It's funny but in the 1980's-2008 you guys loved illegal workers. You used them to break the unions. This is another example of how you used to be the ones who freed the slaves but today, you would be the slave owning Democrats. The fact you don't see it makes you seem stupid.
"Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which subsequently was merged into the Homeland Security Department. The number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003
"In 1999, the United States initiated fines against 417 companies. In 2004, it issued fine notices to three."
That's Bush's time in office dummy.
There are still lots of companies in red states and Republican run companies in blue states who knowingly hire illegals. Trump was one of them in his first term.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an undocumented immigrant working at
Yarrabee Farms in Iowa, was convicted of first-degree murder for the 2018 abduction and fatal stabbing of 20-year-old student Mollie Tibbetts while she was jogging. Rivera confessed to dumping her body in a cornfield. Yarrabee,
owned by the brother of a prominent Iowa Republican
As of July 2025, Donald Trump has proposed a, "temporary pass" system allowing undocumented workers in agriculture, hotels, and restaurants to stay, provided employers vouch for them
You have been played. Trump used this issue because Steve Bannon and Steve Miller told him it would work. And boy did it.