Quote:I like how you use the lowest common denominator to argue this. Guess what -- most likely, nobody's going to report you for hiring some hispanic guy to cut your lawn (even though by doing so, you're kind of contributing to the problem you say exists in the first place!)  


But when you go out, and get some of those guys in a truck and have them help build your porch?  Yeah, I think you know you're hiring illegals there. Now if you hire a contractor, and he brings in illegal immigrants, that's a different story altogether.  


And why wouldn't you do a background check when hiring a maid?  Oops.  Turns out you just hired a thief to clean your house, and while you weren't looking they stole your wife's jewelry.  

 

I'll try and clear up some confusion, I don't hire anyone to do any of that. I'm saying that the people who do hire lawn service guys and contractors are not going to ever check immigration status. Also maids most of them are hired on refereed status, I know my wife cleaned houses for about a year as extra income, not once did anyone do a background check. A good majority of the other girls doing it where what you'd suspect as illegals, no one does background checks they check with other people they've cleaned for and find out if they're honest and do a good job.

 

The point I'm trying to illustrate is tracking down people that have in some way employed illegals is trying to fix the problem on the back end. Even if we're 75% efficient at it, it doesn't fix the problem. We should fix the problem on the front end, the why they come here rather then once they get here. 

 

I reject the idea immigrants come here just to leach off the welfare system, however it happens, so make it harder for fraud to take place in the welfare network. Tighten down reign on welfare and the minority that come here for a "free ride" will stop coming.

 

The majority of them come to work however you can't make everyone that wants to work here a citizen. The solution is to have a guest worker program and to change the tax code so that they regardless of how they generate income are paying into the system.

---