Of course enforcement is key -Chizzang wrote:Ask the right questions:
why aren't we going after the companies that hire illegals ..?
Why aren't we enforcing the employment laws on the books
Who decides what laws to enforce and what laws to ignore ..?
Why is it so easy to "get work" illegally in this country..?
Are we even asking the right questions..?
And that is usually where laws go to die. Law enforcement is an exercise in prioritization. On average, there are between 2 and 4 police officers per 1000 people. Obviously for that number to be sufficient, it requires a majority of people to be normal, law abiding citizens, which we mostly are.
But to satisfy the public interest in the illusion of “safety” those 2-4 cops have to spend most of their time answering calls for service, and detectives have to pursue cases in order of severity and public interest. As a result, a LOT of lawbreaking goes un policed. I’m fine with that... we are over criminalized as it is.
At the Federal level, it is even worse. There aren’t enough prosecutors and judges, and going after the CEO of a corporation is a dicey affair when it is HR that does the hiring. Add to this the fact that at least in the past, the crime of hiring illegals isn’t the sexiest crime out there.... Federal solicitors have to agree to take the cases, and they rarely do. Hell, passport fraud cases go un-prosecuted every day. A lot of work goes into investigating these crimes just to see the applicable prosecutor not pursue them with indictments. And it isn’t just because they are low yield cases... there just isn’t enough time to go after everything.
A little political will might help things, but at the end of the day, going after fat cats is going to have maybe a 5% success rate. And it is the actual hiring authority (usually the HR manager or mid level managers) that do that. Frog-walking Joe the plant manager would still have a chilling effect on hiring illegals, but again, you have to go after the murderers and sex traffickers and Russian troll farm owners first.
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