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When you employ illegals, you're thinking more about what's going to get you quick profits

The problem here is that there aren't any quick profits. Business owners employ illegals because other business owners are employing them and undercutting them on price. To match that price, they need to employ illegals as well.

There's no magic here. If we're going to control the illegal immigration problem, we need to level the playing field by putting business owners in jail. Forget monetary penalties. Give them six months at the local pen. That should make them sit up and pay attention.

With regard to illegals, the INS has been cracking down. People I know have said that buses have been boarded by INS officers and people without proof of legal residency have been hauled away by la migra. A couple who posted bail of $20K said that other people in jail with them had been taken from various locations, while traveling on Greyhound or chartered buses. This is a recent phenomenon, and has not happened in the past. The INS is finally starting to get serious about enforcement.

If we're going to control the illegal immigration problem, we need to level the playing field by putting business owners in jail. Forget monetary penalties. Give them six months at the local pen. That should make them sit up and pay attention.

Business owners are more often than not retirees and small investors, while "monetary penalties" levied by the government just get passed onto consumers in higher prices for the goods and services they produce.

There are a couple of democrat Congressmen in Texas now jumping on this issue of the border. Well --- Silvestre Reyes has been on the issue a number of times previously and it's the one issue that got him to Congress in the first place even though he almost always shuts up and does whatever his democrat bosses tell him he must do.

http://www.usbc.org/info/2004/sept/turnerproposal.htm

Texas Congressmen propose $1 billion program to secure border

September 11, 2004

One billion dollars. That’s what two Texas congressmen estimate it will cost to establish an infrastructure investment fund specifically aimed at closing security gaps and bolstering the economy along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.

The two, Rep. Jim Turner, D-Crockett, and Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, said they would introduce legislation in Congress to transform the southern border.

Turner, a ranking member of the Select Committee on Homeland Security, said the legislation would take “bold action to ensure that we enhance security without hindering commerce.” The proposal comes after a six-month investigation of the U.S.-Mexico border, which Turner described as porous and susceptible to terrorist infiltration.

Why do I get the feeling I might get a belly laugh out of the character dictionary tomorrow morning? Depending on which transliteration system you're using...

Anyway, welcome to the insane asylum. Looks like you'll fit in nicely.