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In reply to the discussion: You want to see illegal immigration dry up? [View all]IronLionZion
(51,659 posts)21. It's already illegal and they do fine the employers and ban them from contracts
https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/penalties
EMPLOYERS WHO VIOLATE THE LAW MAY BE SUBJECT TO:
Civil fines and/or Criminal penalties (when there is a pattern or practice of violations). For more information on the current amounts please refer to the Civil Monetary Penalties Inflation Adjustment for 2017.
Debarment from government contracts
A court order requiring the payment of back pay to the individual discriminated against
A court order requiring the employer to hire the individual discriminated against
CIVIL VIOLATIONS
Knowingly hired, or to have knowingly recruited or referred for a fee, an unauthorized alien for employment in the United States or to have knowingly continued to employ an unauthorized alien in the United States
Failing to comply with Form I-9 employment verification requirements
Committing or participating in document fraud for satisfying a requirement or benefit of the employment verification process or the INA
Committing document abuse
Unlawful discrimination against an employment-authorized individual in hiring, firing, or recruitment or referral for a fee
Failing to notify DHS of a Final Nonconfirmation (FNC) of an employees employment eligibility
Requiring an individual to post a bond or security or to pay an amount or otherwise to provide financial guarantee or indemnity against any potential liability arising under the employment verification requirements
CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS
Engaging in a pattern or practice of hiring, recruiting or referring for a fee unauthorized aliens
EMPLOYERS WHO VIOLATE THE LAW MAY BE SUBJECT TO:
Civil fines and/or Criminal penalties (when there is a pattern or practice of violations). For more information on the current amounts please refer to the Civil Monetary Penalties Inflation Adjustment for 2017.
Debarment from government contracts
A court order requiring the payment of back pay to the individual discriminated against
A court order requiring the employer to hire the individual discriminated against
CIVIL VIOLATIONS
Knowingly hired, or to have knowingly recruited or referred for a fee, an unauthorized alien for employment in the United States or to have knowingly continued to employ an unauthorized alien in the United States
Failing to comply with Form I-9 employment verification requirements
Committing or participating in document fraud for satisfying a requirement or benefit of the employment verification process or the INA
Committing document abuse
Unlawful discrimination against an employment-authorized individual in hiring, firing, or recruitment or referral for a fee
Failing to notify DHS of a Final Nonconfirmation (FNC) of an employees employment eligibility
Requiring an individual to post a bond or security or to pay an amount or otherwise to provide financial guarantee or indemnity against any potential liability arising under the employment verification requirements
CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS
Engaging in a pattern or practice of hiring, recruiting or referring for a fee unauthorized aliens
It's About Time Employer Hit by $96 Million Penalty for Hiring Illegal Aliens
https://cis.org/North/Its-About-Time-Employer-Hit-96-Million-Penalty-Hiring-Illegal-Aliens
I hear it all the time from racist idiots who refuse to believe I'm a US citizen when I apply for jobs.
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I've said this for a long time. Once, I said this to a Trump supporter, and he was
phylny
Jan 2019
#1
"You'd rather jail an American citizen than an illegal?" I've heard that too...
paleotn
Jan 2019
#35
I think we need to do what Republicans did in drug busts, seize the property of the criminals
rustydog
Jan 2019
#13
Agreed. If there were no jobs, there would be no illegal immigrants, for the most part
Buckeyeblue
Jan 2019
#14
Trump is firing undoc workers at Mar-a-Lago rather than the managers who hired them.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2019
#16
They have to realize and accept that we actually need these people. This refugee woman said she
UniteFightBack
Jan 2019
#20
It's already illegal and they do fine the employers and ban them from contracts
IronLionZion
Jan 2019
#21
Employers need to be held accountable, but we need a new immigration policy.
Lonestarblue
Jan 2019
#24
For sure... I don't think I've seen a non-Hispanic roofer in Central Florida in the last 10 years...
PeeJ52
Jan 2019
#27
Investing and creating economic opportunities in Central America will also help do this.
LonePirate
Jan 2019
#29
Give them an extra five years if they were hired by their contactors OR subcontractors
rocktivity
Jan 2019
#31
Don't know how it works other places but here is what a farmer I know does...
GulfCoast66
Jan 2019
#42
People are making a lot of money off these workers and voting for Trump at same time.
delisen
Jan 2019
#44
We all keep saying this, yet Congress does little. Regardless of which party is in control.
oldsoftie
Jan 2019
#72