention (you know, the thing where the PEOPLE call for Constitutional amendments) but Congress is not allowing it to happen.
It seems that Congress wants to be the sole controller of the Constitution (in violation of the law).
Anyway, there's a lawsuit going on in our favorite court (the 9th circuit court), to force Congress to follow the Constitution.
Here's the websites:
http://www.article5.org/
http://www.cc2.org/
It seems that Congress wants to be the sole controller of the Constitution (in violation of the law).
Anyway, there's a lawsuit going on in our favorite court (the 9th circuit court), to force Congress to follow the Constitution.
Here's the websites:
August 09, 2006
Personal-Injury lawyers - parasites!
John Stossel hits the nail on the head again!
Imagine if an evil business routinely deprived us of products that would help us live longer with less pain and more comfort. We'd be outraged, and lawyers would line up to sue. Yet something similar happens today, thanks to lawsuit abuse. Makers of all kinds of products are afraid to sell them to us because one lawsuit could ruin them.
Personal-injury lawyers claim they make America safer, but that's a myth. It's easy to see who benefits from those big damage awards we read about. Less obvious -- but just as real -- are the things we'd all like to have but never will get because of this climate of fear. Here are a few examples.
He goes on with really good examples...
FROM: Lawsuits Make Us Less Safe
Imagine if an evil business routinely deprived us of products that would help us live longer with less pain and more comfort. We'd be outraged, and lawyers would line up to sue. Yet something similar happens today, thanks to lawsuit abuse. Makers of all kinds of products are afraid to sell them to us because one lawsuit could ruin them.
Personal-injury lawyers claim they make America safer, but that's a myth. It's easy to see who benefits from those big damage awards we read about. Less obvious -- but just as real -- are the things we'd all like to have but never will get because of this climate of fear. Here are a few examples.
He goes on with really good examples...
FROM: Lawsuits Make Us Less Safe
Stir up hate in Europe, then get saved by Europe
This is somewhat old but, it's too good to pass up....
What prominent muslim figure, who was very critical of his government and responsible for much rioting, got his butt saved by said government via evacuation from war torn Lebanon? Why that would be Ahmed Akkari, the infamous Danish Imam, who was amongst those evacuated from Lebanon this past week.
Akkari, apparently vacationing in the very country from which he ostensibly fled, was evacuated along with 5,000 other Danes by the Danish government via the same embassy that was torched by rioting muslims protesting the prophet Mohammed cartoons earlier in the year.
Akkari, pictured above, is seen scurrying up a ramp past the Danish flag as he boards the evacuating vessel.
FROM:NeanderNews.com
June 05, 2006
Global Warming: The 20 year brainwash...
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
Why not give it a whirl?
Start by challenging global warming hysteria next time you're at a LoDo cocktail party and see what happens.
The article: Chill out over global warming
Why not give it a whirl?
Start by challenging global warming hysteria next time you're at a LoDo cocktail party and see what happens.
The article: Chill out over global warming
Speaking of copyright infringement....
This will be a busy week in the House -- Congress goes into summer recess Friday, but not before considering the Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA). Never heard of SIRA? That’s the way Big Copyright and their lackey’s want it, and it's bad news for you.
SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer's memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again, Big Copyright is looking for a way to double-dip into your wallet, extracting payment for the same content at multiple levels.
The article: The worst bill you’ve never heard of
SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer's memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again, Big Copyright is looking for a way to double-dip into your wallet, extracting payment for the same content at multiple levels.
The article: The worst bill you’ve never heard of
Illegals are immune to arrest but not you if you copy CDs...
When you ask "Why don't police arrest illegals for being in the country illegally?" you will get the answer that even though they are breaking federal law, immigration enforcement is not in thier jurisdiction but apparently, copyright infringement is in their jurisdiction.
Police officers in Danville, Virginia stopped a car for an equipment violation (e.g. tail light out) and noticed 'home-made' CDs. They used the pretense of music piracy to search the car.
Officer Goins stopped a car because he noticed an equipment violation. As Officer Goins exited his vehicle, McLaughlin, the driver and sole occupant, leaned toward the passenger seat. When McLaughlin told Officer Goins he had a firearm, Officer Goins observed a semi-automatic pistol on the passenger seat and several compact disks (CDs) in the car. Officer Goins suspected the CDs were "pirated," because they were in a "poor quality made CD case with the labeling." He requested assistance from two other officers that had received training concerning CDs. Minutes later, Officers Barker and Perkins arrived. Officer Barker testified that he saw CDs on the front passenger seat and on the floorboard of the car. He testified that "based on [his] training with the recording industry the thin cases and the homemade labels in the cases led [him] to believe they were bogus CDs." He explained: They were thin case CD's and the labels on them were real blurry. You couldn't really make out the reading on them that well. You could just look at them and tell that they were bogus. Concluding that the CDs were illegitimate, the officers seized the CDs they saw and searched the car for others.
