I’ve got a brilliant idea:
1 - penalize ANY employer who hires illegal aliens at the rate of $10K per illegal employee for a first offense, $40K per illegal employee thereafter. This (if actually enforced would solve 80%+ of the issue).
2 - Impose an exit tax of 50% on all funds wired, transferred, or otherwise sent to Mexico or other nation by anyone who cannot produce proper identification/documentation of legal residence.
3- accelerate the deportation process
4- provide for a bounty to whistleblowers who turn in employers for employing illegal aliens (say 10% of the fine imposed). You turn in a chicken plant and the raid produces documentation of 200 illegal alien employees - that is a $2,000,000 fine. 10% would be 200K - not a bad payoff for turning them in.
That contractor who only hires legal workers or Americans who has a hard time competing for jobs because other contractors are hiring illegals at half the pay... they have an incentive to turn them in as well.
5 - BUILD THE WALL!
Alas - nobody has the backbone to do anything remotely like this.
And how could I forget? - no Medicaid or other public funding for anyone’s health care, education, etc without proof of citizenship or legal residence.
“Impose an exit tax of 50% on all funds wired, transferred, or otherwise sent to Mexico or other nation by anyone who cannot produce proper identification/documentation of legal residence.”
Señor Illicito will give his dinero to Señor Permitido to send to Señora Querida.
Enforcing laws is tough.
Weaking minimum wage protection law is easy - two votes and one signature.