05-18-2008, 03:27 AM
Ben Johnson Wrote:Why don't they fine employers an amount equal to the wages paid to illegal immigrants and send repeat offenders to jail. If an employment file doesn't have copies of sufficient ID to prove their employees' status as US born or legally resident they are guilty. Enforce initially with civil penalties. If they conspire to procure false ID for employees - big time jail.
Unfortunatley the government seems to support or at least tolerate employers in their quest to drive down the wages of the lowest classes of Americans with unrestrained illegal immigration.
That would make sense in therory, but we can not all think that these 20 million Mexicans are working for Home Depot or other established busineses. Most are working off the books for Jane and Joe citizen as their housekeeper, gadener, small mom and pop companies that don't pay taxes which drywall and refurbish houses, etc. Those not working are collecting welfare and food stamps on our dime as well as us taxpayers paying all of their medical bills and in some cases, hospitals across our country are closing down due to all of this free healthcare given to those illegal Mexicans with no helth insurance.
Then we are not even touching on the fact that all of those ILLEGALS are sending money home to Mexico and other countries from all their hard work here in the USA. Mnay of the Arab corner stores have been turning in for sending pennies back to their home countries where their people use them to make bullets. How's that for a kick in the teeth!