What do you think of shutting down businesses who hire illegals?

Question

Do you think that fines are sufficient to deter this or should there be jail time served for repeated violations?

Answer 1

I think fines for the first offense are permissible. If it happens a second time, then it's jail time. I think shutting down businesses are good becaue if they hired illegals, then they've broken the law. I think if we get tougher on illegal immigration and enforce these rules then we would deter illegals from coming here.

Answer 2

Yes!

The intentional hiring, and even worse; recruiting, of illegal aliens is tatamount to sanctioned slavery.

Companies hire illegals for three primary reasons:
1) To keep wages as low as absolutely possible
2) To avoid paying benefits
3) They know illegals are FAR less likely to unionize, out of fear of deportation

The claim "illegals do the work Americans don't want to do" is pathetic. The issue is Americans won't do them for slave wages.

For every illegal (with obviously forged papers or no papers at all) that is employed by a business, they should be slapped with a $25,000 fine. Repeats should increase this penalty exponentially, eventually leading to the shutting down of the company and the Executives being held responsible for any and all penalties assessed.

Illegals are, well, ILLEGAL. This means they are not in the United States legally and thus anyone employing them is breaking the law. Period.

If we really wanted to correct the problem, America and other 1st world nations would pay a fair wage in their overseas factories. An hour's labor should be worth the same in Brownsville, TX as it is just across the border, yet we pay pennies on the dollar simply because of a geographical boundary.

Imagine how many Vietnamese and Cambodian boat people we'd have if they were only the distance of the Rio Grande away from us. And why? Because corporations pay workers there the equivalent of $2.00 - $3.00 for a full day's work.

Our economy is completely dependent on slave-wage labor, and to allow that to permeate our boundaries is even more incorrigible than the fact we allow it anywhere.

Answer 3

I think it is the result of the kind of person that will do anything to be a part of some trend, some social conscience, some attempt at making the world better... by hurting someone else with no thought of consequence or circumstance. These kinds of social Nazis are the worst kind of human being to me and I would rather have a country full of illegals rather than a country full of the kinds of people that call child services because of a bruise, the kinds of people that call animal cruelty because the dog had no water, the kinds of people that don't feel either alive or important unless they are holding someone else up to an impossible standard of American or moral perfection that only they can reach... usually on the backs hearts heads and lives of others less than they are.

To me, THAT kind of person is more dangerous than all of the people that have crossed the border ever...

They hold everyone up to a social ideal, so much so that they jeopardize the livelihood of a family and their employees and send an illegal back to Mexico... an illegal that will just make their way right back again within the year anyway.

So in the end... for all of your good deeds and concern... it accomplishes nothing more than you feeling better about you and absolutely nothing more.

Answer 4

First give them a harsh fine as an first offense then permanently close it down for repeat offense. The business should know that all laws are to be obeyed.

Answer 5

Definetely jail time for repeat offenders. For the managers who do the hiring, and the owners who are likely encouraging it. These businesses that do this disgust me. I once worked in a national chain family restaurant. Someone from my previous job who got fired during and INS raid came in to work. When I told the manager, he said he knew, that this guy worked there a few years back, and they hire him because they dont have to pay him too much to keep him happy and working hard

Answer 6

I think with the state of our country there should be jail time plus a substantial fine for the first offense then prison time plus loss of business for repeaters!

Answer 7

Yes but real fines first. Not slap on wrist. What they are doing is hiring illegals so they can get out of paying minimum wages. That also includes not paying in the income tax and Social security taxes on the illegal's wages. So they are not only hiring illegals, they are also evading paying income taxes on them as well.

Answer 8

Heavy fines for the first offense, large enough to make the companies not even consider doing it again. If it can be proved that the business owner(s) did not change, then fine them so much that they are forced to shut down.

Answer 9

Wanna be unemployed???? Its not black and white like you think people, and Trecedos, and Hayworths of America distrot the issuse at hand. Wanna put these extra rules and regulations on business onwers were gonna be for low economic growth people. We cant export like we used to because we lack workers already this just excaberates the problem.

Answer 10

Superb idea. After all, the key word here is ILLEGAL. Stiff fine the first time, then start in with jail time.