In a new effort to crack down on illegal immigrants, federal authorities are expected to announce tough rules this week that would require employers to fire workers who use false Social Security numbers.
Officials said the rules would be backed up by stepped-up raids on workplaces across the country that employ illegal immigrants.
After first proposing the rules last year, Department of Homeland Security officials said they held off finishing them to await the outcome of the debate in Congress over a sweeping immigration bill. That measure, which was supported by President Bush, died in the Senate in June.
Now Bush administration officials are signaling that they intend to clamp down on employers of illegal immigrants even without a new immigration law. The approach is expected to play well with conservatives who have long demanded a tougher stance on illegal immigration, but could also spur a renewed legislative effort to provide legal status for the estimated six million or so unauthorized immigrants in the work force.
The New York Times
Like I have been saying for some time now, they don’t need new laws to crack down on the illegal alien problem. All they need to do is enforce the laws they have on the books. Make it painful for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens and they’ll stop doing it. When the jobs dry up, the illegals go home, without the need for mass deportations. It’s really not that difficult of a concept.
The amnesty bill was never about solving illegal immigration. It was about the President, the Democrats, and a handful of Republicans defying their Constitutional duty to protect our nation’s borders all so they could pathetically court a new voting bloc.
