Speech #1040203904

What is the employer supposed to do? Under current law. if the employer asks for an INS work authorization. he or she can be fined. for a first offense. up to $2.000 per individual. Yet. if the employer continues to employ the individual. he or she will be taking the chance of unlawfully hiring an illegal alien. Remember that compliance with the law requires an employer to act in good faith. Would there be good faith under such zuspicious circumstances? Furthermore. in hiring the individual. the employer would be facing the possibility of investing considerable time and resources. including training. in an individual whom the INS might soon force the employer to fire. There is also the loss of the work opportunity for the legal U.S. worker. people we speak of here. In another example. a college recruiter cannot ask a job applicant. "Do you have work authorization for the next year?" That is discrimination because it would discriminate against asylees or refugees with timelimited work authorization. A recruiter may only ask. "Are you permitted to work fulltime?" Employers cannot even ask an employee what his or her immigration status Is. An employer may only ask. "Are you any of the following? But dont tell me which." I oppose any kind of employment discrimination. always have throughout the whole course of years.