If Trump wants to stop illegal immigration

[ShoulderRoll]

Why doesn't he mercilessly pursue harsh penalties for anyone who hires illegals?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Just cut them off of taxpayer money...

If they can come here, gain employment, work, pay their own bills, good citizen, then great, I really don't give a **** if you illegal or not..

But in any way shape or form that we have to subsidize them on taxpayers dollars, then ****'em..



People for the most part don't have a problem with illegals, it's the taxpayer money being spent on them is what they complain about, and the fact that a sizable percent of illegals are hardened criminals... and also we have laws and ways of immigrating people legally being ignored

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

cause they dont want to stop it they just pacifying the public.

not hard to understand

[The Hammer]

Why doesn't he mercilessly pursue harsh penalties for anyone who hires illegals?

You want him to blame it on whitey, right?

[DARKSEID]

Cheap labor is the backbone of many small businesses.

[ShoulderRoll]

You want him to blame it on whitey, right?

I want him to blame the greedy rich who love cheap labor.
The same ones who offshore our jobs or hire illegals to keep wages low.

That's the source of our economic problems.

But the wealthy seem to be off limits from criticism, that's why they always blame the poor instead.

Nice try on making this a race thing, though. I know how hung up on that you are.

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1) It's counterproductive for the government to deliberately enable a problem by neglecting one of its most basic functions and reasons for existence (national borders) then crack down on private businesses for all effectively being forced to stoop to the same level to compete against each other due to a federally engineered condition. It's a nice idea but in reality, logistically insurmountable. Plus indefinitely enforcing such laws while refusing to address the root of the problem would surpass the construction of a wall in financial cost fairly quickly. Similar to how executing prisoners is more expensive than housing them for life (multimillion-dollar legal fees per each court appeal).

2) Border security isn't purely an issue of job security but also security (and consistency) pertaining to trafficking, gangs, terrorism, fugitives, etc. We screen plane and boat passengers arriving in the country but struggle to maintain this inexplicable situation where thousands of miles of underpatrolled desert are so vulnerable that illegals have been documented sneaking in and out as part of their daily commute.

Now after the government has adequately fulfilled one of its most basic functions and most basic reasons for existing, they will have a far easier time busting the stragglers in business who still insist on deliberately employing illegal aliens.

In the end we can devote more of our economic/environmental carrying capacity and immigration resources to eligible global applicants rather than continuing this current pseudo-system which grants priority via the geographic proximity of the foreign country. As a result immigrants in general will experience less of a negative stigma.

[BrometheusBob.]

Why doesn't he mercilessly pursue harsh penalties for anyone who hires illegals?

That sounds like a much more difficult way to approach this imo.

[JJRod]

Why doesn't he mercilessly pursue harsh penalties for anyone who hires illegals?

They don't want to stop illegal immigration it's all a ruse.
If they wanted to they could establish strict laws on anyone hiring, housing, or helping illegals and withing 18 months all illegals would return to their respective countries on their own, without ever building a wall.

[Theodore]

Illegal immigration is a win-win for both the US and Mexico. US gets the cheap slave labor for many of its industries like construction, agriculture, landscaping, etc. Mexico gets rid of its poor along with a few convicts with the added benefit that they send back billions in remittances. And since the US has a lot of drug users and Mexico has quite a few murderous drug cartels that supplies the stuff, both sides get what they want.