Don’t call me pro-illegal, I am not. I am practical and realistic.
Employer sanctions have been needed forever, that’s fine. Once you scare away the low cost labor and are left with the ones that are deeply into the system and productive citizens, do we then toss up a few internment camps and deport them? How do you want to handle the children? Let’s say we have a Lebanese mother and a Kenyan father and neither country will take the other? Do you want to split them up and ship the kids off with mom? How do you transport them? What about the bills they owe, the mortgages, the jobs that are left vacant, etc.?
This issue is far more complex than simply saying ‘off with their heads’. The more the conservatives stick their head in the sand about it the worse we look.
Than the Lebanese and Kenyan should have thought about the consequences of breaking the law before coming illegally. In America, we have a system of blind justice. You sound an awful lot like Justice Sotamayor.
There will not be a job after the illegal employer has his assets auctioned off.
More pro-illegal hypergole. No one is sayhing "off with their head." And it's far less complex than you're trying to make it. The Kenyan/Lebanese couple would have to decide which of their native lands to live in. No families have to be separated. Parents should take their children with them.
People sell their assets and use any proceeds as a starting point in their homelands. Any any who are as established as you say should have quite a nest egg from their illegal exploitation of the US economic system.
People who came here illegally made their own bed, and it is not the responsibility of US citizens to make them whole and to ease every complication when they end their illegal residence in the US.
I'm not opposed to some resettlement funds for those who truly need it.