Reclaiming the Issues: "It's an Illegal Employer Problem"

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00070.htm

Every time the media - or a Democrat - uses the phrase "Illegal Immigration" they are promoting one of Karl Rove's most potent Republican Party frames.

The reality is that we don't have an "Illegal Immigration" problem in America. We have an "Illegal Employer" problem.

Yet it's almost never mentioned in the mainstream media, because to point it out could slightly reduce the profits and CEO salaries of many of America's largest multi-state and multinational corporations - who both own the media and contribute heavily to conservative politicians. Republicans would prefer that the "criminals" covered in the press are working people, and that corporate and CEO criminals not get discussed.

As the Busby/Bilray contest showed, "illegal immigration" is a red-hot issue for American voters. The Democrat Busby was way ahead until she committed a faux pas before a group of Latinos, leading to (false) media reports (particularly on right-wing talk radio) that she was encouraging illegal immigrants to vote for her in the upcoming election. Her Republican opponent seized on this and hammered the district with ads for the last few days of the campaign (while voting machines curiously went home at night with some of the poll workers), and now a Republican lobbyist has taken the seat of a Republican congressman convicted of illegal deals with Republican lobbyists.

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1. a couple weeks ago I posted a simple answer to the "Illegal Employer"

problem...

Two points:

A) A $5,000 fine to the company the illegal was found working at. So if the night clean up crew at a Walmart has 10 illegals, then they are ticketed for $50,000. Catch and Release the illegal, and maybe you can catch him again. So the big companies like Walmart could not claim, how did I know, "Joe's Cheap Mexicans Co" used illegals.

B) The $5,000 would be split between the law enforcement agency that wrote the ticket and the US Govt. Just think of all Police forces out there that would LOVE to write a $2,500 ticket or in the case of the 10 illegals at Walmart a $25,000 ticket. And who better knows where the illegals are working than the local PD.

In the end no $$$ fences to build. At $5,000 per employee per day, how many companies would hire illegals.... ????