The lawyers would have it shut down within hours.
Not if they were really interested in solving the problem which they are not.
The "amnesty" bill in congress would have fixed that, but now it won't.
Giving amnesty to 40 million criminal invaders is NOT the answer either.
I lived in Corpus Christi and Harlingen, TX for three years each. I had no trouble at all telling the illegal alien criminals from the Americans of Mexican descent and neither did my employer. If they are adults and speak no English then it is evident that further questioning is required. If someone could not be interviewed in English and fill out an employment application in English they simply were not hired. If they tried to pull the discrimination crap we would simply explain that they could not converse with the other employees or customers and were then thrown out on their ear.
{The lawyers would have it shut down within hours.}
[Not if they were really interested in solving the problem which they are not. ]
Who? The courts or the BATF?
The BATF will do what the courts tell them they can do. It's not the courts job to solve illegal immigration, it's the courts job to follow the Constitution and the law. Existing case law means that an employer can say he's examined the relevant documents for employment and that's his get-out-of-jail-free card. Demonstrating in court that the employer knew about the employees illegal status is almost always impossible, which is why stories like this are so rare.
Giving amnesty to 40 million criminal invaders is NOT the answer either.
It's probably only 12 million, and the legal "criminality" is about as serious as a traffic ticket. I'm sure you don't like that, but that's the facts.
I had no trouble at all telling the illegal alien criminals from the Americans of Mexican descent and neither did my employer.
Fine. So prove that in the courtroom.
If someone could not be interviewed in English and fill out an employment application in English they simply were not hired.
Good. I wish all employers did that. I think conversing in English is more important than legal status actually. But you need to grasp that current law cannot force an employer to do that. The law requires changing, and conservatives have just prevented that from happening.