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According to a recent Rasmussen poll, most Americans still support punishing employers who knowingly hire illegal-alien workers. They also support mandatory implementation of the E-Verify system.
Hiring illegal-alien workers has been prohibited nationally for years, but William Gheen with Americans for Legal Immigration PAC says this is another prime example of immigration laws that simply aren’t being enforced.
“Employing illegal immigrants is illegal,” Gheen said, “but for some reason or another, a huge percentage of the 20–30 million illegals in America have jobs!” Some of those illegal aliens work in the agriculture industry, while even more find employment in hospitality and construction.
Gheen went on to say that solving this problem is relatively simple. “Go after the big employers first,” he suggested. “Tell them, ‘We’re coming after you, and if you keep this up you’re going to jail.’ And you’ll watch these big companies shed their illegal workers in a heartbeat.”
He says one of the biggest reasons we haven’t seen that happen is because too many large employers have gotten involved politically—on both sides of the aisle—to stop strict enforcement of immigration and labor laws.
The end result is that many of these illegal-alien workers wind up as essentially “free-range wage slaves.” They often work under-the-table jobs in extremely long shifts for below-minimum wage and send huge portions of their earnings back to their home countries as remittances.
Gheen says that by enforcing these labor laws, you’d remove a huge incentive for illegal immigration.