Workplace Raids Suffocate Illegal Immigration Incentives
March 11, 2025
ACLU Confirms the Left’s Goal
By William Davis
One of the best ways to end the economic incentives for illegal immigration is to raid the workplaces of companies who employ illegal aliens, and the Trump Administration understands this well.
As part of its goal to restore law-and-order to America’s immigration system, the Trump Administration has begun cracking down on companies who employ illegal aliens. Late last month, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a raid on a Mississippi business which led to the arrest of 16 illegal aliens. A few days earlier, ICE also raided a small Texas bakery that has admitted to hiring illegal aliens. The owners of the bakery are now facing federal charges for allegedly harboring illegal aliens. During President Donald Trump’s first term his administration also conducted a raid at a Mississippi-based chicken plant that led to the arrest of nearly 700 illegal aliens. The willingness of the White House to crack down on businesses employing illegal aliens stands in stark contrast to their predecessor.
The Biden Administration announced in its first year in office they would not be conducting workplace raids. Then-Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas spun the administration’s policy as a way to protect workers from exploitation, but the result of the policy was empowering businesses reliant on cheap labor to exploit illegal aliens and drive down American wages.
“These highly visible operations misallocated enforcement resources while chilling, and even serving as a tool of retaliation for, worker cooperation in workplace standards investigations,” Mayorkas said at the time.
https://www.irli.org/workplace-raids-suffocate-illegal-immigration-incentives/
