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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
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PETER PRENGAMAN
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Frustrated businesses took their fight against illegal immigration to court Tuesday, filing the first in a series of lawsuits accusing competitors of hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair advantage. Anti-illegal immigration groups said the lawsuits were an attempt to enforce immigration law by creating a deterrent against hiring illegal employees. "We see the legal profession bringing to this issue the kind of effect it has had on consumer product safety," said Mike Hethmon of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a Washington D.C.-based group backing the California cases. In the complaint filed Tuesday, a temporary employment agency that supplies farm workers sued a grower and two competing companies. |
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
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A Santa Monica temp agency alleges a grower and two firms violated a state law on unfair
competition by using undocumented workers. By Molly Selvin
Opponents of illegal immigration are using a new legal tactic: Suing businesses that allegedly hire illegal workers, contending they gain an unfair competitive advantage.
In a complaint filed Monday, a Santa Monica-based temporary employment agency that supplies legal farmworkers sued a Central Valley blueberry grower and two other companies. The agency contends that the grower hired illegal workers, violating a contract to use the agency's employees. The California lawsuit is believed to be the first based on the state's unfair-competition law, legal experts said. Although the case may be difficult to win, they said, it seeks to highlight widespread criticisms that the federal government is ineffective in enforcing laws barring the hiring of illegal workers. |
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