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Newt Gingrich and I both agree with your ideas about enforcing EVerify and so forth. The part that you are ignoring is the fact that a huge percentage, perhaps even a majority of illegals work for individuals as independant contractors, not employees. Their occupations include maid, babysitter/nanny, handyman, delivery boy, caddie, gardener, prostitute, livery cab driver, painter, the list goes on.
And then there are all the illegals working for the really tiny small businesses, the resteraunts, the mom & pop stores, the unregistered contractors, the independant farmers. This list goes on too. No doubt we can make things harder for these really small businesses, but you tell me how we’re going to police the independant contractors. Are we going to assign people to follow mom & dad home from their date night to see just who was watching the kids? It’s just not practical. And even if it were, it is clear that you are still not listening to what Gingrich is saying. What about the people he’s talking about? The people who have been here for 25 years, who have kids & grandkids who are citizens. Will they leave when you take away their livelyhood? Of course not. You will make their life harder, sure, but families will do what families have always done. They will take them in and you won’t have solved the problem.
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You have the stats on those employees and independent contractors? And whats the difference? If you hire then you`ve broken the law, period! Get caught and get burned. Seems to me you`re simply dismissing the whole idea out of hand, why? BTW, if you set up an anonymous tipster line and give the tipster ten percent of each fine, or a set bounty, then what will that do for the illegal population? Put a bounty on them in the form of rewards financed by the fines themselves and how many illegals will get turned in then? Imagine the housing packed with illegals and how tempting that will be to an informant if the illegals all have bounties? If you`re a landlord, will you risk renting if you know you`ll go to a federal prison and loose everything you own? And what does it matter how long they`ve been here, if they`re illegal they can`t work or get any assistance, period. Harbor them, help them, and you`ve committed a federal offense and opened an expensive and painful can of legal whoop@$$ on yourself.

Aid an illegal and loose your shirt to fines and your freedom to a prison cell. Along WITH a greatly stepped up presence along the border, you`re HONESTLY saying that won`t work? REALLY?