With so much debate, protests, boycotts and left-wing violence coming over the State of Arizona's attempt to protect their border and citizens from illegal immigration and begin enforcing the laws on the books that the Federal government has refused to enforce brings us to a possible way of solving the illegal immigration problem by cracking down on the source of employment, those who employ illegal aliens.
As with prostitution so many focus on the prostitutes and not on those who are seeking to or buying their services, the focus on illegal immigration is on the illegal immigrants with a disregard for those who are employing them, the modern day slave owners.
So let's attack the issue of illegal immigration by going after the employers.
I propose the enactment of a law that stipulates a $100,000 fine for each illegal alien employed.
For example:
Joe the Landscaper has a big job to do and he swings by the local Big Box Lumber Store parking lot and picks up 6 illegal immigrants to work for him on the day. He is arrested and found guilty and is fined $600,000 for this.
Major Retailer has 200 illegal immigrants cleaning their stores overnight, reaping them a $20,000,000 fine.
The cost savings of paying someone $50 for a 12 hour work day would dry up quickly especially in Joe the Landscaper's case, his illegal immigrant hires might cost him his business or home.
If it is jobs that illegal immigrants seek then a way to deal with that is to make hiring each one so expensive that the jobs for them dries up. This can also help in our current unemployment crisis for legal immigrants and natural born citizens to take these jobs formerly done by illegal workers who were paid slave labor, off the books.
This should take care of several problems:
- Ending the labor market for illegal immigrants.
- Curtailing this form of modern day slave labor market.
- Opening up jobs for legal immigrants and American citizens.
- Punishing the purveyors of illegal jobs.
Just an idea that could work...
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