Geezer wrote:I truly believe you do find that reasonable since your posts seem to show a very strong anti-capitalism viewpoint.
Mmmm, no, anti-corporate, anti-plutocrat, but not necessarily anti-capitalism. Large multi-national corporations and big banks have no interest in real capitalism and seek to destroy it at every turn. Smash every one of them to pieces and convince me that they'll never be back, and I might start agreeing with Guinness more often.
I have no problem with CEO's facing jail ,fines , etc if they were negligent in avoiding hiring illegals. If you included jail time for Zoe Baird and other judges Clinton tried to appoint along with numerous pols cought employing illegals (and not paying social security taxes for them) then your zero tolerance approch would be more fair.
As far as I know anyone hiring a domestic worker is effectively acting as the owner of their own business. They'd be included automatically.
I think a one or two page bill that includes the following is more reasonable.
1 Employers or company officials employing illegals face jail / fines for knowingly hiring illegals. Companies would be required to verify social security & citzenship data. Failure to do so would be a felony.
2 Companies guilty of flagrant offenses would be subject to very heavy fines, all court costs and be ineligible for any federal contracts and be ineligible for work involving direct or indirect funding.
3 States, such as California, that violate federal law by providing benefits to illegals would lose federal funding double the amount provided per illegal.
4 Illegals caught working in this country work be deported with any resources they have less the court and deportaion costs. If that exceeds everything they have they leave with zero.
5 Any states or localities, such as SF, declaring themselves amnesty zones lose all federal funding for that year. All officials responsible for such actions face a mandatory 5 year jail time.
6 States receive a set federal bounty plus cost reimbursement per illegal caught and deported to provide an incentive to evict illegals. Presently the feds give extra political representation and funding for states to allow illegals.
I should have included copious fines in addition to the jail time in my last post on this; I'd fine the company itself $1 million per illegal to start, then adjust upwards if the deterrent wasn't enough at $1 million per. I'd also change your number 2; depending on what "flagrant offenses" is, I'd be in favor of a corporate death penalty. Disband the board, fire the employees, seize the assets and auction them to the highest bidder.
None of these other points would matter if companies stopped hiring illegals to save on labor. If you want to stop them, make the cost of hiring illegals higher than the savings they gain by going that route. If the jobs go, so does the problem.