ACLU threat to small FL town: You must harbor illegals

Posted on August 17, 2006

This is rich. The ACLU is threatening to sue the City of Palm Bay, Fla. should it pass an ordinance designed to reduce the impact of illegal immigration in the city.

From the Orlando Business Journal:

The proposed legislation seeks to level the playing field for construction companies unable to compete with firms that hire low-wage, illegal workers. It would fine businesses that hire illegal immigrants $500 for each violation and keep them from seeking city contracts for two years. Third-time offenders would be permanently barred from doing business with the city.

But of course, the ACLU cannot possibly allow a city to get away with this!

Kevin Aplin of the ACLU of Florida’s Brevard chapter contends they discriminate against immigrants and fail to protect the community.

“Employers who fear retribution for hiring undocumented workers — even if they are unaware of their citizenship status — may begin to discriminate to avoid potential legal complications,” he says in a release. “The city is creating a a situation that hurts everyone and helps no one.”

Are you required to get a stupid chip implanted in your brain before you’re hired at the ACLU? This doesn’t discriminate against “immigrants,” this law would discriminate against ILLEGALS and the companies that employ them! Since when can a city not pass a law regarding immigration? The Constitution does not include immigration laws as the exclusive domain of the federal government.

OK, I have unassailable proof that, yes stupid pills are aplenty in Mr. Aplin’s medicine cabinet. From the Orlando Sentinel:

“What employers may end up doing is, for fear of not being compliant, they may feel it’s safer not to hire anyone who looks or sounds foreign, i.e., Latinos or anyone who looks brown,” said Kevin Aplin, vice president of the Brevard ACLU.

The most rib-cramping part of the ACLU’s argument goes a little something like this:

“It is neither the place of local government, nor in the overall interest of our country for local communities to assume responsibilities of the federal government,” said Howard Simon, Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida. “Preventing a chaotic patchwork legal system in which penalties imposed on employers vary from community to community is precisely why only the federal government should have the power to enforce immigration laws.”

So, the ACLU is concerned that the federal goverment will be hamstrung in the enforcement of immigration laws now? How ridiculous when you consider how hostile the ACLU is to immigration laws. In their threatening letter they can’t even bring themselves to refer to illegals as having done anything wrong at all while continuing to break the laws of this nation. From their threat mail:

Most significantly, the provisions of the Ordinance which places civil penalties upon employers for hiring persons whose immigration status “violates” federal law…

I didn’t add the quotes around “violates.”

Being that the ACLU has done significant damage to the federal government’s immigration enforcement efforts, hasn’t sued any cities that, say, forbid their police officers from asking a offender’s immigration status, haven’t sued any churches that harbor illegals and actually provides manuals that allow illegals to evade law enforcement…shouldn’t they send one of these letters to themselves if they are concerned about immigration law enforcement?

More ACLU hypocrisy. Shocking.

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4 Responses to “ACLU threat to small FL town: You must harbor illegals”

Oak Leaf on August 17th, 2006 9:56 am

Glib, IF the ACLU is against “legislation [that] seeks to level the playing field for construction companies unable to compete with firms that hire low-wage, illegal workers” THEN they must SUPPORT lowering the minimum wage.

I am waiting to see the headline “ACLU Supports Lowering Minimum Wage.”
Glib Fortuna on August 17th, 2006 12:02 pm

Ha! Great point! I won’t turn my face blue looking for that!
mattm on August 17th, 2006 6:06 pm

Since the ACLU doesn’t believe that we should have borders, this doesn’t surprise me.
kerwin_brown on August 19th, 2006 2:38 am

The ACLU should take a little time and read the actual U.S. Constitution before opening their mouth. The U.S. Constitution does allow the Federal government to deport illegal aliens from the U.S. but states and local communities have the same rights within their jurisdiction just like a state or local community has the right to grant local citizenship to aliens even if the federal government has not granted them national citizenship. Some cities allow illegals to vote in the local elections.