Workplace Enforcement Is the Key to Mass Deportations
By Ronald W. Mortensen on April 7, 2025
For decades, the number of working-age illegal aliens entering the United States was roughly equivalent to the demand created by employers who want low-cost and easily exploitable illegal workers. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provided limited, short-term assistance to newly arriving illegal aliens and continued to provide some longer-term services for non-working illegal aliens. Religious organizations welcomed and supported illegal aliens because they saw them as a source of new members. However, that all changed when the Biden administration opened the nation’s borders to millions of illegal aliens, asylum seekers, and parolees.
Now the Trump administration is faced with the overwhelming task of removing millions of individuals illegally in the United States. This can only ultimately be accomplished by large-scale workplace enforcement actions that identify large numbers of illegal aliens and lead to their deportation, that eliminate jobs for illegal aliens by holding employers accountable, and that encourage illegal aliens to voluntarily leave the United States.
Biden Administration’s Open Borders Resulted in an Illegal Labor Supply/Demand Imbalance
Prior to the Biden administration, the supply/demand equation for illegal labor read something like: “Supply of Illegal Aliens ≅ Demand for Illegal Labor”.
The Biden administration changed this formula to read: “Supply of Illegal Aliens ≅ Demand for Illegal Labor + Political Factors”.
This new equation greatly expanded the pool of low-cost, easily exploitable labor that employers draw from while shifting many of their costs onto the taxpayers. In addition, sanctuary state and local governments, NGOs, and religious organizations received billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to provide millions of newly arrived illegal aliens, asylum seekers, and parolees with transportation, food, housing, medical services, legal assistance, cell phones, etc.
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