The problem with this is that copyright infringement is NOT ILLEGAL! It's a civil infringement!
So apparently, local police CAN NOT enforce immigration LAWS (where a crime is committed) but CAN enforce copyright ordinances (where a crime has NOT been committed)!
Here's the link to the case: CARMAS (CARMUS) JONAH McLAUGHLIN
Police officers in Danville, Virginia stopped a car for an equipment violation (e.g. tail light out) and noticed 'home-made' CDs. They used the pretense of music piracy to search the car.
Officer Goins stopped a car because he noticed an equipment violation. As Officer Goins exited his vehicle, McLaughlin, the driver and sole occupant, leaned toward the passenger seat. When McLaughlin told Officer Goins he had a firearm, Officer Goins observed a semi-automatic pistol on the passenger seat and several compact disks (CDs) in the car. Officer Goins suspected the CDs were "pirated," because they were in a "poor quality made CD case with the labeling." He requested assistance from two other officers that had received training concerning CDs. Minutes later, Officers Barker and Perkins arrived. Officer Barker testified that he saw CDs on the front passenger seat and on the floorboard of the car. He testified that "based on [his] training with the recording industry the thin cases and the homemade labels in the cases led [him] to believe they were bogus CDs." He explained: They were thin case CD's and the labels on them were real blurry. You couldn't really make out the reading on them that well. You could just look at them and tell that they were bogus. Concluding that the CDs were illegitimate, the officers seized the CDs they saw and searched the car for others.
The problem with this is that copyright infringement is NOT ILLEGAL! It's a civil infringement!
So apparently, local police CAN NOT enforce immigration LAWS (where a crime is committed) but CAN enforce copyright ordinances (where a crime has NOT been committed)!
Here's the link to the case: CARMAS (CARMUS) JONAH McLAUGHLIN
June 01, 2006
Chemistry sets are on the virge of extinction...
So much for our freedoms...
The first startling thing Joy White saw out of her bedroom window was a man running toward her door with an M16. White’s husband, a physicist named Bob Lazar, was already outside, awakened by their barking dogs. Suddenly police officers and men in camouflage swarmed up the path, hoisting a battering ram. “Come out with your hands up immediately, Miss White!” one of them yelled through a megaphone, while another handcuffed the physicist in his underwear. Recalling that June morning in 2003, Lazar says, “If they were expecting to find Osama bin Laden, they brought along enough guys.”
The search was initiated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency best known for instigating recalls of faulty cribs and fire-prone space heaters. The CPSC’s concern with United Nuclear was not the uranium, the magnets, or the backyard accelerator. It was the chemicals – specifically sulfur, potassium perchlorate, and powdered aluminum, all of which can be used to make illegal fireworks. The agency suspected that Lazar and White were selling what amounted to kits for making M-80s, cherry bombs, and other prohibited items; such kits are banned by the CPSC under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act.
The Article: Don't Try This at Home
The first startling thing Joy White saw out of her bedroom window was a man running toward her door with an M16. White’s husband, a physicist named Bob Lazar, was already outside, awakened by their barking dogs. Suddenly police officers and men in camouflage swarmed up the path, hoisting a battering ram. “Come out with your hands up immediately, Miss White!” one of them yelled through a megaphone, while another handcuffed the physicist in his underwear. Recalling that June morning in 2003, Lazar says, “If they were expecting to find Osama bin Laden, they brought along enough guys.”
The search was initiated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency best known for instigating recalls of faulty cribs and fire-prone space heaters. The CPSC’s concern with United Nuclear was not the uranium, the magnets, or the backyard accelerator. It was the chemicals – specifically sulfur, potassium perchlorate, and powdered aluminum, all of which can be used to make illegal fireworks. The agency suspected that Lazar and White were selling what amounted to kits for making M-80s, cherry bombs, and other prohibited items; such kits are banned by the CPSC under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act.
The Article: Don't Try This at Home
May 27, 2006
NSA now has power to exempt companies from the law!
President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. Notice of the development came in a brief entry in the Federal Register, dated May 5, 2006, that was opaque to the untrained eye.
