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Letters to editor - Feb. 17

, Feb 18, 2010 (2 Reader comments)

Enabling employers should be ashamed of illegal hiring practices

In the article “Massive Firings in Brewster and a Big Debate on Illegal Immigration,” (Feb. 13, Seattle Times) Dan Fazio, Director of Employment Services for the Washington State Farm Bureau, has it all wrong.

He asks the question, “Where are you going to get a stable work force?”

It begs the responding question, “what’s stable about losing 550 workers because they lack authorization to be in country?”

He says, “Employers could keep raising their wages but you are just going to steal workers from the farm across the street.”

No. Legal workers are worth more. They’ve gone through the channels and waited in the lines. That’s the way it’s done. This would raise the wages for all and greatly reduce the government subsidies in education, public safety, health care and housing this illegal population demands.

Fazio goes on to say “…you really don’t know if they’re more legal than the next guy.”

Yes you do. Because as an employer you use E Verify to quickly check the Social Security number. That way you develop a stable, legal work force. It’s not hard. It’s just more competitive and there’s one thing that cheating employers like: unrighteous profits gained from illegal hiring and a virtual slave-owner relationship.

Honestly, all you cheating enabling employers should be ashamed.

Bravo for ICE.

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