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Originally Posted by valkyrie
Can anybody provide a compelling reason why landlords should have a role in enforcing U.S. immigration laws? RC kind of touched on this, but I'm not convinced. Isn't this a case of the government being too lazy/incompetent to do its job and enforce its laws -- or, in the alternative, a futile attempt to do the impossible?
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I am not sure if I can come up with a 'compelling' reason, but the government expects private businesses and individuals to do the same thing when they make it against the law to hire people not eligible to work in the US. I think the mindset is if a person does not have a job or a place to live what benefit will they receive when coming here?
Unfortunately, just like the laws regarding hiring illegal immigrants has not stopped some people from employing them, there will be a subset of folks who will still rent cars to them.
Here's an interesting article from Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/sh..._1022_COX.html
One quote:
This is the issue that could make her and other Arizona voters hypocrites, says Vicki Oligmueller.
Illegal immigrants "totally are ripping off" Phoenix-area hospitals, getting care without paying for it, she says. Plus, too many of them haven't learned English or they drive without auto insurance, she says.
But then Oligmueller confides that most of the people who work on her and her anesthetist husband's yard, maintain their pool and clean their suburban home are from south of the nearby Mexican border and don't speak English.
"Here we say we don't want them to come over and they are wrecking our hospitals, but we're all using them," says Oligmueller, a flight attendant who usually votes Republican.