Or how you won't go after illegal employers who hire undocumented workers.
That’s why we need an secure border, Currently we have a wide-open southern border with no border security.
Well first of all the wall is a waste of time and money and won't work.
Especially if we start cracking down on illegal employers the way we did until Reagan stopped enforcing the law.
And Bush 2 too
"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, and fines collected declined from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics.
"In 1999, the United States initiated fines against 417 companies. In 2004, it issued fine notices to three."
So why did GW Bush stop work site enforcement? Oh yea, back then it was cool to hire illegals. Well it's not anymore so lets start going after illegal employers again. Then watch the illegal workers pack up and go home.
You want to try something that doesn't work first? Why not try what we are suggesting first? Or ever? Why won't you go after illegal employers? Have you heard once Trump talk about going after illegal employers? Oh yea I forgot he's one of them.
Donald Trump companies ignoring E-Verify, hiring illegal immigrants
If we’re going to have a wide-open southern border and no border security like we currently have... Just let the illegal aliens live in the shadows and go on the way they are
You know in 2006 Republicans were crying for a wall or fence? When did you jump on the wall bandwagon? Because this op ed I'm sharing is from 2006.
Reclaiming the Issues: "It's an Illegal Employer Problem"
I don't remember any Republican on USMB from 2008-2012 saying one word about needing a wall. How come now it is a national emergency? Do you see my point? There were Republicans in 2006 that said we need a wall or fence, you weren't convinced then. Then I don't recall any Republicans telling Obama to build a fence in 2009 or 2010. Do you? So then why now is it a sudden national emergency? Especially when border crossings are way down.
This came from that Op Ed I posted: Proof that this simple reality is ignored in our media (much to the delight of Republicans) is everywhere you look. For example, check out a series of national polls on illegal immigration done over the past year at
www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm. A typical poll question is like this one from an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted in June, 2006:
"When it comes to the immigration bill, the Senate and the House of Representatives disagree with one another about what should be done on the issue of illegal immigration.
"Many in the House of Representatives favor strengthening security at the borders, including building a seven-hundred-mile fence along the border with Mexico to help keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States, and they favor deporting immigrants who are already in the United States illegally.
"Many in the Senate favor strengthening security at the borders, including building a three-hundred-and-seventy-mile fence along the border with Mexico to help keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States, and they favor a guest worker program to allow illegal immigrants who have jobs and who have been here for more than two years to remain in the United States.
"Which of these approaches would you prefer?"
The question: "Or would you prefer companies that employ undocumented workers be severely fined or put out of business?" wasn't even asked. The word "employer" appears nowhere in any of the questions in that poll. Nor is it in the CBS News immigration poll. Or in the Associated Press immigration poll. Or in the Fox News immigration poll.
Liberal media my ass.