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Originally Posted by Namath12
I get your point but there has to be some consequence to the employer, otherwise the abuses never stop because the incentive to not abuse doesn't exist. (Also minor nit, you mentioned "fines" not "prosecutions" in the op)
But the abuses don't stop with the fines either. I submit they get worse. Businesses like meat packers hire subcontractors who hire subcontractors who hire the actual workers and all the documentation is faked. You fine or prosecute one group, but that doesn't affect the industry because it's too profitable to operate like that.
Just give the workers the same rights as any other workers. Nothing else is a solution and pretending that you win by clamping down on something here is just like the drug war. When there's enough incentive to have a black market it will happen.
And...the undocumented have to work. This is just another angle to outlaw them, make them desperate and if not take an illegal job, do what? Starve? Dissuade other people from coming here because everyone who does starves?