My point was that those types of companies aren’t looking to hire tons of illegal labor. Whether they hire an American or an immigrant, they are paying the same. If they have illegals here and there, it’s due to oversights. But a lot of resources are expended on inspecting their employee files because a) they are easy, and b) easy revenue.
The companies hiring illegals aren’t as convenient to get to in many cases, plus when they do a raid they actually catch illegals, whereas most of what they find at Wal-mart are simply citizens with an expired DL in their file. The idea is to make it look like you are doing something while doing as little as possible, because workplace raids piss off powerful Congressmen.
Then start doing more workplace raids again. That’s been dialed back in recent years in favor of inspecting employee files in places where they know darn well there aren’t any illegals. Stop spending money finding out if the flight attendants at Delta are illegal and go check out the factories and farms. You have to go where companies are paying sub market wages, because that’s where the illegal labor is.
Dude, I keep saying “put people in jail”. I don’t want to hear about all the reasons why Walmart isn’t a problem or they don’t hire a lot of people or anyway, those are just minor illegal immigrant problem. If illegal immigration is a problem, then jail the people who hire illegal immigrants. That’s the plan. I’m allabout raiding the workplaces. I’m just not going to waste my time raiding the workplaces of the people making .05 an hour. The sweatshop owners, the HR departments, the twentyfive-acre-garden-havers, the berry farmers, the restuarant chains, the dockyard owners … these people create the mess, they’re the ones I’m coming for.
Of course, like I said, this is going to have bad results for the rest of us, in terms of lost productivity, higher prices and general economic disruption. But if illegal immigration is a serious problem, and you lot keep telling me it is, then we have to take serious steps to solve it.
Or, you know, maybe you’re wrong and it’s just not that big a deal after all. Because if you’re not willing to make the sacrifice to stop it, this Liberal isn’t going to waste a lot of money on ineffective side shows like rounding up the just brown strays.
So: The border has not been secured against drug smuggling – but, WRT illegal immigrants, there has been some improvement. More importantly, after spending all that money on it, obviously the border is already as secure as it is ever going to get. Everything that reasonably can be done is being done. (No, a wall sretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific is not a reasonable thing.)
That article is from 2011 but I know of no more recent developments indicating anything different.
Deporting millions of immigrants certainly would be controversial. Also completely insane, inhuman, stupid, and devastatingly disruptive to the American economy.
Complete nonsense. This is a fact only in your head.
More nonsense. The only thing preventing the border from being secure is the will to do it. You really don’t think the combination of a fence, patrols and modern technology can secure a border against poor people walking in? Sure it can.
I seriously doubt Romney or any president could turn America into a worse place for Mexican immigrants than Mexico, without causing serious problems for America as a whole.
Romney did not have an idea of any kind. Anything that makes America so inhospitable to immigrants that they leave of their own volition will be even worse for us who were born here.
The intelligent and wise Ann Colter had a great line last night. To paraphrase:
“Saying that fences don’t work is ridiculous. It’s like saying buckets don’t work.”
HA! If she is wrong about fences, there are an awful lot of people, companies and governments wasting an awful lot of money buying all these things that don’t work.
People will find a way. It’s a very long border, you can’t very well fence every mile. Even if you could, millions of people cross it every year at the official ports of entry. A perfect fence would just create a market for phony passports. And if you managed to find a way to prevent that, then you’ve just raised the prices of all your California fruits and vegetables. Too many people businesses need the cheap transient labor that Mexicans will do that Americans will not.