Russ, and others I am continuing to do my penance for having uncritically circulated an opinion gleaned from NPR and/ or Left Wing Rant Radio.
I have already conceded that my belief that border state gunshows are a significant source of modern Mexican drug lords armament is ... um ....shakey. However, my assertions about alternative tools available to Arizona Law Enforcement PRIOR to the new law seem to be holding up. The Legal Arizona Workers Act of 2008 provides that all new hires should be checked through the federal E-Verify system. If the law is adhered to, I cant see how an illegal could find employment in Arizona. However, the hitch is that enforcement of the law is relegated to County Attorneys, so I might still also be correct that it hasn't been thoroughly or consistently been enforced. Some text just below and at http://www.azag.gov/LegalAZWorkersAct/ Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] Legal Arizona Workers Act November 26 , 2008 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Legal Arizona Workers Act The Legal Arizona Workers Act, sometimes called the Employer Sanctions Law, went into effect on January 1, 2008. That law was amended in several respects by the Arizona Legislature, effective May 1, 2008. This Web site provides basic information about the law, as amended, and explains how any member of the public can report an employers violation of this law. The Legal Arizona Workers Act, as amended, prohibits businesses from knowingly or intentionally hiring an unauthorized alien after December 31, 2007. Under the statute, an unauthorized alien is defined as an alien who does not have the legal right or authorization under federal law to work in the United States. The law also requires employers in Arizona to use the E-Verify system (a free Web-based service offered by the federal Department of Homeland Security) to verify the employment authorization of all new employees hired after December 31, 2007. The Attorney Generals Office has several roles regarding The Legal Arizona Workers Act: * This Office is vigorously defending the new law in the federal courts, where several business associations, chambers of commerce, and others are asserting that the law is unconstitutional and are asking the courts to prohibit the State of Arizona from enforcing the law. To date, we have been highly successful and the trial court and the appellate court have denied several requests for injunctions. That litigation is ongoing, so please check back for any breaking news about the case. * The law authorizes the County Attorneys and the Attorney General to investigate complaints. However, if a complaint is lodged with the Attorney Generals Office, and if this Office investigates and determines that the complaint is not false and frivolous, the case must then be turned over to the County Attorney of the county where the unauthorized alien is or was employed, because the law does not give the Attorney General the authority to pursue sanctions against the employer in court. That power is given only to the County Attorneys. * This Office has created a prescribed form that may be used to lodge a complaint with any County Attorney or with this Office. The amended law specifies that any complaint made on this prescribed complaint form shall be investigated, while any complaint that is made in some other format may be investigated. * This Office has established a new Voluntary Employer Enhanced Compliance Program. Any employer that enrolls in the program and fulfills the programs requirements will not be subject to sanctions. The new program is explained in the Frequently Asked Questions, and the Affidavit and Agreement and instructions needed to enroll in the program is available for download from this Web site. Also on this Web site is a list of employers enrolled in the Voluntary Employer Enhanced Compliance Program. * Every three months , this Office asks the United States Department of Homeland Security for a list of employers that have enrolled in the E-Verify program using an Arizona address. The most recent such list is posted on this Web site. * As time goes on, this Web site will display more and more information. For example, if and when the courts begin entering orders against employers who are found to have violated the law, those court orders will be available on this Web site, along with names and locations of employers who have been sanctioned for a first violation. The Attorney Generals Office will do everything in its power to ensure that the new law is fully and fairly enforced in a non-discriminatory manner. If you are thinking of making a complaint, it is important for you to know that under the amended law, any complaint that is based solely on race, color or national origin shall not be investigated. At the same time, we want to do what we can to inform all employers in Arizona how they can comply with this new statute. This Web site offers information that should assist employers in abiding by the new law. We hope you find this Web site useful and welcome your suggestions about to any way to improve it. > [Original Message] > From: Russell Gonnering <[email protected]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 5/10/2010 3:03:17 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Arizona meets the Facebook community > > Glen- > > You are viewing reality through your own terministic screen, as do all of us. > > We seem to be using a different definition of "complexity". Mine is in line with the Stacey diagram of agreement/certainty or the Cynefin Framework of Snowden that deals with cause and effect. Perhaps therein lies the difficulty, and why I see something you do not, and vice-versa. > > In spite of that, we can probably both agree that the situation in Arizona is now out of any attractor well and unsustainable in it's present form. Unless a suitable attractor is found and amplified, Arizona will devolve further into chaos. The federal government has proven completely incapable of providing that suitable attractor well, hence the Arizona law, which both of us agree to be unsatisfactory, but for partially similar, and partially differing, reasons. > > That seems to describe a Complex Adaptive System-an attempt to adapt to a novel, and untenable, change in the system. Why do you feel I do not see logic in describing it as such?? You seem to be critical because I do not condemn the bill in the way you feel I should. Ok, that's fine. We differ on the weight and validity we place on our observations. You see the police itching to trample on the rights of brown people, and I do not. But what does that have to do with looking at the complex system into which the bill was introduced?? It doesn't change the fact that a suitable attractor needs to be found to bring the system into stability. > > > Russ #3 > > > > Russell Gonnering, MD, MMM, FACS, CPHQ > [email protected] > www.emergenthealth.net >
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