Comment Re:Probably not a coincidence (Score 1) 214
"Fixing" this problem means creating a sure-fire way to prevent illegal immigrants from working in the country, so nothing is done about it. One party doesn't want to fix it because they want to make these people citizens so they'll vote for that party. An influential fraction of the other party doesn't want to fix it because they want these people to remain as a source of cheap labor.
Semi-OT, but I just want to throw out my favorite low-cost, low-effort fix for getting nearly all illegal immigrants out of the country.There are two steps:
1. Make it a criminal offense to hire a worker not vetted as legally able to work by the E-Verify system, and beef up the E-Verify system so it validates with roughly the same level of assurance as the US Passport issuance system. By "criminal offense" I mean "non-trivial mandatory jail time for the most senior company officer who approved/ordered the hire".
Please point to the Article:Clause in the Constitution that delegates the Federal Government (or State Government) the power to control who can work for who in this country. I won't hold my breath. This infuriates me no end. The government has NO BUSINESS telling me who I can and cannot work for, and that is precisely what E-Verify is, whether it is used for that purpose TODAY or not. But if nits like you get their way, it won't be long before you get turned down for a job for any number of reasons: outstanding parking ticket? No job for you.
