Earlier today, January 28 and in the aftermath of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' direction to the Florida Lege, Florida Politics reports the Republican Party of Florida Executive Committee passed a formal resolution last night rallying behind the Governor's call for passage of an EVerify bill this session.
Why does Florida --any state for that matter---need a safe and legal workforce?
County Examiner has written numerous articles:
- the fake father who forced a 12 year old boy to work in agriculture fields in Palm Beach County,
- the Stuart, Florida company whose officers were sentenced for knowingly hiring 92 illegal aliens, and
- the Fort Lauderdale-area illegal alien charged in Broward County with the hit-and-run death of a Canadian snowbird while operating a forklift at a construction site without a license required by OSHA.
So here comes a news release published by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) where five North Texas businessmen agreed to pay the U.S. Government $3 million for their role in a scheme to employ illegal aliens.
DALLAS – A North Texas construction company will pay the U.S. government $3 million for its role in a scheme to illegally employ illegal aliens.
This agreement was reached following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Five individuals have already pleaded guilty in connection with the scheme.
In a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Speed Fab Crete, a Texas-based builder, admitted it illegally employed individuals not authorized to work in the United States, and agreed to forfeit $3 million to the U.S. Treasury for use in promoting law enforcement activities related to immigration enforcement.
According to the agreement, which requires Speed Fab Crete to cooperate with the government to ensure it will not violate immigration laws in the future, the company pledged to continue to use E-Verify, the federal government’s web-based employment eligibility verification system; to comply with new internal verification procedures; to conduct company-wide training on immigration compliance; and to discipline those who attempt to employ unauthorized workers.
The company’s three owners, Carl Eugene Hall, Ronald Alan Hamm, and David Leon Bloxom, are jointly and severally liable for the full amount if Speed Fab Crete does not fulfill its financial obligations under the non-prosecution agreement.
Federal law requires employers hire only U.S. citizens and aliens who are authorized to work in the country and its a darn shame Florida Senate President Bill Galvano continues to stubbornly resist an EVerify bill that would codify into state law that which is already federal law---verify all new employees at all Florida businesses---in the hopes of thwarting labor trafficking schemes among employers who thumb their nose at our Rule of Law.
