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Back in December I noted an interesting side effect of an ICE raid on the Swift & Company meat packing plant: legal laborers at the plant sued the company for hiring illegal workers as part of a scheme to depress……

“These plaintiffs are … victims in a longstanding scheme by Swift to depress and artificially lower the wages of its workers by knowingly hiring illegal workers,” said their attorney, Angel Reyes. “By lessening its labor costs and increasing its profits, Swift has severely damaged the potential earnings and livelihood of these hardworking men and women.”

What a Socialist tool. “Oh no, the evil company hired the cheapest laborers available! They’re only in it for the profits!” Oh, the horrors of capitalism and a free labor market. Woe upon the “hardworking men and women” (read: employees that cost more per unit of production… so less hardworking).

Is this the sort of things that Conservatives cheer now? Is anti-capitalism rhetoric okay as long as it cheers for nativism? What’s next, axing the First Amendment in order to fight terrorism? Oh wait…

Just as I noted in the other thread, illegal aliens cause everybody’s wages to go down.

It’s nice to see American workers going after companies who hire illegals by suing them. And I say that not only as a lawyer’s husband.

Frankly, Swift and the other companies who hire illegals won’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to trial. By being in violation of the law by hiring illegals — the large number of them is prima facia evidence that it was with knowledge — I think the only question will be is how large the damages against Swift will be or how quickly Swift offers a settlement in order to keep the plaintif’s lawyers OUT of their personnel records.

The question will be what happens in the future. I look for an attempt by business to go to Congress and the state legislatures to OUTLAW such suits in the future as “frivolous” or “unnecessary.” Just as big business has moved to limit product liability and medical malpractice damages by caps on recovery or the NRA moving to prevent the Brady gun grabbers from suing gun makers into oblivion.

Using lawsuits to stop companies from hiring illegals would be different from either of these examples, because hiring illegals is itself a specific violation of the law.

But I expect them to try anyway, by using either liability caps and/or preemptive legislation to outlaw employee lawsuits against companies by twiddling the labor relations acts.

Follow the money. Watch the Democrats’ financial coffers swell as the pro-business lobby tries to kill this practice.

So they were doing the work legal immigrants and U.S. citizens will do, but not for that lower wage. Whenever illegal immigrant advocates in the Hispanic community or business owners trots out this canard, it is easy to dispel the myth of “jobs that A…

Faced with high labor costs, businesses end up sending jobs overseas, the dreaded “outsourcing” that liberals and unions despise. With cheap labor available elsewhere–and knowing that American job-seekers will refuse to accept a lower salary for the same work–the result is to move the job to the lower labor per unit cost area. Or in Swift’s case, import the cheaper labor here, by allegedly knowingly employing illegal immigrants who are more than willing to accept marginal wages that Americans won’t–or can’t–accept. The legal immigrants and U.S. citizens most affected by this influx of cheap, illegal labor are Hispanics.

This is why amnesty will fail. The newly legalized citizens and those with work permits will be able to demand higher wages as the result in the change of their legal status–thus necessitating even more illegal immigration to maintain the normative depressed wages. Legal Hispanic immigrants and U.S. citizens displaced by more illegal immigrants. Seems like a logical solution to me.

Such a stupid lie to claim it’s the other way around.

Okay, back to enjoying Christmas with the kids…

heh.

By the same token, there’s widespread agreement that in chasing the almighty dollar, the industry has destroyed an indigenous professional trade/industry AND reduced profitability, successfully driving down wages but driving down productivity even more.

Everytime I hear that they want to give illegals or “guest workers” driver’s licenses I want to scream. Let’s flood another market with cheap labor and see the wages go into the toilet and have it become another job “Americans won’t do.”

It would be great to see this one resolved in favor of the “good guys”. It’s even possible that many of the meat-packing companies would prefer in their heart of hearts, if they could, to snap their fingers and have everything go back to the way it was. Doubtful they can, though. And if they tried, would their ex-employees forgive them and “take them back”?

Any lawyer types out there care to guess what the relevant standard would be, and what the plaintiffs would have to prove?

I’ve wondered that myself. For one, showing the sharp decline of wages in the meat-packing business from >$18/hr to

Before the ex employees and their lawyers became involved (which is very cool), the tear jerking blitz machine was already in overdrive.

You nailed it, there is a new victim in town and this one is a real victim; victimized, in part, by yesterday’s victim.

The courts need to be flooded with this type of lawsuit. It will force an honest discussion about the economics of illegal labor. There is so much dishonesty now that the Wall Street Journal is actually claiming in print that there are job shortages for jobs that have seen wages decrease substantially. That hasn’t happened since the great cotton picker shortage 200 years ago…down south there.

What we see as simple and proper law enforcement has been portrayed as brutal hate filled racism.

Sounds like Islamic psych media propaganda, if we do nothing, it’s over by simple demographics, if we dare enforce, it’s over by reactionary policy lawmaking.

I wonder, would the Israelis ask…now, how do you guys like it?
What should our next move be?