“... no border-security plan is credible if it does not include severe employer sanctions for businesses that hire illegals”
I’m glad to see that others also thought the president’s speech on immigration reform was a whole lot of nothing.
Here’s what should be done:
• Impose stiff fines plus jail time for employers who hire illegals. The sentence need not be long. Six months would do. (It’s the fact, and not the length, of the term that it will get the attention of middle class bosses.) Go after ‘em hook and tong.
• Mexican nationals working in the United States send home billions in remittances. Tax those remittances at a confiscatory rate — say, 60% — when they’re sent by check or wire. But allow the nationals to take cash across the border tax-free. This will courage them to earn money, save it and then take it — and themselves— home.
• Launch a massive guest worker program, sufficent to meet the needs of the U.S. economy, but make it open only to those who are outside the U.S. at time of application.
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