[T]he organization — which covers a variety of fields, including airlines, truckers, dairy farmers and more — also has a sizable share of immigrant workers, roughly a third, 40,000.Surely this is an indication that the third of Teamsters who are immigrants includes a lot of unlawful immigrants? How far can the union go in organized efforts to prevent enforcement of the law before it is a criminal conspiracy to aid and abet the violation of immigration laws? Lawyers among you are invited to reply. I assume that legal rights are legal rights no matter what, but this seems like a clear-cut case of trying to (as they say on the Left) 'obstruct justice.' I suppose it's legal to obstruct justice as long as you do no more than insist upon your rights.
After what happened to Garcia — one of many recent forced deportations — worry ran through Teamster shops, Miranda said....
Spinelli paid particular attention because many of his members — immigrants who work at a Long Island dairy farm — were profoundly shaken when federal agents raided nearly 100 7-Eleven stores last month in a search for undocumented workers.
“We deliver all the dairy to all the 7-Eleven stores in the city — you can imagine how scared some of these guys are,” he said.
And it sounds as if the law is itself a part of the conspiracy to avoid enforcement: "Employers also have the right to three days’ notice if the feds instigate what’s known as an I-9 probe — basically, a review of employees’ working papers, Cortés said."
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They likely do have many illegals. However, it is politically advantageous to liberals that immigrants be told they are all at risk.
I'm not totally averse to the 3-day notice of an I-9 audit, if for no other reason than that smalll businesses might well need the time to organize their paperwork--they don't have sections of HR to keep that sort of thing up to snuff.
On the other hand, I wonder how many of those Teamster unionized small businesses can handle the equivalent of a 3-day strike by a significant fraction of their work force as the illegal aliens among them disappear for those three days of audit. Or an extended strike as those I-9s identify many of the illegal aliens, and those are afraid to come back to work.
Eric Hines
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