Read more:
Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules
Read more:
Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules
May 26, 2006
The Senators who sold us out! (Illegal Immigration Bill votes)
Here is who voted on the HORRIBLE senate illegal immigration bill (S.2611) and how they voted. REMEMBER THIS during the next Senate elections!
Here are the scumbags who sold us out to the illegals and NEED TO BE VOTED OUT!!!!
Here are the Senators that DID NOT sell us out to the illegals.
Despite how horrible the republicans have been, this is why I'll still vote republican when the choices are only a republican and a democrat:
38 democrat senators sold us out, 2 abstained (sold us out) and only 4 voted in our intrests. Therefore 91% of the democrat senators sold us out!
23 Republicans sold us out with no abstained votes verses 32 republican who voted in the interest of us citzens. Therefore only 41% of the republicans sold us out.
Let me repeat this: 91% of the democrats betrayed us Americans verses 41% of the republicans.
I have learned throughout my life that democrats are evil almost 100% of the time whereas republicans are evil about half the time.
Here's the senate record of the vote.
Here are the scumbags who sold us out to the illegals and NEED TO BE VOTED OUT!!!!
| Democrat Traitors | ||
| Rockefeller (D-WV) (1) | Salazar (D-CO) (1) | Akaka (D-HI) |
| Baucus (D-MT) | Bayh (D-IN) | Biden (D-DE) |
| Bingaman (D-NM) | Boxer (D-CA) | Cantwell (D-WA) |
| Carper (D-DE) | Clinton (D-NY) | Conrad (D-ND) |
| Dayton (D-MN) | Dodd (D-CT) | Durbin (D-IL) |
| Feingold (D-WI) | Feinstein (D-CA) | Harkin (D-IA) |
| Inouye (D-HI) | Johnson (D-SD) | Kennedy (D-MA) |
| Kerry (D-MA) | Kohl (D-WI) | Landrieu (D-LA) |
| Lautenberg (D-NJ) | Leahy (D-VT) | Levin (D-MI) |
| Lieberman (D-CT) | Lincoln (D-AR) | Menendez (D-NJ) |
| Mikulski (D-MD) | Murray (D-WA) | Nelson (D-FL) |
| Obama (D-IL) | Pryor (D-AR) | Reed (D-RI) |
| Reid (D-NV) | Sarbanes (D-MD) | Schumer (D-NY) |
| Wyden (D-OR) | ||
| Independent Traitors | ||
| Jeffords (I-VT) | ||
| Republican Traitors | ||
| Bennett (R-UT) | Brownback (R-KS) | Chafee (R-RI) |
| Coleman (R-MN) | Collins (R-ME) | Craig (R-ID) |
| DeWine (R-OH) | Domenici (R-NM) | Frist (R-TN) |
| Graham (R-SC) | Gregg (R-NH) | Hagel (R-NE) |
| Lugar (R-IN) | Martinez (R-FL) | McCain (R-AZ) |
| McConnell (R-KY) | Murkowski (R-AK) | Smith (R-OR) |
| Snowe (R-ME) | Specter (R-PA) | Stevens (R-AK) |
| Voinovich (R-OH) | Warner (R-VA) | |
| (1) Abstained from voting so they couldn't be held accountable one way or another. | ||
Here are the Senators that DID NOT sell us out to the illegals.
| Democrat Senators | ||
| Byrd (D-WV) | Dorgan (D-ND) | Nelson (D-NE) |
| Stabenow (D-MI) | ||
| Independent Senators | ||
| nobody | ||
| Republican Senators | ||
| Alexander (R-TN) | Allard (R-CO) | Allen (R-VA) |
| Bond (R-MO) | Bunning (R-KY) | Burns (R-MT) |
| Burr (R-NC) | Chambliss (R-GA) | Coburn (R-OK) |
| Cochran (R-MS) | Cornyn (R-TX) | Crapo (R-ID) |
| DeMint (R-SC) | Dole (R-NC) | Ensign (R-NV) |
| Enzi (R-WY) | Grassley (R-IA) | Hatch (R-UT) |
| Hutchison (R-TX) | Inhofe (R-OK) | Isakson (R-GA) |
| Kyl (R-AZ) | Lott (R-MS) | Roberts (R-KS) |
| Santorum (R-PA) | Sessions (R-AL) | Shelby (R-AL) |
| Sununu (R-NH) | Talent (R-MO) | Thomas (R-WY) |
| Thune (R-SD) | Vitter (R-LA) | |
Despite how horrible the republicans have been, this is why I'll still vote republican when the choices are only a republican and a democrat:
38 democrat senators sold us out, 2 abstained (sold us out) and only 4 voted in our intrests. Therefore 91% of the democrat senators sold us out!
