Dahlia Lithwick, in Slate, has an item about RICO and illegals which was argued before the Supreme Court by Howard Foster.

The case is Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Williams, Shirley, et al.

The question that was exercising the Court is this: are the employers of illegals full time criminals, or is this illegal immigrant hiring scheme, complete with the provision of fake Social Security cards just a sideline in their legitimate business.

Lithwick speaks admiringly of the defence lawyer’s forensic skills, particularly

the amazing claim that handing out fake Social Security cards is somehow central to Mohawk’s routine business purposes—and thus not a separate illegal enterprise—because “to do our business, we have to have ID cards … in order to fill out forms … required by immigration law.” Thus, providing fake documents seems to “allow us to do our business.”RICO-mania. By Dahlia Lithwick

In my non-lawyer way, I summed up the arguments for considering this kind of thing organized crime like this, in an article on the Tyson case:

RICO is a brutal weapon. It has been misused in the past, for example to attack political dissent.

But these suits are legitimate:

1.A crime has been committed. If Tyson is guilty, they’ve violated the Immigration and Nationality Act in order to make money. The technical name for this is “enterprise crime” and of course, it’s “Organized Crime” even if they don’t have guns.

2. Tyson made money from it. Tyson has 120,000 employees. (Every dollar an hour that they can lower their average wages is worth roughly a quarter of a billion dollars annually.)

3. American workers lost money. (See above.)

4.They’re suing.

We at VDARE.COM wish them luck

Oddly enough, the Wall Street Journal didn’t, but you can’t please everyone.

For those of you with nothing better to do…

I will be chatting with Kitty O’Neal and Jay Alan tonight on their super hot Sacramento radio show, The Afternoon News with Kitty O’Neal and Jay Alan.

The show airs weekdays from 4-7 pm (PST)…you can click here to log in and listen.

Good times, good times…

Reuters reports

Seaboard Corp. said it will close its Guymon, Oklahoma, pork plant on Monday [Mayday] to allow workers to attend rallies planned for that day in support of immigration reform, the company said. The plant has a daily hog slaughter capacity of about 16,000 head, the company said.

On Tuesday, Cargill Inc. said its five beef plants and two hog plants will be closed on Monday for the rallies.

Isn’t it nice to see that the schism that opened up between liberals and slaughterhouse owners back in 1906 with the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle has finally closed after a full century? Guess what? The slaughterhouses’ Cheap Labor lobby has won.

By the way, here is my review of the 2004 film “A Day Without a Mexican,” which provided the template for the upcoming Mayday demonstration general strike.

Michelle Malkin has audio [MP3] and lyrics on the Spanish parody of the National Anthem that Bryanna blogged about recently:

Oh say can you see, a la luz de la aurora/Lo que tanto aclamamos la noche al caer? Sus estrellas, sus franjas flotaban ayer/En el fiero combate en senal de victoria,/Fulgor de lucha, al paso de la libertada,/Por la noche decian: “Se va defendiendo!”
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It gets worse after that.

Michelle adds that

I’m sure we’ll see it printed on the Spanish version of the White House website any day now.

Sí?

Sí.

By the way, there have been in serious, well meant attempts to translate The Star-Spangled Banner into Spanish for patriotic Hispanics.

This version seems to take off on the 1919 version by Francis Haffkine Snow.

UPDATE: A reader thinks I should point out, for the benefit of people who don’t click on links, the that the new song is not just a translation, but a travesty of the National Anthem, with new lyrics:

Coro: Oh, decid! Despliega aun su hermosura estrellada,/Sobre tierra de libres, la bandera sagrada?

Chant:

It’s time to make a difference the kids, men and the women/Let’s stand for our beliefs, let’s stand for our vision/What about the children los ninos como P-Star

These kids have no parents, cause all of these mean laws.

See this can’t happen, not only about the Latins.

Asians, blacks and whites and all they do is adding

more and more, let’s not start a war

with all these hard workers,

they can’t help where they were born.