Bringing the American back to American Jobs: The Importance of Employer Sanctions and E-Verify

Arizona's Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act had faced several injunctions blocking several key parts of the Bill, but one part of the bill is still active.  This part allowed the imposition of strict employer sanctions and revocation of business licenses if a business has been implicated in the hiring of illegal immigrants.  It also permitted the use of electronic employer verification (E-Verify) in an effort to determine employees and their legal status.

Once again, both sides have argued for and against efforts to regulate hiring of illegal immigrants.  Most, including Governor Jan Brewer, praised this judicial decision as an effort to control economic incentives to illegal immigration.  However, ethnocentric and extreme liberals groups (such as La Raza and the Brown Berets) argue that it will create undue racial profiling and alienation of legal Latinos.  Immigration reduction activists (such as NumbersUSA) counter by saying anti-immigrant legislation (through economic or physical regulation) allow the promotion of the domestic interests and reduce American unemployment.

In order to maintain the facts, one needs to determine whether immigration is good.  Is it a humanitarian effort or a promotion of the idea that one can sell themselves to a better market?  The humanitarian argument can be construed in two different ways.  One may say it is more humane to allow to employ illegal immigrants for a better livelihood and chance to improve their families in the parent state.  However, others may counter with the idea that giving illegal aliens employment is more inhumane due to the unfairness to those who come here legally and American citizens who are also demanding employment.  On top of this, individuals who do enter the host nation (especially one that is economically and socially advantaged) do not wish to return and aid their parent nation, thus becoming an undue burden upon the host nation.  Roy Beck seems to have a point when he makes immigration analogous to gumballs.



I simply conclude by stating that the nation needs to really think twice before we start giving amnesty to a small group of humans who can do much better improving the quality of their nations. Should we allow illegal immigrants (possible criminals, fugitives, and job-seekers) to destroy the welfare of America when they have the potential to improve the nation they have left? As American citizens are losing jobs due to the ravages of illegal immigration, we need to make sure our infrastructures do not destroy ourselves and the nations we're claiming to help.