23 Republicans sold us out with no abstained votes verses 32 republican who voted in the interest of us citzens. Therefore only 41% of the republicans sold us out.
Let me repeat this: 91% of the democrats betrayed us Americans verses 41% of the republicans.
I have learned throughout my life that democrats are evil almost 100% of the time whereas republicans are evil about half the time.
Here's the senate record of the vote.
May 25, 2006
Illinois screwing Americans FOR illegals!
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) has used his executive powers to create a state-backed low-interest mortgage loan program for illegal aliens!
Illegals get lower than market rate mortgages subsidized by the American taxpayer!
The program is called "Opportunity I-Loans" and should be a wake-up call for the citizen of Illinois to do a government house-cleaning in the next few elections!
RELATED ARTICLES:
Illinois Governor Creates Mortgage Program Benefitting Illegal Aliens
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Illegals get lower than market rate mortgages subsidized by the American taxpayer!
The program is called "Opportunity I-Loans" and should be a wake-up call for the citizen of Illinois to do a government house-cleaning in the next few elections!
RELATED ARTICLES:
Illinois Governor Creates Mortgage Program Benefitting Illegal Aliens
Home Loans For Illegal Immigrants
Some people are more equal than others...
Thomas Sowell hit's another home run with his Bordering on fraud series of articles.
Today he points out how Americans are royally screwed by illegal amnesty:
Some people are worried that amnesty will give illegal aliens the same rights that American citizens have. In reality, it will give the illegals more rights than the average American citizen.
Since most of the illegals are Mexican, that makes them a minority. Under affirmative action, combined with amnesty, they would have preferences in jobs and other benefits.
Those who set up their own businesses would be entitled to preferences in getting government contracts. Their children would be able to get into college ahead of the children of American citizens with better academic qualifications.
Other comparisons:
COLLEGE COSTS: Illegals who graduate from a high school in California can already attend the University of California, paying lower tuition that an American citizen from neighboring Oregon.
BACK TAXES: Under the supposedly "tough" immigration bill in the U.S. Senate, illegals don't have to pay all the back taxes they owe. An American citizen gets no such break from the government and can end up in federal prison, like Al Capone.
TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS: If an American citizen gets stopped by the police for a traffic violation and the cops discover that he is wanted for some other violation of the law, they can arrest him for whatever else he has done. But if an illegal alien gets stopped for going through a red light and the police discovers that he is in the country illegally, in many communities the cop is forbidden to arrest him for that -- or even to report him to the feds.
DOCUMENT FORGERY: If an American citizen forges a Social Security card in order to get a job, he can be arrested. Under a provision recently passed by the Senate, illegal aliens who forged Social Security cards not only get a pass, they get to collect Social Security benefits.
THE ARTICLE:
Bordering on fraud, part III
Today he points out how Americans are royally screwed by illegal amnesty:
Some people are worried that amnesty will give illegal aliens the same rights that American citizens have. In reality, it will give the illegals more rights than the average American citizen.
Since most of the illegals are Mexican, that makes them a minority. Under affirmative action, combined with amnesty, they would have preferences in jobs and other benefits.
Those who set up their own businesses would be entitled to preferences in getting government contracts. Their children would be able to get into college ahead of the children of American citizens with better academic qualifications.
Other comparisons:
COLLEGE COSTS: Illegals who graduate from a high school in California can already attend the University of California, paying lower tuition that an American citizen from neighboring Oregon.
BACK TAXES: Under the supposedly "tough" immigration bill in the U.S. Senate, illegals don't have to pay all the back taxes they owe. An American citizen gets no such break from the government and can end up in federal prison, like Al Capone.
TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS: If an American citizen gets stopped by the police for a traffic violation and the cops discover that he is wanted for some other violation of the law, they can arrest him for whatever else he has done. But if an illegal alien gets stopped for going through a red light and the police discovers that he is in the country illegally, in many communities the cop is forbidden to arrest him for that -- or even to report him to the feds.
DOCUMENT FORGERY: If an American citizen forges a Social Security card in order to get a job, he can be arrested. Under a provision recently passed by the Senate, illegal aliens who forged Social Security cards not only get a pass, they get to collect Social Security benefits.
