WI bill targeting businesses that hire illegal immigrants fails to pass

Shallah Kali

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Thu Apr-22-10 07:34 PM
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WI bill targeting businesses that hire illegal immigrants fails to pass

http://www.wxow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12357629

Republican Minority Leader Scott Fitzgerald objected to taking a vote on the bill Thursday, which effectively kills it for the year.

The bill had bipartisan support but a coalition of business interests, including those representing the state's powerful dairy and manufacturing industries, are lobbying against it.

Under the measure, any company that has hired illegal immigrants would be ineligible for income or franchise tax credits or property tax exemptions for seven years. They would also be ineligible to receive state and local government contracts during that period.

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