Originally Posted by stereoman
Ah, market forces at work, eh?

No, wait, this is simply "making it a poor business decision to employ an undocumented worker". Someone said that on one of the immigration threads. I think it's a very good turn of phrase, and seems ultimately as reasonable as any anti-immigration strategy could be.

I see this approach as the commonest of common ground we have between the "amnesties" and the "Minutemen". We have to look at how it affects all the parties involved, including employers as well as the overall population of Hispanic Americans. I hear the Party On the Left extolling the need for a pathway to citizenship as an essential partner to punishing illegal employers. Now we have the latter on a large scale, in one of the most heavily impacted States in the Union.

What do y'all think is going to happen? Long term, I mean. Should we expect to see some new, more robust method of obtaining citizenship (i.e., hefty fine plus civics and ESL)? How do other "solidarity" type folks view this?

Some partys are opposed to amnesty and also seem to be against punishing illegal employers as well, so maybe the electric shocks explained in one of the previous post could be used for both.

It wouldnt be amnesty if the illegal workers got a good shocking each time they they got caught working or periodically thereafter at each step in the process of becoming a citizen.

Shocking the illegal employers would have no direct negative economic effects on them so it seems revenue neutral. I dont see a downside.