• Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
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    9 months ago

    It’s easy. You put troops on the border or criminal charges for people who hire them

    My concern is Congress has done nothing to make it easier for people to immigrate legally. If we need the labor, make it easier. Illegal immigration should not be tolerated.

    To me that’s the issue. Congress.

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        9 months ago

        We can read a license plate from space. We can easily track and remove immigrants.

        If we punished those who hired them harshly, you think they’d hire illegals? Imagine if the ceo for Tyson chicken went to prison. You think other CEO’s would take note?

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          Here is a prosecution summary page of the Iran-Contra scandal: https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/prosecutions.php

          Despite all the clearly illegal activity, only one guy got 16 months prison for lying on his tax returns. Everybody else got probation or pardoned.

          So I don’t think a well connected poultry CEO would ever actually do time for such a thing. It’s a nice thought tho.

          I agree there needs to be better pathways to legal immigration. The US population growth is slowing and is projected to decline. Need more Americans.

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            9 months ago

            Well currently there is nothing to arrest them under. We’d need congress to create a law to do it. Since they won’t fix the border. I can’t see them creating a law to punish their donors .

            It’s a nice idea to hold people accountable.