Readers React: Employers must be part of the illegal immigration issue – The San Diego Union-Tribune

Category: Illegal Immigration

Re Biden plans big changes in immigration system some wont be easy (Nov. 18): Just read Michael Smolens column about immigration.

One thing that is seldom mentioned in the debate is sanctioning employers. When I was a young contractor looking for day laborers, I heard that the Border Patrol was confiscating peoples trucks if they were transporting illegal workers. So I started asking for papers from the workers.

If Homeland Security started fining or arresting employers for employing illegal workers, both the job market and the reason to immigrate would dry up.

I know well-connected employers would cry bloody murder. And society would have to face the paradox of plentiful cheap labor versus illegal immigration. Perhaps it would allow a real conversation to take place.

Neil MeyerEscondido

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November 27th, 2020
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