Reply #23: Wanted to throw this in...

[Mythsaje]

First, I don't blame the illegals for wanting to come into this country and trying to make a better life for themselves. Perfectly reasonable. I don't even blame them for doing it illegally, per se. My primary concern is that corporations use this influx of cheap labor against American workers, and to keep wages low across the board.

It's not the immigrants' fault, it's the fault of our leaders for not taking a stand against this sort of behavior on the part of our corporations.

That said, I don't believe what the agencies this law targets are doing is encouragement. It's simply good social policy. Decent human behavior. These people are here, they need help, and they should get it.

You want to target those who encourage them to sneak across our borders to find work, do what Thom Hartmann suggests and make the CEOs and other officers of the corporations that hire them suffer legal consequences such as jail time. If they risked six months to a year in jail for allowing the hiring of undocumented workers, as Thom says, we'd see people lining up on THIS side of the border trying to go home.