Jail time is what the penalty should be. Throw a few in jail, and it will stop.
My company has a foundry in KC MO which employs between 900 - 1000 people. About 4 weeks ago the INS said it wanted to come into HR and check employment records. The next day 106 employees never showed up for work. While the company fulfilled its obligation demanding documentation what they didn't know is that such docu were forgeries.
So what is your plan? Shut down the plant for a period of time leaving the remaining 800 or so employees without jobs? Imprison the HR dept. for not being trained in being able to identify forged documents over legit. documents? Given the constant personnel changeover there it is unlikely anyone in HR was even involved in hiring any of the illegals.
We have since sent down one of our guys from our corp. headquarters to help in the hiring of now 200 employees and within a week, of the 40 people he had already hired, 20 had quit because they couldn't take working in the typical environment found in a foundry........
Lots of things could be done...
only problem is, GWB is not willing to do any of them...