• Doug Holland@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    The Trump administration is planning to ramp up civil and criminal prosecutions of companies that employ workers without legal status, White House border czar Tom Homan said in an interview Wednesday.

    Pure bullshit. At most, expect a few photo ops at small businesses owned by Democrats, but big picture the employer class is 95% Republican and will never face meaningful civil and criminal prosecutions for employing undocumented immigrants.

    Of course, goes without saying that if they were, all of America’s undocumented immigrants would be gone in days, triggering massive inflation and an economic crash of 1929 proportions.

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    19 days ago

    I don’t agree with the Republican immigration bullshit but I’ve argued for over 30 years that if any of these blowhards were actually serious about immigration enforcement that they’d go after the employers. The I.R.S. has known for years which employers are hinky, they can see it with SSN re-use during employment verification.

    SSN 506-03-2379 cannot possibly be working full time as a construction worker in Florida, a meat packer in Iowa, picking crops in California, ditch digging in Texas, and running Door Dash in 57 other cities…ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

    Find the employers involved in this and fine the ever loving shit out of them. They can employee people and pay them real wages instead of building their business on the back of underpaid immigrants.