Why don't they arrest the people who are hiring the Workers?

[spanone]

Because it's all for television, which is all trmp knows.

[Pisces]

1. They could also fine them 1 million per violation if they want it to stop immediately

[Orrex]

30. I've called for something similar.

Fine them $100,000 per illegal hire per day, with interest and fees retroactive to date of hire.

Some drooler claimed that the illegal workers might have lied to their exploiters, and he asked if I'd punish someone who unknowingly passed a counterfeit $100 bill.

Passed one? Probably not. Passed many dozens a day over a period of weeks or months or years? Fuck yeah!

[sop]

2. This isn't about doing the most effective thing to control immigration, it's about making MAGA morons happy.

Nothing pleases Trump's followers more than watching immigrants being rounded up and hauled away by jack-booted thugs.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Company managers and execs have lawyers and won't be deported before accessing them like average ICE arrestee. . . nt

[questionseverything]

4. At the meat packing plant, the manager said, why are you busting us, we use e verify?

The “cop” said, it’s broken

In other words we have a quota and law enforcement doesn’t care if it’s legal or not

[flashman13]

35. "It's broken" - That's straight out of a cheap dystopian movie plot.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Because the point is to force immigrants to leave, and to spread terror

[MichMan]

29. The immigrants would also leave once no one would employ them

Make the punishment for hiring undocumented workers so tough, that no one would take the chance.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Arresting the owners would stop the produce, roofing, and restaurant businesses

nationwide. Applying the law would disrupt commerce. Republican Gods won't accept that.

[maxsolomon]

17. Framing, drywall, concrete, landscaping, elder care, house cleaning...

So many vital services reliant on immigrant labor.

The only 2 trades I see that AREN'T immigrant labor are Plumbing and Electrical, because you need certification.

[JohnnyRingo]

28. ...or it would force companies to pay a decent wage.

Heaven forbid!
Everybody knows if CEO has to pay their workers and live in a mansion with a yacht they go belly up.

[jls4561]

7. Remembering during the pandemic when Fatass45 declared that meat packing was essential to national security

or whatever? Only those who pay him fealty (or bribes) will continue to operate.

Note that his golf course near LA has not seen ICE, nor any of his other whorehouses resorts.

[hvn_nbr_2]

8. Maybe because the owners generally have lower levels of epidermal melanin? nt

[Hekate]

21. Bingo. They also have high levels of green cash, if they are Agribusiness.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Because they are GOP donors

[surfered]

32. And voters

[UpInArms]

10. From the Omaha story

Glenn Valley, which produces frozen beef, chicken and pork products, has about 140 workers at its Omaha plant, Hartmann said.

The warrant said 107 of those workers would be investigated, Hartmann said. Many of those employees were cleared, he said. “I just don’t know how many were not.”

Hartmann said immigration officials collected each of the plant employees’ I-9 forms in February and reviewed them. He said the company uses the federal system to check the identity and legal status of employees, known as E-Verify.

“We’ve done everything we’re supposed to do as a company,” Hartmann said.

Several plant workers, including Marisol Mejía, streamed out of the plant after agents had verified their legal status.

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/ice-raids-hit-omaha-meatpacking-plants/

[LiberalArkie]

11. They are big contributors to the GOP.

[William769]

14. BINGO!

[IronLionZion]

15. Then they should object to losing their workers

since it's bad for business

[LiberalArkie]

23. Just bodies. They will have more brought in from Mexico and other nations... Just a temp loss, write the losses off

[H2O Man]

12. Recommended.

Seems to be a pattern.

[BaronChocula]

13. In other words...

Why aren't they holding the responsible people with more money and power accountable?

[ancianita]

16. EXACTLY. I made this argument years ago. It's also ALL for corporate gain in capturing a democratic government.

[Demobrat]

18. The system is built for them to hide behind.

As long as they are shown a social security card, any social security card, they are covered. The numbers are fake, they know they are fake, but as long as SS is deducted from worker’s paychecks the owners are good. Of course the workers never see that money again.

[LauraInLA]

19. Bingo. According to the LATimes article about ICE at farms, they specifically mention Boskovitch Farms. Why?

Because of all the farms in Ventura county raided by ICE, only Boskovitch let them in. I wonder what kind of fines they’ll get.

[Hekate]

22. Intriguing

[mike_c]

20. they're "job creators" doncha know?

[Iamscrewed]

24. Ronald fucking Reagan

[ToxMarz]

25. How about they start with Mitt Romney and Meg Whitman

[JohnnyRingo]

26. I was just pointing that out today to a friend.

I'm all for immigration, but when a restaurant or a hotel hires undocumented workers to shave costs, that's not right. Citizens could be working those construction jobs or bussing tables for a decent wage.

Levy a real fine on business owners and CEOs with prison time for repeat offenders

I understand migrant workers picking fruit and grapes etc, that's seasonal and there isn't a job pool within three hours of places like NAPA Valley. They come here, work three months while they send their money home, then when the harvest season is over they go back nd live off their savings (in a country where a dollar goes a long way).

[MichMan]

31. Imagine owning a company that follows the rules and gets underbid on every job

Trying to compete while paying decent wages with benefits along with workman's comp, unemployment and payroll taxes against competitors who are doing nothing of the sort.

[JohnnyRingo]

41. No business can compete against a company breaking the rules.

Perhaps they could purchase stolen inventory or use slave labor. A company would get the underbid if they employed children or smuggled in untaxed raw materials. How does one compete against a company that hires undocumented workers?

That doesn't mean it's necessary to follow suit if the laws of commerce are upheld. And they should be. They result would be a better paycheck for everyone.

[Norrrm]

36. Trump's pal, Kid Rock, owns a restaurant that helped its undocs escape a search.... by closing for a night.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220382047

[Evolve Dammit]

27. Cruelty is easier on those who can't fight back.

[BidenRocks]

33. No immigrant labor?

Hire from the grade schools!
You know they are already doing this, right?
They work graveyard shift cleaning.

[aggiesal]

34. Because they donated to his campaign so that they don't get raided. ...

Come on, get with the program!

[Norrrm]

37. Remember:::: whatever bad that Donald says about "illegals"/undoc immigrants, he would rather hire them than pay Americ

Remember:::: whatever bad that Donald says about "illegals"/undoc immigrants, he would rather hire them than pay Americans.
The very same "illegals"/undoc immigrants that he blames for so much crime.

He only quit hiring them when it became politically inconvenient.

[BigMin28]

38. Here in Texas

Repukes are always crying about immigrants. Yet another legislative session has come, and they refuse to mandate the use of E-Verify for businesses in Texas. The employers will never face consequences for hiring.

[RandomNumbers]

39. Because it would be the right and legal thing to do

and that just isn't their playbook.

[speak easy]

40. $$$