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Why is the focus always on "closing the border" or other actions taken on the immigrants themselves and not on cracking down - hard - on the companies that ille
by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Why is the focus always on "closing the border" or other actions taken on the immigrants themselves and not on cracking down - hard - on the companies that illegally employee and abuse them?
Trying to stop or even slow down immigration without addressing the incentives that drive them to leave home and come to the US seems like a doomed and inefficient game of whack a mole...
- basetop 7y agoPolitically expediency. Neither the democrats nor the republicans want to go after the elites. So naturally they take turns attacking illegal immigrants. But it's all lipservice. Neither the republicans nor democrats want to stop illegal immigration. They want to use it to get votes. Stopping immigration isn't an inefficient game of whack a mole. It's been done before through american history. And it's been done in most countries around the world. If the political and business elites wanted to end illegal immigration today, we'd end it easily. It's really not difficult to stop illegal immigration if we wanted to.