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$\"800px-US-border-notice\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Give workers standing to sue, similar to the way disabled individuals can collect cash from non-accessible businesses.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I\u2019m not sure how it would work, but if you want to take away the carrot of legalization, as a means of ensuring that the government implements a true enforcement and puts a genuine end to illegal immigration,* you need a stick.<\/p>\n

So:<\/p>\n

Give individual workers the right to sue employers who hire illegal workers in the future (either via false papers or under the table), on the basis that this takes away (a) job opportunity and (b) the opportunity for increased wages due to supply and demand.<\/p>\n

Further, to the extent that the federal government stands in the way, e.g., via regulations that make it impossible for employers to truly verify employment eligibility (because, it\u2019s claimed, it\u2019s discriminatory), enable individuals or groups to sue the government, with the obstructing individuals subject to termination as well as fines to be paid out of that department\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

Oh, and one more fix: \u00a0go to a zero-baseline immigration policy. \u00a0Set a fixed number of new entrants per year. \u00a0Use census and other data to derive a figure for the number of new entrants per year \u2014 both visa overstays and border-crossers \u2014 by country of origin. \u00a0Subtract these totals from the number of visas that otherwise would have been allotted to that country, to give other stakeholders in the immigration system some skin in the game when it comes to illegals.<\/p>\n

I know the preceding is rather pie-in-the-sky, but it\u2019s in response to those who say \u201cenforcement first\u201d is unfair to those who are planned to be legalized in the future, because you\u2019ve taken away their ability to earn an income. \u00a0Now, to be sure,\u00a0they never had a right to do so in the first place, but it is a legitimate issue.<\/p>\n

So there you go. \u00a0Could you make this work?<\/p>\n

And the asterisk is in the second paragraph above because Bush\u2019s amnesty plan, from 2006, had a different approach: \u00a0he decreed that illegal immigration would end because we\u2019d just have a guest worker program, allowing anyone who wished to come, the ability to do so legally, to fill all the minimum wage\/unskilled labor jobs we thought we\u2019d have. \u00a0(And that was well before we started the current debate about minimum wage levels, but I think the fantasy then was that Mexican men would come, leave their families behind, and live off their minimum wage salaries with a bit to spare for the family.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"