SS109 wrote:
It is a lot cheaper to let the illegals find their own way home than deporting them
And another poster thinks America would have to close all the McDonalds and Wal-Marts w/o illegal labor. If prices went up on fast food and cheap crap to pay for citizens to work there, obesity rates would fall and landfills would last longer
McDonalds and Wal-Mart are just two of the large corporations guilty of hiring illegal immigrants, although I wouldn't say they are reliant upon it like, say, California agriculture. You would have to fine them a LOT to make it hurt so I am very skeptical that fines have any impact.
Although, I wouldn't be heartbroke if McDonalds and Wal-Mart went away.....
LadyJazzer wrote: Again, I agree... I think they need to make the fine for the first one at least $50,000, for the second one, $100,000, and escalate from there...And it NEEDS TO BE ENFORCED. If they make it so that it's not cost effective to pay the fines and keep doing it, then it will stop.
Agree, Employers who routinely hire illegals need to be sanctioned. That being said, when I bought this up with family members who run pretty good sized farming operations they said “ we are not the FBI, if someone shows us proper looking papers we have no way to verify.” And I don’t think they had ever heard of E-Verify or even if it works. The point I’m trying to make is we need stronger sanctions against employers and a better means to verify that somebody is legally able to work. In the case of my own family members I can guarantee they look at the papers, but don’t really scrutinize the papers because right now they have no incentive.
