Small Business against illegal immigration?

70% of small-business owners declare illegal immigration a "very serious" or "serious" problem, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.
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I didn't know the number would be so high.

Here's one persons reasoning on this...

In May, Orian lost one of his biggest clients: Munger Bros., a Delano, Calif., blueberry farm, which decided to use a rival labor supplier, J&A Contracting of Bakersfield, Calif.......

J&A, he says, provides cheaper, illegal workers, scooping workers up on street corners by the vanload and delivering them to farms. He says he has evidence of falsified Social Security cards to prove his assertions. And rather than filing a complaint with the federal government, Orian is taking both Munger and J&A to court. (A copy of Orian's complaint can be downloaded at fearnotlaw.com/gallery/download.php?id=34.)
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Of coarse they assert his company wasn't living up to contracts.

Apparently this guy, Orian, immigrated from Israel...and his general believe is...

"I'm not against anyone trying to make a better life," he says. "But after doing it myself, it hurts to see people using shortcuts, and other people taking advantage."
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Among a general view that's easily conceiveable:

Meanwhile, entrepreneurs who scrupulously follow the law are routinely victimized by competitors who hire cheap, illegal labor - a breach that routinely goes unpunished by the federal government.
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So now they're suing, and could very likely be on the verge of setting precedence with current RICO laws.

Such examples are...

The Global Horizons case follows a $1.3 million settlement in a Washington State class-action suit involving employees of Zirkle Fruit who sued their employer, claiming that it drove down wages by hiring undocumented workers. That suit was based on federal RICO - or anti-racketeering - laws, and was settled after a federal appeals court overturned a lower court decision to dismiss it.......

Employees have also filed an ongoing suit against Mohawk Industries (Charts), a carpet manufacturer in Dalton, Ga. "They are frustrated with illegals dragging down their wages,"
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Mohawk should be making it's way back to the supreme court soon and could be likely affirmed. If it makes precedence, and...

If enough entrepreneurs and employees hold illegal employers accountable through the courts, says Vernon Briggs Jr., professor of industrial and labor relations at Cornell University, fewer illegal immigrants will be able to find jobs here
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To some level, I think this may be the reasoning behind the push for 'comprehensive illegal immigration'. Can't sue a lot of people when it's 'legal'.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/23/magazines/fsb/immigration.fsb/index.htm?section=money_latest

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