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Originally Posted by meade95
Ok. You believe the answer is to add costs to businesses (who sole purepose/exsistence if you will is to employ people and make a profit for entirely reasons outside of immigration responsibilites). This is one of the FEW actual jobs given to our Gov't......
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Of course, the more full answer is to tighten border security, ramp up penalties and enforcement on the businesses that knowingly hire illeagals, stop social services cold to illeagals and speed up deportation of illeagals that comit crimes (we shouldn't be paying to house them). Then after a period of time, offer amnesty and a road to citizenship for those that remain who by definition will largely be non-criminals supporting themselves to some degree.
"Papers please" strikes me as taking a largely symbolic wave at a symptom. It also will allow those who wish to act out of racist feelings a legal platform to do so.
I am a conservative and a CPA. Even here in the Northeast, I have seen up close business owners hiring illeagals with full knowledge of what they are doing. It pisses me off and I am not moved by the argument that it turns business owners into a defacto unpaid police force. That is mythology. If a business owner requests and and receives the documents that they are required to by law they have few problems even if they were given false documents. It isn't time consuming or costly, it is part of every hiring process that I've ever seen conducted by people that want to follow the rules.
Many however, choose not to ask for the docs because they know what the answers will be and further know that there is little to no enforcement going on at that end of the situation - that's a problem and it's pretty damned stupid to defend business owners that screw us all by knowingly doing this.
Aside from all that, the thought of the WBC championing a just cause makes me chuckle.