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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 08, 2017, 02:46:10 pm

Title: Ohio House passes bill to block workers’-comp claims by “illegal aliens”
Post by: rangerrebew on December 08, 2017, 02:46:10 pm

Ohio House passes bill to block workers’-comp claims by “illegal aliens”
 
By Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch
Posted Dec 6, 2017 at 11:55 AM

Despite a lack of public support from business, labor groups or others, House Republicans approved a bill on Tuesday that would block injured undocumented immigrants from filing workers’-compensation claims.

But the bill, passed largely along party lines, is likely to find tough sledding in the Senate, where Republican leaders wonder if the proposal would actually encourage businesses to hire more undocumented workers.

http://www.times-gazette.com/news/20171206/ohio-house-passes-bill-to-block-workers-comp-claims-by-illegal-aliens (http://www.times-gazette.com/news/20171206/ohio-house-passes-bill-to-block-workers-comp-claims-by-illegal-aliens)

Title: Re: Ohio House passes bill to block workers’-comp claims by “illegal aliens”
Post by: driftdiver on December 08, 2017, 02:47:35 pm

Isn't it illegal for an illegal alien to work in the first place?