...I guess businesses need to beef up the border patrol and build a higher fence. All this time I thought the Federal Government was responsible for controlling the border and setting immigration policy. Please tell me I am wrong.
Of course you're wrong.
However, in a situation where business silently and tacitly stimulates Illegal Immigration by hiring and exploiting low-wages Illegal Alien labor, thereby being responsible, at least in part, for an irresistible motivation and stimulus for outsiders to try crossing into the United States, it greatly increases the volume and makes border control all the more difficult.
Before you dig the hole deeper, perhaps you should read these links.
U.S. Code § 1324a - Unlawful employment of aliens
8 U.S. Code 1324a - Unlawful employment of aliens LII Legal Information Institute
How Federal Law Regulates ForeignWorkers
Foreign Workers Post September 11th - News Publications=
Are you really and truly going to try to pretend that businesses do not hire Illegal Aliens by the hundreds of thousands and by the millions, in order to take advantage of far lower labor rates?
Really?
And you serve-up a law-citation or two, in support of that, and some commentary about the state of affairs immediately subsequent to 9-11?
Implying, of course, that businesses routinely
comply with such laws, and that the post 9-11 state of affairs continued largely in the same vein, ever since the 9-11 timeframe, in an Illegal Immigration context?
Really?
You're a funny guy.
My plumber uses Illegals.
My roofer uses Illegals.
My general contractor uses illegals.
My driveway paving and resurfacing provider uses illegals.
My painter uses illegals.
My pool service (tough jobs only) uses illegals.
My neighbor's lawn care service uses illegals.
Five fast food joints within five minutes of my house use illegals.
Puh-leeeze!
And, the particular statute you cited, was passed by the present 113th Congress - only a year or two old.
How long have members of the latest Invasion Wave (
12,000,000 to 20,000,000 Illegal Aliens now present upon United States soil) been coming here?
Since the 1986 Reagan Shamnesty was fulfilled, admitting a prior 3,000,000.
This most recent Invasion Wave began more than a quarter-century ago,
long before that particular piece of legislation was passed.
A little like locking the barn door after the horses have already escaped.
Even
IF such statute
were being scrupulously observed by all sizes of companies and in all industries...
It didn't exist throughout the majority of the most recent Invasion Period, and, therefore, is nearly irrelevant, for our purposes here.
And, what existed
prior to that time was oftentimes and rightfully viewed as being about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
Businesses don't hire Illegal Aliens on a large scale - law or no law?
Yeah - right.
Your Honor - the Defense rests.