Instead of hunting down the illegals-?

Question

wouldn't it be easier to get to them through the people/companies who are employing them? At least the government has records of the American's who own the businesses. I know this is a simple "solution" but it seems that if they couldn't find honest work, they would eventually stop trying? So, shouldn't we just use the "border wall" money to put enormous pressure on the employers? Serious responses only. Please take 5 minutes to ponder this and then come back and answer. I am not looking for silly insults, I am looking for reasons why this would or would not work. Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes, not hiring them will be more effective than a wall, especially considering most illegals have let their documents expire after coming legally. If we continue to reward businesses who hire them, we might as well just knock down our wall and roll out the red carpet for illegals. As long as they can be hired, they will keep coming. If we stop hiring them, they will go home- thus also saving us the cost of deportation. As a side note, yes we are supposed to prosecute and fine them, but last year only 3 businesses were actually prosecuted, though many more were found to have hired illegals.

Answer 2

There's literally millions of them here. They aren't all working at a walmart in southern California. You wouldn't be able to knock out a good number of them without ruining the American economy by destroying the companies that knowingly or unknowingly employ them. Not because they'd have to pay more money to workers, but because so many companies would simultaneously lose employees that it would be hard to find people to hire to replace them. Don't believe this story about having to pay hire wages to Americans. There's still minimum wage, and it's still plenty "minimum" to hire someone to legally do it. Besides, there's always ways around minimum wage laws (waitresses). Many times they use false documents, remember. That would also put a damper in finding where they are.

I would say that the best way to stop them from coming is to improve the Mexican economy and way of life so that they have less reason to come, but that could take decades, and an internal revolution. And in the end, that would only get rid of the Mexicans.

We need to stop them from coming in, then we can focus on getting the ones here out. Right now it's like shoveling water out of a boat with a hole in the bottom. By the time we lift the bucket out to dump, there's another 100 gallons in the bottom.

Answer 3

The fine for an undocumented worker is a max of $10,000 per employee.I agree that removing jobs solves the problem to some degree.The trouble is the major hit the economy would take.However if anyone is serious about solving the problem it seems the easiest and most efficient way.Not to mention that the cost would be paid by the perpetrators.Politically,there is no bonus to this solution,and there in lies the real problem.

Answer 4

That's what they already did in my homecity. Immigration apprehended dozens of illegals quite a few times at some suburb businesses this year. They've been investigating several the businesses before the illegal's immgration parade last Spring. They also iIronically arrested Mexican indio illegals working at US Army base Fort Bragg awhile back. All we have to do is enforce the immgration laws we have now not make any more new laws and definitely no amnesty for these illegal Mexican indios or anyone else. It does work in some areas of the border states if we fully enforce the laws we have now and prosecute those who are here illegally. They have to wait in line like everyone else. Many of them didn't even attempt to go to the American Embassy. I saw several documentaries on illegal immigrants in the PBS channel.

Answer 5

That is what happened at the factory I work for. They came in and looked at the papers of the temp service and found 68 that were Illegal. They were deported and the company was told they would be subject to regular checks to make sure it did not hire illegals.

Answer 6

Sorry I don't have an answer just more questions regarding the illegal immigrant issue.... who is going to work in the chicken houses? who is going to work the American fields? Who will do the dirty work most Americans think they are too good to do and get paid next to nothing to do it? I understand they should be coming in legally but the process is too slow to accommodate the cheap labor demands. Here is another question.... why do the white American drug lords have to use illegals to bring their drugs into this country. Do you realize the 40 to 50 lb sacks of marijuana some Mexicans carry into this country on their backs through the desert are not for themselves and the money they are paid to smuggle the drugs helps bring some of their families here legally. How would America hunt down the drug lords that pay the illegals to smuggle drugs into the country?

Answer 7

What you are saying is fine but I would add that the Companies or Corp. Pay to have the Illegals transported back to Mexico or where ever they came from, also they should have to pay a higher tax bracket for every Illegal hired, and don't tell me they don't know they were Illegal when hired.

Answer 8

Yes it would be easier but President Bush and the Democrats want allow that to happen. President Bush wants to protect the company's and the Democrats want the illegals vote.

Answer 9

Good idea. Jail some corporate types and I bet I-9 compliance will go way up. Big fines will help pay for the fence. Make official hostility to illegals the national policy. No government services at all. Make it illegal to rent to them. ROUND THEM UP AND SEND THEM HOME!

Answer 10

They do go after the businesses that employ illegals. The business is then fined for having hired illegals.