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NEWS
FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
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For
release: November 3, 1999
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New
EEOC regulation will force employers to
re-hire illegal immigrants (which
is a crime!)
WASHINGTON, DC
-- Talk about a schizophrenic
government: The
EEOC has just announced
that if any U.S. company fires an illegal
immigrant because of
"discrimination," that employer will be forced
to
rehire him -- even
though hiring illegal immigrants in the first place
was a
crime.
Confused?
You're not the
only one, says the Libertarian Party: The
government seems to be confused,
too -- since it has officially
announced that it plans to force Americans
to break the law.
"According
to the government, if you fire illegal immigrants
for the wrong reason,
which is a crime, you can be forced to rehire
them, which is a crime," said
Steve Dasbach, the party's national
director. "So, you can go to jail for
hiring an illegal immigrant and
you can be fined for firing one. This pair
of paradoxical regulations
is enough to make you
paranoid."
Last week, the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC)
issued new guidelines to
protect illegal immigrants from workplace
discrimination -- even though
it's a crime to hire them in the first
place -- arguing that non-residents
are "especially vulnerable to
abuse and exploitation." Employers could face
a $300,000 fine if
they
fire an illegal immigrant with discriminatory
"malice."
According to the
EEOC, illegal immigrants are protected by
Title VII of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act, even though they are not
American citizens and, technically
speaking, are breaking the law
by
even being in the
country.
And if illegal
immigrants are fired for discrimination-based
reasons, they are eligible
for back pay and attorney's fees -- and
must be reinstated to their jobs,
even though, under U.S. law,
employers face up to five years in prison for
"knowingly" hiring an
illegal
immigrant.
"Employers are
caught between a rock and a hard place,"
said
Dasbach. "The rock is the
head of the bureaucrat who dreamed up
this
preposterous regulation. The
hard place is the Federal Register,
where
it's hard for ordinary
Americans to make sense of all the federal
laws
that control every
aspect of our lives -- often at cross purposes to
other
laws."
So Libertarians
aren't surprised by this damned-if-you-do,
damned-if-you-don't EEOC
regulation?
Of course not,
said Dasbach: It's just one more example of a
disease called "government
schizophrenia."
"The
government stopped making sense a long time ago,"
he
said.
"Consider: The
federal government has spent millions of dollars to
subsidize tobacco
farmers, while spending millions of dollars to
preach against cigarette
smoking. The government pays farmers
not to
grow crops, and then gives
poor people money to afford the high
cost
of food. The government wages
a War on Drugs, then classifies
drug
abuse as a disability, so you can't
fire drug abusers."
So
what's the solution? Like with any mental illness,
the
first
step is to
recognize that you have a problem, suggested
Dasbach.
"The problem starts
with people who turn to the government to
solve a social problem -- because
every time you give the
government
the power to do something you like,
you also give it the power to do
something you'll
hate.
"Ironically, that's
why the very people who wanted the federal
government to save them from the
scourge of illegal immigrants
actually helped create the EEOC rule that
protects illegal
immigrants.
Why? Because they gave the government more
power, money,
and
control.
"And the
very people who wanted the federal government to
save
them from the
scourge of discrimination actually helped create the
laws that make it
illegal to hire undocumented aliens, which
encourages discrimination. Why?
Because they gave the
government more
power, money, and
control.
In each case, said
Dasbach, once politicians had that
additional power, money, and control,
they used it in ways you
could
never predict, to accomplish policy goals
you probably opposed.
"One
definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing over and
over and expecting
a different result," he said. "As this new EEOC
regulation proves, that's
also a good definition of what happens
when
you ask the government to
solve social problems -- whether it is
discrimination or illegal
immigration."
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