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Three Decades of Failed Reform: Immigration Politics and the Collapse of Worksite Enforcement
 
By Jerry Kammer on August 2, 2018

National Review, July 26, 2018

The year was 2007. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) performed a sudden raid at a factory in New Bedford, Mass., that sewed rucksacks and ammunition pouches for the U.S. military. Despite a local unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, the factory owners had recruited unauthorized Central American immigrants, provided them with phony identification papers, paid them the minimum wage or less, manipulated records to deny overtime pay, and imposed sweatshop conditions including $20 fines for bathroom breaks longer than two minutes. "Now I understand how they kept outbidding me," said a competitor.

Today, in the aftermath of President Trump's similarly strenuous campaign to stem the flow of Central Americans across the Rio Grande, leading Democrats are calling for ICE to be abolished completely. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has suggested that immigration enforcement is the work of racist bigots. "We have to stop vilifying and criminalizing whole populations of people because they came and arrived here from south of the border!" she proclaimed last year. Meanwhile Trump, while declaring an urgent need for a wall across the Mexican border, has shown scant interest in repairing the virtual wall around the American jobs market that Congress long ago promised but has abjectly failed to deliver.

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"Enforcement" at the employer level will never in itself succeed in limiting illegal immigration.

The ONLY strategic way to do it is by a physical barrier -- the wall.
Walls work.
Impenetrable walls work even better...