We have to ramp up enforcement ten fold.
Target employers.
Cut off benefits.
Make it so difficult to be an illegal alien that they go home.
If you see people speaking Spanish, ask if they have a green card, if they say no, tell them ICE is looking for them.
From my immigration reform plan:
TITLE II - USCIS EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION SYSTEM
[Article IV, Section 4 of our Constitution requires the United States to protect each state against invasion.]
[These sections would go into the Internal Revenue Code.]
SEC. ???? Employer Employee Verification.
(a) Each employer not exempt hiring a person more than six months after enactment must enter into the USCIS Employment Verification System the name of the person, the person’s supplied tax identification number and all other requested information on the person and retain the code returned in the employer’s records for the employee before paying the employee or lose the ability to deduct 50% of the best paid deductible employee’s FICA taxable compensation for each tax year in which the information wasn’t entered.
(b) Employers with less than 10,000/500/20 employees during the previous quarter shall be exempt until 12/18/24 months respectively after enactment.
(c) Any natural person hiring another person or people for less than 40 total hours of work on their residential property or farm of less than 12 acres who has not hired others for over 60 days shall be exempt.
SEC. ???? Employer Employee Reverification/Verification.
(a) After any quarter in which the employer’s FICA tax due has increased by more than 10% or is bigger than that of any quarter of the previous year, an employer not exempt must enter into the USCIS employment verification system the tax identification numbers of (and all other requested information) on all employees still employed the end of the following quarter within 15 days of the quarter or lose the ability to deduct 30% of the best paid deductible employee’s FICA taxable compensation for the tax year.
(b) Employers with less than 10,000/500/20 unique employees during the increased quarter shall be exempt until 24/30/36 months respectively after enactment.
(c) Employers whose quarterly FICA tax due was less than $500 shall be exempt.
SEC. ???? Deductibility of Contractor Work.
(a) No payment to a contractor under a contract entered into after 2021 related to landscaping, grounds maintenance, cleaning or building construction/repair work shall be deductible unless it was contracted under a contract effectively and clearly containing the USCIS 2022 Contractor Employee Verification System Contract Language.
SEC. ???? Corporations Doing Certain Types of Work.
(a) Effective with the 2022 tax year, no corporation contracting to do landscaping, grounds maintenance, cleaning or building construction/repair work may:
(1) have S status for a tax year, or
(2) deduct Medicare taxable compensation for any employee that is in excess of $50,000 for a tax year
unless each customer contract entered into during the tax year effectively and clearly contains the USCIS 2022 Contractor Employee Verification System Contract Language.
[This section can go either in 26 USC or 8 USC.]
SEC. ???? USCIS 2022 Contractor Employee Verification System Contract Language.
(a) The USCIS 2022 Contractor Employee Verification System Contract Language shall be:
The Contractor agrees to
(1) utilize on customer premises only a person/persons authorized by the USCIS employment verification system within the last 24 months, and
(2) provide proof of such verification to any governmental person or person who signed this contract upon request per law, and
(3) rebate 8% of payments received & give 5% off future payments due, up to $4,000, to the customer if a furnished person wasn’t so verified.
[This section should go in 8 USC.]
SEC. ???? Customer-Level Proof of Contractor Employee Verification.
[Farm labor contractors and farm labor contractor employees who perform farm labor contractor activities must carry proof of registration and show it to workers, agricultural employers, agricultural associations, and any other person with whom they deal as contractors.]
(a) Effective January 1, 2021, each person on the premises of a customer doing landscaping, grounds maintenance, cleaning or building construction/repair work must
(1) carry a verification card with
(A) a facial picture of themselves of passport quality, unless their face is always covered for religious reasons while in public,
(B) their chosen name, their first name as verified and their latest USCIS verification code in at least 12-point type, and
(2) show the card of (1) to fellow workers, their direct (and indirect) employer(s) and any other person with whom they deal with upon request.
(b) Effective January 1, 2021, each contractor with any contract to do landscaping, grounds maintenance, cleaning or building construction/repair work must furnish a verification card to an employee before sending the employee to any customer site and upon employee request thereafter, without charge.
(c) Customer-level proof of USCIS Employee Verification for a person shall consist of:
(1) tendering/giving a card meeting the requirements of subsection (a) to the customer, and
(2) allowing the customer to make a copy on the spot of the card.
SEC. ???? Contractor Employee Verification State Law Provisions.
(a) Any state may require businesses licensed under state law to
(1) (attempt to) verify the US employability of new/existing employees using the USCIS Employment Verification System,
(2) document each attempt,
(3) include Employee Verification System Contract Language in their customer contracts.
(b) Any state may require (under penalty of law) that state-specified businesses licensed under state law use a state-approved bill-paying and payroll service provider.
(c) Any bill-paying/payroll service provider may (partially) confiscate the pay intended for a person not entitled to work in the United States, if and as allowed by state law.
(d) Any bill-paying/payroll service provider may (partially) confiscate for the state the pay intended for a person not entitled to work in the United States, if and as allowed by state law.
SEC. ???? Customer-Assisted Contractor Employee Verification.
(a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall endeavor to allow people to enter a verification code on a USCIS website to retrieve
(1) one or more pictures of the verified person (insomuch as religious belief allows) from photos in USCIS official records, and
(2) the verified person’s first name(s) known to USCIS, and
(3) the name(s) of the (last few) employer(s) of the verified person and their address zip codes.
[Harry Peludo won’t want to wear a burka in the summer heat.]
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall endeavor to allow people to subsequently enter
(1) the apparent employer’s name,
(2) the date the apparent employee was seen,
(3) the local time the apparent employee was seen,
(4) a 5 or 9-digit zip code,
(5) a GPS position the person of interest was seen at,
(6) a license plate “number”,
(7) a two-letter postal code for the state of a license place,
(8) a phone number, and
(9) a comment field of a length of at least 200 characters.
All of the data sharing that is coming together now at last will provide for exactly what you ask..
Who are the Employers hiring illegals who are using SSN’s that are not theirs and paying them directly versus under the table. This to me is the biggest change that came from the Census issue, asking a question is nothing compared to what the data shows including who, where and how exposing all the players in the game
Point of order, ask them if they are in the country legally.
Lots of people whose mother tongue is not English have valid visas or US citizenship.