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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Illegal migration has been going on for decades but no President has met it full on. Even though it effects so many areas, unemployment, education, housing, healthcare, policing, etc.
A campaign of strict enforcement of illegals employment rules decades ago with harsh fines or confiscation or prison would have stemmed illegal migration. Fines to meet the costs of finding companies, deporting illegals, then judging and fining the guilt companies, making the cost of doing the job nothing.
But so Presidents have done little to nothing and even encouraged illegal migration by amnesty to illegals.
Why do you think that is?
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The answer is simple - money.
The agriculture, construction, and food processing industries in this country lean heavily on illegal immigrant labor. I grew up in a small town that had a lot of farms nearby. My senior year of high school I worked at a small convenience store. During the spring and summer months we had what everyone referred to as "The Mexican Rush" at the store. Between 3-6pm every day we would get several buses full of migrant workers coming in from the fields. If the government actually put the hammer down on these industries they would be forced to hire Americans for these jobs and those people would want a hell of a lot more money so the cost of houses and food would go up.
The presidents find themselves in a tough spot. If they go after these industries they will be accused of being anti-business/socialist. If they don't they are pro-illegal immigration. Most of them choose to strike a position that lands them in the area where they go after some groups of illegals, but they mostly turn a blind eye on the businesses that are providing them the very opportunity they are coming here to seek.