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My general view as regards employers is that they should in most cases have the right to assume that those whom they hire are here legally. Cracking down too hard on them I think will start to make them look sideways at any Hispanic applicant, and I'm not so sure that's a good thing. But that's not what our main disagreement is about. Regardless of whether or not we engage in employer sanctions, we still should not be encouraging aliens to enter illegally, and that's exactly what happens every time a proposal is floated to give them any kind of legal status.

And bills for border security should be passed without being forced to have guest-worker provisions attached in the same bill.

My general view as regards employers is that they should in most cases have the right to assume that those whom they hire are here legally.

Why? We already make employers responsible for knowing about criminal history and drug use. And they have to know SSNs and report to the IRS. If they were doing that correctly, they'd know who was legal (and I suspect most do know)

Regardless of whether or not we engage in employer sanctions, we still should not be encouraging aliens to enter illegally,

We agree on that.

and that's exactly what happens every time a proposal is floated to give them any kind of legal status.

We disagree on that. I think we encourage them to come illegally as long as there is no legal way to do so.

We could build a fence along the entire Mexican border, and it would do no good. Boats can land on any of our coasts. And people could come here with tourist or student visas, and just never go home (a lot of people from other countries do just that. The 9/11 terrorists did.)
We are cracking down on the student visa violators, but we're doing that by making the schools track students. So why not make employers at least that responsible?