News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Hiring sanctions again on state agenda

Businesses repeat plea to leave immigration issue to U.S. authorities

Mary Jo Pitzl
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 20, 2007 12:00 AM

State lawmakers are once again grappling with how to punish employers for hiring illegal workers, who they believe are drawn here by easy job opportunities.

It's a familiar problem that prompts a familiar message from businesses that would have to live with any new law: State solutions won't work. Stand back and let the federal government take the lead on a nationwide standard to ensure workers are legally authorized to work here.

But the lawmakers are not likely to heed that advice when they consider two measures today.

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