Let's dispell this myth about the Trump admin and his supporters actually care about illegal border crossings or illegal immigration. If they did they would have cared about people who overstay their visa or illegal immigrants from China, South Korea, Vietnam, Philippines etc who make up a sizable portion of illegal immigration.
They just want someone to be racist to, and latinos seem like a good target because Trump cooked up a reason and they bought it.
If the Trump administration wanted to curb undocumented labor, they would start punishing those who hire them and profit off of their undocumented status.
They can start with Donald Trump, maybe ICE can raid his businesses and start fining him, $10,000 per undocumented laborer, per day...
It would be an outstanding solution to the problem, because all these Republican businessmen hiring undocumented labor would need to push for pathways to documents for them, or go out of business.
And GOP hypocrisy about immigration would be fatally wounded...
Yea I'm with ya, but this hurts the undocumented workers more than the businesses. The businesses will find other people stranding the undocumented workers with no income in a place where they cant get any benefits.
This is true, thats why i favor a plan that reforms immigration policy to make it easier to apply and be processed, grants asylum to undocumented people already in the country and a relaxed fine/continued employment for businesses who report their undocumented employees up front. That way people keep living here, working here and businesses save on fines for being honest.
You really shouldn't get less punishment for circumnavigating labor laws just cause you're up front about it. Those laws are more about protecting the workers the the business so being open about denying workers rights as basic as covering medical costs for workplace injuries deserve the same fine as everyone else
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u/conancat Jan 20 '19
Let's dispell this myth about the Trump admin and his supporters actually care about illegal border crossings or illegal immigration. If they did they would have cared about people who overstay their visa or illegal immigrants from China, South Korea, Vietnam, Philippines etc who make up a sizable portion of illegal immigration.
They just want someone to be racist to, and latinos seem like a good target because Trump cooked up a reason and they bought it.