“But self deportation is the real answer”
When welfare is available and EBTs are handed out like candy, self-deportation would only happen if and when welfare and EBTs were eliminated.
“illegals can’t get a job they will leave on their own.”
Nonsense. They’ll simply survive on welfare and EBTs. Not only will E-Verify fail to drive illegal immigrants from America, they will simply ‘shuffle’ them around to other states.
At the cost of vastly increasing the power of the federal government to regulate private hiring. This is bad.
“E-Verify is not necessarily a bad thing.”
It’s unnecessary. If employers did due diligence it would be entirely unnecessary. Most employers do not and want a ‘cheap and easy method’ that saves them from making difficult decisions.
Heck, if I were working as HR, I could easily sort out illegal immigrants from the rest. They are not hard to spot.
“Or we could just have everybody show their birth certificate when they apply for a job. Call your Congressman.”
I have no problem with employers asking for this.
“Too many bleeding hearts out there screaming its not fair.”
So the solution is to vastly increase the power of the federal government? The medicine is worse than the disease. I don’t trust Barry’s regime not to impose illegal mandates (such as forcing RTW to ‘use the union label’, or ensure that ‘political dissidents’ do not get a job. Welcome to the USSA.
We were talking jobs and E-Verify not welfare. Of course you have to cut off everything and don’t forget they need to stop being allowed to enroll the kiddies in our free public school system.
Still E-Verify will go a long way toward keeping them out of the workplace. As long as that is what we use it for. Otherwise we will just keep the status quo which IMO is still better than legalizig them all and their trillion member extended families.
Its been great chatting about all this but the reality of the situation is that you have both parties salivating to legalize the illegals. Its quick, its easy and then they can all move on with their lives. So look for Boehner and his little axis of evil, Cantor, McCarthy and Ryan to push through an amnesty/immigration bill above the screams of all of us.