why did the republicans not pass a law that it was illegal to hire illegal aliens ?

Question

was it because many of them benefit by cheap labor ?

Answer 1

Because it already is a federal felony to hire illegal aliens..

The following is an overview of federal law on hiring and harboring illegal aliens.

Summary
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization or local government) commits a federal felony when he:

assists an alien whom he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him to obtain employment,
encourages that alien to remain in the U.S., by referring him to an employer, by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Penalties upon conviction include criminal fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime.

Anyone employing or contracting with an illegal alien without verifying his work authorization status is guilty . Aliens and employers violating immigration laws are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. In addition, individuals or entities who engage in racketeering enterprises that commit (or conspire to commit) immigration-related felonies are subject to private civil suits for treble damages and injunctive relief.

Recruitment and Employment of Illegal Aliens
It is unlawful to hire an alien, to recruit an alien, or to refer an alien for a fee, knowing the alien is unauthorized to work in the United States. It is equally unlawful to continue to employ an alien knowing that the alien is unauthorized to work.

Answer 2

It seems to me they are both playing the "find the loophole in the law" game. As Kats pointed out....we already have laws. They don't seem to really want to enforce the law and want cheap labor. There are means to follow through on things and it seems they are hiding behind some very vague point like whether or not they "intended" to....."privacy act" to an extreem....not allowing one place to give information to another. I mean it's crazy that I can't go to the social security office and prove who I am and find out if someone else is using my number. Atleast not until something is wrong and then suddenly they can find me if it's a bill to stick me with!

I do beleive it's greed based. Business has always exploited people. If it wasn't because you were a child or a female, gay or a single parent or elderly or what relegion you were ,it was because you were another race and now they have citizenship status to add to their list. Big business has huge loopholes to protect them from all sorts of things and they ride each and every one to the fullest.

It's not just the republicans...dems do it as well. I look totally differently at bills they present now. It's not that it doesn't
cover why we wanted a law in the first place....it's looking at them with a devious mind to see how it can be manipulated and abused. And it seems nowdays....you can leave nothing open for interpratation. It's sad you have to look at it always in a negative light.....but abuses abound and it's rare, if ever, there's a problem if the pendulem swings to the "too good" side.

I knew back when Regan was talking his "trickle down theory" there was no way nothing was ever going to "trickle down". That's why there are obsene profits for the already wealthy and an increasing lower class. It's hardly a law when an employer can lie and you suffer more for fighting for your rights than you do by shutting-up and taking the abuse. I could just about bet the farm that alot of the jobs illegals are doing, are jobs that abused employees before, but they couldn't afford the legal fees to fight them, so people just quit working there. Fight them you loose your job and then you're seen as a trouble maker which ruins your chances at another job. So people just quit working for these places. In the past....it was sometimes enough to make the company have to shape up or go out of business.....now it just goes overseas or hires illegals.

Answer 3

It has been illegal to KNOWINGLY hire illegal aliens since 1986. However, that just lead to fake document surges and identity theft to give the employer denyability. Employers have strong lobbies and they have been fighting a registration system they could check for a long time. They are still fighting saying the one in place isn't perfect (and it really isn't) however, I think they need to use the best we have until we have better.

- Bayphoto- you keep saying that but all that will do is drive down middle class wages as well (which require education) and the middle class will be poor, too. The huge gap is with the executives and noone is talking about importing their next CEO from India, so you know. Greenspan is saying bringing unlimited skilled visas is an 'antiinflationary' step which should tell you something. It means it will lower skilled wages. The rich, who reap the corporate profits, will get richer, and the middle class will disapear.

Romney is in favor of skilled visa imports, which is one reason I remain concerned about him. (His support of a guest worker program is another.) So am I within reason. 100,000 is probably ok. Unlimited is not.

However, the poor immigrants take more than they pay in in services, even if they pay taxes. They will NOT support us in our old age, particularly since they want to bring indigent parents and put them on social security as well.

Answer 4

I guess the easy answer would be GREED, illegal hiring started 60 plus years ago and sense the Reagan days business more than ever is buying off the leaders of our country. Republicans are union breakers and are for cheap labor. Their way of looking at the average U.S. citizen is just
a another salve to generate more money for them. No I'm not a liberal. MONEY MONEY MONEY that's what the U.S.A. is all about.

Answer 5

I am a republican and it is a mystery to me. This whole business makes little sense. If it were as simple as cheap labor that would be one thing but it isn't. They even want to grant amnesty to illegals. You know what that means? They won't be cheap labor anymore if they are granted legal status. They won't have to work cheap, especially once they have gained skills.

So I just don't get it.

Answer 6

America is creating a lot more jobs than our capacity to make more babies, a lot more Americans will retire this year than young Americans starting to work.
Yes they have to be deported because they are breaking the law.
If we need more workers they have to be really educated in the field that they are going to be working and they have to come here legally to stop wages from going down.

Answer 7

Votes & money & Libs won't pass it anyway. They don't care what the American Citizens think.