There is only ONE thing that is going to help us in this situation, and that is to make the penalties MORE expensive to hire illegals (if caught) than it would be profitable to the business. Then, there will still be those who don't get caught, or at least for a while.
I agree, but you have to prove the employer hired them knowingly. In most cases the large companies that were done under by Bush it was the HR department that hired those of their ethnicity illegally, and it was those in the HR department charged, to which the company itself wasn't liable.
That shouldn't matter. The company is responsible for the actions of it's employees on the job.
No most companies, i.e. corporations, are not responsible for the actions of its employees on the job. I'm beginning to think you have no experience in business let alone economics or immigration matters.
So . . . you think if the personnel department hires illegals, then the company can just say, well it's not OUR fault???
Do I think that? NO, it's the laws on the books. A small owner operator type company can hire a temp agency that sends out its persons to work, they could be illegals for all the owner knows, yet he is not responsible for hiring them since he hired an employment agency whom he pays, guess what, the owner is liable for the agencies employees. So now you have to go after the agency, and if the illegals presented documents that conformed to the I-9 requirements how are you going to hold the agency responsible for hiring illegals knowingly?