That's been my position exactly since the beginning. Throw these landscapers and contractors in JAIL, who enable illegal activity. That stops them from coming here, if they can't find someone to hire them.
BINGO!
How about making it REALLY PAINFUL on those who would dare hire an undocumented alien?
Drain the swamp.
Enact $500,000 fines and 5 year mandatory jail terms/count for CEOs/business owners who dare employ illegals. Require that business owners/CEOs/presidents personally certify on an annual basis(as CEOs now have to do with financials)their staffs are either American citizens or legally documented green card holders.
Then when the inevitable violations occur, frog march the violators off to jail ala John Regis, Dennis Kozlowski, Bernie Ebbers, Jeffrey Skilling, Ken Lay. A crackdown seems to have worked pretty well and gotten the message across in that sector.
We’ll never solve the illegal immigration problem until we remove the motivation for coming here.....jobs. Once it becomes too dangerous to one’s executive position or way of life as a business owner to consider hiring an illegal, the jobs for them will over time dry up and the illegals already here with no chance of any continuing income will self-deport. The ones considering sneaking in will have no further motivation.
The swamp will be drained without a need to “round anyone up”
I did my small part last year. We moved from Louisiana to coastal Alabama and the new house needed extensive landscaping in the back yard. When I took bids on the project I requested documentation from each bidder(3 total) that all of their employees were legal to work in the U.S.
Only one was able(or willing) to provide that. Guess who got the work? He had the 2nd lowest bid.
Additionally, I informed the other two that they might want to get their ducks in a row because they just might be getting a visit from ICE. The reactions were priceless.
Everybody could help out if they’d do the same.
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