One poster upthread suggested that agriproducers be fined $10,000/day/illegal employee … concur, but add to that a very hefty fine for every unreported injury, and additionally for every other violation that will no doubt be found by a honest investigation.
No deferments, mandate it and slam the owners, operators and management.

“But do homeland security officials really have nothing better to do than raid businesses that hire willing workers – especially in states like Iowa, where the jobless rate is 3.5%?”

Well, I can think of a few people here in Michigan who might want to get a job anywhere right now. Whether it’s plucking chickens or making pork rinds.
Here we have people who can’t do what most Americans won’t do, because there ain’t nothin’ here to do!

But, I fear the cause is lost already. Our pols will push this and lie/cheat/steal to grant amnesty eventually. I was in a small town outside Dallas over the holiday. It is now 50% hispanic at least. At the Czech festival parade while there, I saw many many mexican flags (more than Texas flag) flying solo or along side the American flag. This is in stark contrast to the parades of even 10 years ago, where that was unheard of. In fact, I never saw the Czech flag along side or equivalent to the American or Texas flags. The few Czech flags seen were the small 5×5 inch ones. Why would a mexican flag even be in a Czech festival at all? Basically, they are taking over this country and we are letting htem.

P.S. I notice the Journal editorial board has retooled their style-book a bit. They used to call border-security advocates like me and Michelle “nativists”. Now it looks like they’ve settled on “restrictionists”.

What do you call people who support illegal activity? Crooks?

Do you feel safer?

Smart alecks. Every person in this country illegally is blatantly disrespecting us, our laws, and our sovereignity. I’m amazed that so many people in our own country are coming to the defense of these lawbreakers. Our safety is just one of the many consequences of encouraging this behavior.

Are there any ambitious entrepreneurs out there that would dare try to market their goods as “grown/manufactured/processed/picked only by legal American citizens?” I’d be willing to think they’d be doing gangbusters. But that would be deemed racist, discriminatory, and politically incorrect. Would it cost more to buy such goods? It might. It hasn’t stopped people from buying organic food, though, has it? Even with this non-recession recession we’re in. (By the way, recessions take place when there are two successive quarters of falling GDP – our GDP has not gone down.)

The bill does nothing to increase legal immigration, which is the only realistic way to decrease illegal immigration.

Uh huh. So how many more people should we legally allow into our country each year?

[I]llegal immigrant workers in the U.S. number about seven million, which is less than 5% of an overall workforce of 145 million people.

What’s our current unemployment rate? About five percent, right? There. Problem solved. And what’re the other 13 million illegal aliens doing? Going to school on the American taxpayer’s dime?

their latest attempt to turn employers into immigration police

Per the EEOC, “citizenship requirements generally do not violate federal law,” unless the adoption of those requirements are for discriminatory reasons. The EEOC also says that the “Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) requires employers to prove all employees hired after November 6, 1986, are legally authorized to work in the United States.” (For the sake of not adding too many links, I’ll just say you should look here for more information.) Would it be a problem to expect companies to go through a specific process in order to make sure that the temp help has proper credentials? That’s called a background check.

Hey, I can be a smart aleck, too.

So true.

Take Heath Shuler, a “Blue Dog” Democrat, who was elected in rock solid Republican western North Carolina in 2006.

Democrat Shuler has actually introduced immigration enforcement legislation in the House, although he knows it will never pass.

Re: WSJ “Immigration Theater”

I actually agree with the WSJ headline, but not their rationale.

Anything that Open Borders guys like Chertoff and Bush do to stop illegal immigration is ALWAYS pure political theater.

These things are just public relations bones they throw to us, the snarling Conservative masses.

It doesn’t matter.

In January 2009, McCain-Obama-Clinton and the massive Democratic majority in Congress will invite all of them back and give them voting rights, too.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents first told me about their raid on the Agriprocessors plant, early last week, I asked them whether they’d ever raid the country’s largest Halal slaughterhouse or meat-packing plant.

“Hell, no!” replied one. “These raids have to be approved by the White House, and they’d never go for that.”

So, why exactly did the White House go for the extremely wasteful “raid” of the world’s largest kosher meat processing plant in Iowa? And why was $10 million spent to capture 349 illegal aliens?

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/05/the_boondoggle.html