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Did you read the article?

“A major part of the plan will be to reduce the number of illegal immigrants by increasing enforcement of existing law.”

Apparently you didn't read the article thoroughly. Per the article: " Thompson will also call for stronger laws to force employers to verify that workers aren't illegal immigrants".

The part of the current law that needs to be changed is the part that allows local governments to ignore the current law without penalty (legal or financial).

Did you read my post #9? The Federal Immigration and Nationality Act already addresses this issue! per the law:

Per the law:"A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:

· assists an illegal alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or · encourages that illegal alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or · knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.

It seems that the vast majority of Thompson’s plan will be to force localities to enforce existing law by withholding federal money from sanctuary cities.

Again the above passage from the law addresses that issue.

He does suggest new laws and penalties regarding the hiring of illegals and the activities of Coyotes

I suggest you read the law in post #9. It pertains to every issue you have mentioned.

I still don’t understand your objection to Thompson’s proposal. Clearly there is a breakdown between the federal law as currently written, and the local enforcement of that law.

Thompson is proposing pushing enforcement of existing law - along with additional stiffer penalties for sanctuary cities to ensure that the law is enforced locally. As of now, the penalties are clearly not stiff enough, as federal law isn’t being enforced.

His proposal to allow the withholding of federal funds for intentional lack of enforcement would close the loophole that is currently allowing federal law to be ignored ... and act as a means of forcing sanctuary cities to enforce the law.

According to results, the current law is clearly ineffective ... thus changes in penalties are required.

I don’t see the problem here.