THE ARTICLE:
Bordering on fraud, part III
Students suspected of crossing border to school
"TUCSON, ARIZ. – Students living in Mexico have been regularly crossing the border to attend school in a remote southern Arizona community, a misuse of taxpayer funds..."
"...an investigator he sent to Lukeville, a border community, videotaped students walking across the border to a bus stop, then taking school buses to the community of Ajo, some 35 miles away."
THE ARTICLE:
Students suspected of crossing border to school
RELATED ARTICLES:
Kids crossing border for school scrutinized
Ajo school fraud now confirmed
"...an investigator he sent to Lukeville, a border community, videotaped students walking across the border to a bus stop, then taking school buses to the community of Ajo, some 35 miles away."
THE ARTICLE:
Students suspected of crossing border to school
RELATED ARTICLES:
Kids crossing border for school scrutinized
Ajo school fraud now confirmed
May 04, 2006
Let's try NOT to catch the criminals...
Three attackers use pit bull to rob man
From NBC12 News
Richmond police are looking for three attackers they say used a dog to rob a man.
It happened in broad daylight in the alley between 32nd and 33rd streets. Authorities say three men came up to the 34-year-old victim Friday, armed with nothing but a snarling pit bull.
The victim tried to run away but was quickly corned in the alley and then allegedly kicked and beaten in the face.
"A woman heard this commotion and someone yelling ‘get them off me, get them off me,’ and she approached and the suspects took off," said Kirsten Nelson with Richmond Police.
The thieves got away with cash and a few belongings. A witness describes the dog as a light brown pit bull.
Anyone with information, please call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 780-1000.
Do you notice anything odd about this article??? Hint: they sure have a description of the dog.... But it's not PC to give a description of the three criminals!
here's the original article
From NBC12 News
Richmond police are looking for three attackers they say used a dog to rob a man.
It happened in broad daylight in the alley between 32nd and 33rd streets. Authorities say three men came up to the 34-year-old victim Friday, armed with nothing but a snarling pit bull.
The victim tried to run away but was quickly corned in the alley and then allegedly kicked and beaten in the face.
"A woman heard this commotion and someone yelling ‘get them off me, get them off me,’ and she approached and the suspects took off," said Kirsten Nelson with Richmond Police.
The thieves got away with cash and a few belongings. A witness describes the dog as a light brown pit bull.
Anyone with information, please call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 780-1000.
Do you notice anything odd about this article??? Hint: they sure have a description of the dog.... But it's not PC to give a description of the three criminals!
here's the original article
April 26, 2006
The Republicans are screwing us again!
Large telecoms are trying to shaft us by making us pay extra money for internet connections we already have paid for based on traffic. They want to sell the fastest connection to the highest bidders.
The idea of Net Neutrality is to keep the internet freely open to anyone and prevent the telecoms from screwing us further. Too bad that the Republicans have just defeated an admendment in the House that would help keep the internet neutral and open to everyone.
Here's the link: Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality
The idea of Net Neutrality is to keep the internet freely open to anyone and prevent the telecoms from screwing us further. Too bad that the Republicans have just defeated an admendment in the House that would help keep the internet neutral and open to everyone.
Here's the link: Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality
And on the subject of stealing from American workers...
H1B visa means "We couldn't find an American worker who would work for what we want to pay them"
More info on H1Bs
More info on H1Bs
Companies face RICO lawsuits on illegals
GOOD NEWS!!!
In legal cases with potential repercussions for businesses and employees, current and former workers are accusing U.S. companies of violating immigration law and driving down wages.
The federal lawsuits — against carpet maker Mohawk Industries, Tyson Foods, retailer Wal-Mart, and others — are winding their way through appeals courts. The Mohawk case will be argued today before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The class-action lawsuits were filed by plaintiffs under the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) statute, typically used against organized crime.
Under RICO, if a business engages in an enterprise of racketeering activity, it could be found liable for triple damages and attorneys' fees and face criminal prosecution.
In legal cases with potential repercussions for businesses and employees, current and former workers are accusing U.S. companies of violating immigration law and driving down wages.
The federal lawsuits — against carpet maker Mohawk Industries, Tyson Foods, retailer Wal-Mart, and others — are winding their way through appeals courts. The Mohawk case will be argued today before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The class-action lawsuits were filed by plaintiffs under the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) statute, typically used against organized crime.
Under RICO, if a business engages in an enterprise of racketeering activity, it could be found liable for triple damages and attorneys' fees and face criminal prosecution.
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