Mohave Daily News: Local

BULLHEAD CITY - The Mohave County Minutemen are distributing flyers to Bullhead City area businesses. “We wanted to help the employers with information they can verify the status of legality of their workers,” said county Minutemen co-founder Luca Zanna of Golden Valley.

“From what we've been seeing, a lot of them don't know about it,” added co-founder Virginia Hilton of Bullhead City.

The Mohave County Minutemen are inspired by - but not affiliated with - the national Minuteman Project.

The county organization has already distributed flyers to Kingman area employers, Hilton said.

“We want the employers to wake up here,” she said, “and be on notice that they cannot just keep hiring illegal aliens and getting away with it.

“There's businesses that follow the law and they're being hurt because they're having to pay out more in wages and they're being underbid on contracts.”

A county Minutemen news release stated: “We remind employers that hiring illegal aliens is a crime! Failure to withhold and failure to pay social security taxes is a crime. Non payment of workman's compensation taxes is a crime.”

Businesses found in violation of federal law can incur “costly fines, confiscation of property and audits from Federal and State governments - not to mention the shame and loss of clients that could come with public exposure of illegal aliens practices,” the news release stated.

The county Minutemen organization encourages employers to call SAVE - Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements toll free at 888-464-4218 to verify the immigration status of their employees.