Turning employers into law enforcement officers is bogus, particularly with all the fake ID that's out there.
There's a better way to round up illegals: a bounty system with heavy penalties for false arrest or harassment. Add bonuses for arresting coyotes and drug runners. Just put the training materials and applicable laws on a web site and set up test centers in strip malls by which to earn a credential and deputize prospective bounty hunters upon completion. The program would be Constitutional as equivalent to a letter of marque and reprisal, with legal action extending even onto Mexican territory.
Take 90% of the Border Patrol and audit businesses for their I-9 forms and photo copy of employees photo ID and SS card.
If they can’t provide them fine them the maximum and jail time for a second offense.
Include homeowers that pick them up on a street corner..
A few dozen doing jail time and the illegals will self deport.
Durring Eisenhowers time the L.A. area there were Border Patrol agents raiding businesses 5 days a week and illegals didn’t last more than 2 weeks.
I’d love to get a letter of marque. That was an absolutely brilliant idea.
E-Verify should handle what you believe is that problem. Fake IDs don’t work with that.
I’d wager a lot of unemployed Americans would be out rounding up illegals. Mostly legal migrants who heard of so and so cousin jumping the border living off our taxes.