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"Just punish the employer with a very high fine and pay 50% of it as a reward to the whistleblower."

That's a brilliant, creative, easy and cheap idea. The fact that it hasn't been implemented makes me wonder if GWB is really interested in stemming the flow of illegals or protecting our borders.

There were employer sanctions in the 1986 illegal alien amnesty bill (Reagan's worse mistake) but the courts threw them out.

The reasoning went something like, we can't punish employers because the illegals may have lied to them and we can't let the employers verify a worker's status because it would invade the prospective employee's privacy - perfect circular judicial reasoning.

In 1986 there were about 2 million illegals in the US. Now there are between 8 and 14 million. Recognizing that we aren't going to be deporting the equivalent of possibly 5% of our total population - the equivalent of New York City plus LA County, some kind of accommodation has to be reached. But before we do that, not maybe after, we MUST take control of our borders and find a way to punish people who seek to profit from the destruction of our national sovereignty.

Rome fell because it wouldn't control it's frontiers. We could go the same way.

makes me wonder if GWB is really interested in stemming the flow of illegals or protecting our borders.

Just when he shows some kind of signs that he is --- fingerprinting and photographing foreigners about to enter the country, Vicente Fox comes along and starts twisting his arm.