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Until somebody decides to enforce the laws requiring verification eligibility of employment, I consider all this talk of illegal immigrants to be misdirection.
by mcculley 10y ago
Until somebody decides to enforce the laws requiring verification eligibility of employment, I consider all this talk of illegal immigrants to be misdirection. Convict the criminal employers who are paying illegal immigrants under the table. That would force wages up. Punishing the folks who come into the United States to work hard is disgusting.
- mc32 10y agoMost people don't mind immigrants coming to make a living --so long as they follow the rules most other legal immigrants follow. What most people contend with is people just coming in because they want to. Can I just land in Japan and get a legally obtained job without a visa, can I do so in Mexico as well? More or less the same rules every other nation has to control who comes in (and out) including Mexico, South Africa, etc. We are not outliers in this respect. It's a long process --sometimes involving multi-year even decade waits for people looking to legally migrate. It's not fair to them or to me (when I want to go overseas) to have people jump the line.
- mcculley 10y agoI don't disagree with any of that. I'm saying that enforcing fines or imprisonment for criminal employers of illegal immigrants is the only way to fix it. I live in Florida. Border control routinely rounds up undocumented citrus workers and deports them. Nobody ever punishes the farms that employ them. If they punished the farms, it would change things. I never see anybody push against those employers. I think it's because those complaining are more aligned with the businesses.
- mc32 10y agoOh certainly --that is where enforcement should focus on. Just like they do in China and Japan. Fine the employers and make them pay the ticket back to the worker's home country --forged papers, no excuse, get better vetting.