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If a person who is underage gets caught drinking alcohol they get fined, but so does the store or bar where the person purchased the alcohol. It doesn't matter if the underage person had a fake ID or entered the bar illegally. It is the bars responsibility to make sure they serve only to people of legal age. Why can't we expect employers to have to have the same responsibility when they hire workers?
If employers were fined a large amount of money, such as $20,000 or $50,000 per worker, if they are caught employing a worker who is in the country illegally, the employer will do everything in their power to make sure their employees are here legally. Employers will check the documents and then check them again and again. If they don't and are caught, pretty soon they will be out of business because of the stiff fines.
During the immigration raids that took place last December, Swift and Co. had 1,282 workers arrested on immigration charges. If Swift and Co. were fined $25,000 for every worker charged, they would quickly be changing their hiring practices. Since a system like this doesn't exist, Swift and Co. were back to their old hiring practices just a couple months after the raid.
The first step in solving the immigration issue is not building a massive fence or granting amnesty. The first step that needs to be taken is stricter fines for employers that hire illegal immigrants.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
How to the Solve the Immigration Issue
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I whole heartedly agree.
The law provides some very heavy fines for systematic violations of immigration employment. I don't want to prejudge Swift, nor imply that I have any source of info from USDA office 'cause I don't, but Swift had a lot of illegals and I don't think it was coincidence.
Were I in the Senate I would sponsor a four plank immigration bill.
1. Double employer investigation budget and number of agents.
2. Fund $1.5 billion to upgrade immigration bureaucracy so people are getting reasonably prompt and accurate immigration service from the government. One should never become illegal because the right governmental widget wasn't punched (and you people want to turn health care to the widgets who have messed up the State Dept.?).
3. $4.5 billion in border security. Its a big job but we've got to stop the flow on both ends.
4. Require future Congress to review the success of the program in 2011, after two congressional and one presidential election.
Its simple, its fair, its clear and it requires Congress to take some responsibility and account for its own actions in another public vote for years on.
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