The state of Arizona has a newly created law that prohibits the business community from knowingly hiring illegal aliens. If businesses do hire illegal aliens in Arizona, they face losing their business license for 10 days on the first offense, with a revocation of their licenses on a second offense. It also requires businesses to use an otherwise voluntary federal database to verify the employment eligibility of new workers. This law was challenged by many business groups along with the Arizona Chamber of Commerce to argue the Arizona law unconstitutionally infringes on federal immigration powers. The law was upheld in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week.
National television news reports indicated last week that wage levels have already begun to increase in Arizona and their unemployment rate is beginning to decline because illegal's are beginning to flee their state. This Arizona law is intended to weaken the economic incentive for illegal aliens.
Now that this Arizona law has passed muster with the federal courts, our Florida Legislature should strongly consider the same type of statute for our state. A proposed statute could easily be incorporated into regulations for the Florida Department of State/Division of Corporations.
Florida would see immediate relief for our sagging economy, with a law similar that of Arizona. It would put our wage level back on track for legal residents in our state; it would also give assistance to the struggling healthcare industry that is required to treat these illegal aliens, without asking any questions. The cost of healthcare, and associated health insurance, would see a substantial decrease to the cost of consumers if this burden was lifted from having to treat illegal aliens. The deficiencies in our public school system would also immediately benefits from this type of legislation.
These are only several areas of Florida’s economy that would be immediately affected by legislation, like the Arizona law, but the possibilities are endless. Our state needs a jumpstart in our economy now and enacting legislation such as this is a good place to start in Florida’s Legislative agenda for 2008.
National television news reports indicated last week that wage levels have already begun to increase in Arizona and their unemployment rate is beginning to decline because illegal's are beginning to flee their state. This Arizona law is intended to weaken the economic incentive for illegal aliens.
Now that this Arizona law has passed muster with the federal courts, our Florida Legislature should strongly consider the same type of statute for our state. A proposed statute could easily be incorporated into regulations for the Florida Department of State/Division of Corporations.
Florida would see immediate relief for our sagging economy, with a law similar that of Arizona. It would put our wage level back on track for legal residents in our state; it would also give assistance to the struggling healthcare industry that is required to treat these illegal aliens, without asking any questions. The cost of healthcare, and associated health insurance, would see a substantial decrease to the cost of consumers if this burden was lifted from having to treat illegal aliens. The deficiencies in our public school system would also immediately benefits from this type of legislation.
These are only several areas of Florida’s economy that would be immediately affected by legislation, like the Arizona law, but the possibilities are endless. Our state needs a jumpstart in our economy now and enacting legislation such as this is a good place to start in Florida’s Legislative agenda for 2008.
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