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it's not Democrats who refuse to penalize businesses for hiring illegal immigrants. Democrats pretty openly advocate for more opportunities for illegal immigrants to integrate into society. The GOP raises the biggest alarm about the economic impact of illegals, they're also the group least willing to apply the regulatory burden on businesses that would make enforcement possible.If you propose to fix this which democrats site all the time by making it almost impossible for illegals to work by going after the people that hire them they go quite or deflect.
Take Texas for example:
Despite promising during the 2014 race to crack down on Texas employers who hire undocumented workers, it was status quo last session in the state Senate that Patrick oversees. And illegal hiring practices in the Texas workplace, which the state has authority to police, have largely gone missing from his public outrage over the porous border and illegal immigration.
The GOP has turned illegal immigrants into another issue that they want to beat the war drums over but don't want to actually be responsible for. They keep saying "Dems this and Dems that..." but the Dems have been pretty open about what they believe and what they'll do in furtherance of it. Cracking down on illegal immigrant workers is a GOP position...right until they have to implement new rules on businesses and then they revert back to "border security".
They've lost their credibility to me on this issue. Border security is important but it's also an easy out. So long as they say "border security" they don't have to take internal steps to address the issue. The rank and file say they're fine paying more for food and services...until prices start to rise and then they start complaining about how rising prices hurt the little guy.
Our principles have to align with what we're willing to do. We have to be willing to piss off the business owners by forcing them to avoid illegal immigrant hires like the plague. We have to be willing to pay significantly higher prices for things, if we're going to keep employing Americans.
What we're doing now is talking out of both sides of our mouths. And as long as we can point to some fault or failing of the Democrats, we keep sidestepping our lack of conviction on these issues.