> lack of penalties for those that hire illegals provides an unfair advantage to those employers who, brazenly, break the law I've thought for a long time that

> lack of penalties for those that hire illegals provides an unfair advantage to those employers who, brazenly, break the law I've thought for a long time that the easiest way to curb illegal immigration would be to re-allocate resources targeting illegal immigrants to much more aggresively fine/jail/punish employers who employ illegal immigrants instead. As long as there is a supply of (illegal) jobs willing to pay more than in the country they are emigrating from, the immigrants will come. If there is nobody willing to hire them, they will not come. This will not happen though because it is in nobody's best interests. Not for business in the US, because they will make less money (or possibly even be unprofitable and have to shut down), and not for consumers, because their prices will increase.