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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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