What did he say would happen to employers who hire illegals? I think about 4 or 5 companies a year get busted. What is going to change? Where is the penalties? You make it a 5 year offense to hire illegals, the problem is over. There will not be any more problem. But, that isn't going to happen. The campaign contributions from agribusiness and the construction and the restaurant industries are so shiny and filled with zeros on the end.
"What did he say would happen to employers who hire illegals? I think about 4 or 5 companies a year get busted. What is going to change? Where is the penalties? You make it a 5 year offense to hire illegals, the problem is over"
He said they're going after them more agressively and will continue to do so. I agree their needs to be penalites for hiring illegals - perhaps a large fine the 1st time and jail time after that (and/or a much larger fine/illegal) would go a long way in helping to resolve the problem. As I mentioned, there are some issues due to the laws that were passed in the 90's that I mentioned and all of the forged documents - -his suggestion of tamper-proof biometric IDs could help here.