Daily Outrage: Judges OK Workers' Comp for Illegal Alien

Seems that everyone except judges is scratching their head over a Florida court ruling that allows an illegal alien to collect workers' compensation benefits.

A panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee ruled on Tuesday that Luis Aragon was entitled to benefits after falling from a roof at a Jacksonville job site, suffering injuries to his foot and arm.

Concluding that the employer, HDV Construction Systems, should have known it had an undocumented worker in its employ, the judges said it was only right that the company foot the bill. To rule otherwise, the judges said, would have put Aragon's medical bills on the taxpayers, presumably through unreimbursed emergency-room care.

Other courts in other states have made similar rulings, but the issue is far from settled.

"The whole scenario is bizarre -- from the construction company to the judges," said George Fuller, an immigration-control activist in Florida.

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