Should American businesses be allowed to hire illegal immigrants?
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Should American businesses be allowed to hire illegal immigrants?
Trump business empire shuns E-Verify, hires illegal immigrants
Just five of the 565 companies in President Trump ’s business empire are signed up to use E-Verify , the government’s best tool to weed illegal immigrants out of the workforce, according to a Washington Times analysis that suggests the president could personally be doing more on that front.
His marquee Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida is not signed up, nor are his golf courses in Virginia, Philadelphia or Bedminster, New Jersey — where, The New York Times reported Thursday, some illegal immigrants have been working for years.
The White House declined to comment on whether Mr. Trump still supports E-Verify, instead directing questions to the Trump Organization, the umbrella group for the 565 companies he listed as having a stake in on his May 2018 financial disclosure.
“We have tens of thousands of employees across our properties and have very strict hiring practices. If any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law, they will be terminated immediately,” a Trump Organization spokesperson said in a statement.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that runs E-Verify, publishes a list of every company signed up. There are more than 560,000 listed nationwide.
Among them are Trump properties OPO Hotel Manager LLC, Trump Miami Resorts Management LLC and VH Property Corp. There are also two separate listings for the Trump National Golf Club in Charlotte.
And there’s a listing for TrumpSOHO in New York, which appears to refer to a hotel that Mr. Trump’s business empire had a stake in running, until last year. A similar company was still listed on Mr. Trump’s financial disclosure form filed in May, though news reports say his name was taken off the hotel last year.
Including TrumpSOHO, that still means just five companies, or less than 1 percent of the president’s businesses, use E-Verify.
The organization did not address questions about why so few of its companies use E-Verify.
Not no, but Hell no! If they do, then they should be charged with harboring illegal aliens. That means anybody, but you deliberately intended your post to be a sort of trap any way didn't you?
It is unlawful for a person or other entity , after hiring an alien for employment in accordance with paragraph (1), to continue to employ the alien in the United States knowing the alien is (or has become) an unauthorized alien with respect to such employment.
“Any person who runs for any elected office should immediately sign up for E-Verify for any employee situation they have, whether they’re running their own businesses, whether they’re hiring labor at home, whatever it is, just as a matter of pure common sense,” said Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager for NumbersUSA, which has long called for E-Verify to be made mandatory for all businesses.
That’s also a position Mr. Trump took on the campaign trail — making his own companies’ lack of use all the more striking.
This reminds me of the tax debate. All these corporate leaders insisted that taxes should be higher, but not one pays a single penny more than he has to. Similarly, they might claim to support e-verify, but they hire as much cheap, illegal alien labor as they can get away with.
NO!!, the penalty should be very severe to employer and for the illegal foreigner