But they have no right to be in in this country nor to work here.
Agreed. What's your point? Once you get past all the running mascara and wails of 'but...but...the American Family!' appeals to emotion that have nothing to do with resolving the issue, we can get rational.
And productive.
I am all for implementing e-verify in every work place to that the greedy employers can't hire them.
Now you're approaching the issue productively. That's an excellent suggestion. But you need more teeth.
I say that you make e-verify mandatory for every hire. You can't employ someone unless you've used this system. It takes minutes at most so there are no excuses. Don't have a computer? They've got a 1-800 number. If you use everify, and the person passes, t
hen you have complete immunity if it turns out that they were in fact an illegal.
If however you *don't* use everify or hire someone even if they fail, there's a mandatory 1 year sentence in jail. This would include HR managers, CEOs, places where it will really hurt.
But that still doesn't take the blame off the illegal being here illegally and working here.
Who says anything about 'taking the blame of off illegals'? You've done a fine job of shredding arguments I'm not making. I'm saying that if you want to discourage illegals from living here, it makes more sense target their supply of work rather than illegals themselves.
They're here to work. If there's no work, most of them will leave.
Its monumentally stupid to focus our energy on the illegal immigrant himself. We don't have his real name. We don't know where he lives. He can change his name. He can move. He's difficult to find. There are 10s of millions of him. And if you deport him, he can just come back.
When you focus on the employers, you don't have any of these problems. We know exactly where the employers are.
Most advertise. They usually keep the same name and the same address. They're easy to find. There are far fewer employers of illegals than there are illegals. And he's not going anywhere.
You'd only need a couple hundred high profile cases of employers going to prison and they'd get the message really ******* quick. The pool of work for illegals would dry up sharply. And since work is the reason that the overwhelmingly majority of them are here, without work most will go home. The effectively deport themselves. And won't come back.
For the stragglers we can use traditional deportation. Its the best use of our resources, works the fastest, keeps working long after they leave, and costs a fraction of the bone stupid approach we're taking now.
Does it resolve EVERY illegal immigrant issue? Nope. But the overwhelming majority of them for a fraction of what we're paying now. Better results, short and long term effectiveness, and less expense. What's not to love?