Okay view this as an example:
Let say, ABC Widgets (a non-existant company made up for this example) has a work force made up of 60% undocumented workers (illegal aliens) and 40% documented who are either citizens or legal immigrants. The owners of ABC Widgets are arrested and thrown in prison for hiring undocumented workers. The business is forced to close and all the employees are put out of work. The documented workers hit the unemployement line while the undocumented workers are rounded up and thrown back across the border (but as usual they will be back in the US before morning hunting for a new job and will probably find one long before their legal counterparts). So, throwing the owners in prison and closing the business created higher unemployment amongst legal workers and thusly decreased the amount of taxes the government would get from those workers not to mention the owners now being in prison creates further burdon on the taxpayers to pay for their care while in prison.
Now if the laws were change correctly then things could be much different and could benifit us all. Instead of putting the owners caught employing illegals in prison, fine them (BIG FINES). Take the undocumented workers and give them two options, return to their native lands or register for work permits and tax numbers, pay taxes and fine them for working illegally (just not as stiffly as the employers). This way the legals stay employed as do the illegals and they all pay taxes. I'd also make to where the employer's and illegal's fines went directly towards the operational expenses of the immigration service, this would give them more incentive to hunt down the illegals and their employers (if this were the case immigration might just become the wealthiest arm of the government).
Re: "This Debate"
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