Re:Notes from November 28 Meetup of Bay Area Tech Solidarity
by mcculley on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:45AM
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I don't disagree with any of that. I'm saying that enforcing fines or imprisonment for criminal employers of illegal immigrants is the only way to fix it.
I live in Florida. Border control routinely rounds up undocumented citrus workers and deports them. Nobody ever punishes the farms that employ them. If they punished the farms, it would change things.
I never see anybody push against those employers. I think it's because those complaining are more aligned with the businesses.
Re:Notes from November 28 Meetup of Bay Area Tech Solidarity
by mc32 on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:48AM
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Oh certainly --that is where enforcement should focus on. Just like they do in China and Japan. Fine the employers and make them pay the ticket back to the worker's home country --forged papers, no excuse, get better vetting.
More or less the same rules every other nation has to control who comes in (and out) including Mexico, South Africa, etc. We are not outliers in this respect.
It's a long process --sometimes involving multi-year even decade waits for people looking to legally migrate. It's not fair to them or to me (when I want to go overseas) to have people jump the line.