What else can you do? Forced Deportation doesn't work.

Amnesty programs aren't outright forgiveness they usually involve fines, backtaxes, and citizenship requirements. In some cases they involve reporting information about the company that hired you illegally. If the IRS can give a 25+% deduction for self-reporting on errors in backtaxes, I think there is little reason that states can't have a program that enables illegal immigrants to become legal.

I think if you want to punish the illegal immigrants with forced deportation you need to make it unwise to hire them, if they can't get jobs they probably aren't staying in the US. Raise the fines on the companies by 400% if you want to take a punitive route. Jail executives who aid and abet illegal hiring. In that environment I could see a more punitive program for dealing with illegal immigrants. In the case of unreported employment go after people for tax evasion, I hear that worked well on Capone. Of course the problem is most of these executives have made CAMPAIGN DONATIONS.

But in the current situation they're practically aided across the border by American companies who will forge documents for them so they can pay them minimum wage (or in many cases less).

I highly doubt this is a problem that gets solved from the bottom up, if you remove the incentives for being here, or secure the border properly you remove most if not all of the problem.


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Agreed. This should be a priority. If you keep illegals out at the border you don't have so many problems about identifying them within the borders.


Why amnesty? This makes no sense to me. Basically, you are rewarding people who have broken the law.

I agree with you, though. Making the cost of hiring illegals higher than the cost of hiring legal labor would reduce the problems significantly. The problem there is that there have been numerous politicos who have been found to have hired illegals, either knowingly or not. Certainly, anyone who forges documents, for any reason, should be sent to prison, as well as being fined heavily. Simply make the risks so high that it becomes untenable.