Hey. Be nice. I'm not on the cheap. In fact I no longer manage a vineyard and am self employed. I do care for my country. I'm a former Marine. By the way, there are many foreign nationals serving in our military.
I am offended by the idea that we can continually burden retailers and businesses with more and more compliance issues. It isn't right. Taxes were not terribly burdensome to begin with, now most must hire professionals to do the work. It is that way in business too.
Does a business's wages encourage illegal immigration? Maybe. But I can say the same about your consumer dollar. What about me employing someone who does bad things with the wages, like funding the DNC? Am I not encouraging such activity by gainfully employing them? Punish the crime, illegal immigration. Stop them at the border.
Okay, but there are already millions in the country. It's going to be expensive to deal with them, but tough. War is hell.
Get real, you are comparing apples to oranges & you know it.
If we follow your proposition, to hell with our borders, throw them wide open, come one come all. I am sure there will be a few hundred million or so takers.