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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (177022)10/25/2003 10:37:04 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1575410
 
It's not something that would be difficult to change, you simply impose a VERY severe penalty on anyone that hires an illegal, huge fines and maybe jail time for the owner of the business. End of problem, no incentive to cross the border if there is no money to be made.

This problem is so much more complex than this. Often, it cannot be easily proven that employers who hired illegals knew they were illegal; these people are illegally documented, as well. I have had clients who caught illegals only because they happen to notice multiple employees with the same SSNs; all papers were in order, they were just fake. Are you going to jail that guy?

The recent WalMart incident is a great example. WalMart has been totally villified in the press, but apparently has no culpability whatsoever (and SHOULD have none), since they hired a subcontractor. You can't have WalMart be responsible for the illegals hired by every contractor they deal with.

This problem can't be solved on the backs of business, big or small.
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