“...Federal records show that between April 2018 to March 2018 only 11 employers were prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants in a nation with millions of undocumented workers. Why?”

Because in an era of identity theft and incredibly good fake documents, and green cards, it is almost impossible to prove that employers *knowingly* hired illegal aliens.

E verify doesn’t work.

Until we start registering legal residents with a DNA sample, these laws are darn near unenforceable.

Fortunately for all of us, the law requires a great deal of proof in these area before it is worthwhile to prosecute.

Thanks for exposing this. Utterly infuriating. Some of these corporate scum should be behind bars.

So, basically, your objection is that he's a Democrat.

Because this has been going on for years, and notable "blue" area pols have been conspiring to violate existing US law all this time.

Watch your step.

If it were up to me, I'd crack down but have a grace period of say 6 months or so, where anyone you'd hired before that would be able to be registered and start the queue and paperwork. You would register all necessary papers, they would too, and if you were in good faith trying to do it legally you'd be OK. This would obviously have to include a path to possible work visa/greencard/other legal status.

I know in theory we would like to punish everyone who broke the law, but in practice I think it would be incredibly onerous, and better to have a transition period than to suddenly crack down on laws that weren't previously enforced.

Maybe under the same immigration laws we could prosecute and jail the government officials who run sanctuary cities? And provide illegal aliens social services purchased with your tax dollars?

At the very least it is fraud. When you register them to vote, and protect them from federal immigration authorizes, most likely sedition as well.

The report here has a graph showing the prosecutions from March 2004 to March 2019. The last two years are in line with the previous administration.

This can be explained by the bureaucratic apparatchiks continuing the previous policy instead of any new policy. Because they're the heroic #Resistance.

https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/559/

He angers his base by not mandating e-verify. Then again, the Repuke Congress wouldn't do the necessary work to make it so that an employer who used e-verify had a simple process without creating a new liability (if your e-verify reports you can't hire a group from nationality X, then the government must immunize an employer from liability for discrimination on national origin).

He's the only one who can alienate his base and thus lose the election, but the useless Ryan-Romney Repukes did a lot of that leg work, because Republicans are born losers.

I never believed Trump was serious about cutting immigration. Why should he be? Surely his businesses benefit from cheap labor as much as any others. All he had to do to win on that issue was talk the talk, because no one else was doing even that much.

The restaurant down the street from the restaurant my friend worked got raided. The government was really going to punish them because 80% of the employees were found to be in the US illegally. The place had documents including e-verify for everyone. Many were stolen ids. In the end the government could not do anything to the restaurant.

"because Republicans are born losers."

N.B.: Republicans control the White House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, govern 27 states, control 31 state Senates and 29 state Houses. America's counties voted 2600 to 500 in favor of President Trump.

Maybe 'losers' isn't the correct pejorative.

@Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers

They are constitutionally disposed to think they are in the minority. They cannot govern. Mr. Trump tried to teach them how to win, and how to advance an agenda, and the Ryan-Romney coalition would not have it.

What agenda did they advance in the first two years of Trump? A tax cut - ill-timed to be effective, and that significant numbers of people don't like or don't see as a significant positive to them. Most of the Republican leadership in the House ran against Mr. Trump.

What are they doing to Jim Jordans in Ohio, the one in the House leadership who supports Trump? Why, the Kasich machine is trying to eliminate his district.

What agenda did the GOP advance in the Bush years? They got a tax cut, and then Jumpin' Jim Jeffords decided that being in charge was gauche.

Trump appeared capable of governing. Newt Gingrich was capable of governing.

They cannot advance an agenda, so the fact that they hold so many offices is demoralizing to the base since nothing tangible that they promise is ever delivered.

Why were they only willing to vote in the House on the abortion bans when the Democrats were in charge of the chamber? Where was that abortion ban on January 21, 2017?

Winning is imposing your will. The GOP has failed my entire adult life to advance any of the agenda promises since the Contract with America. They "conserve" nothing; they exploded the public debt, so that it grew more obscenely under GOP Houses than Democrat Houses. They have failed to make peace.

Look at how much the GOP squandered Michigan in the last 3 years. Holding the state house, state legislature (both chambers - by large numbers), AG, SoS - and Snyder et al made a point of "governing differently" and not advancing the agenda items - and flipping it in the 2016 election. AG Schuette decided to prosecute Snyder and his people, and to literally run a general campaign against "Oakland County Republicanism". They were swept out of the governor's office, AG, and SoS. The margin in the chambers shrank from commanding to 1 seat in the state senate. Trump won Michigan, and then the state GOP - which ran against him in 2016 and 2018; his predilection for embracing enemies is why Ronna Romney is at RNC now - the state GOP imploded because they were unable to govern.

"Winning is imposing your will."

We'll tell Ms. Riefenstahl that you're ready for your closeup!