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Biden Dismantles the Ban on Hiring Illegal Aliens

October 25, 2021 By D.A. King

ecretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas attends a news conference along with U.S. Border Patrol Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz, in Brownsville, Texas, August 12, 2021. (Go Nakamura/Reuters)

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“Of course, under the Biden administration, ICE wasn’t doing any raids anyway, but the memo formalizes that policy.”

A new memo from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on worksite enforcement of immigration laws garnered some media and political attention because it prohibits ICE from conducting worksite raids for illegal aliens. But the memo is more than just the latest in a series of anti-immigration-enforcement directives by this administration. Rather, it represents the Left’s rejection of the very concept of illegal employment.

Step back to 1986, when President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act. The law was structured as a grand bargain that exchanged amnesty for settled illegal aliens in exchange for a first-ever prohibition against the employment of those who try to come in the future. Prior to 1986, federal law explicitly permitted employers to hire illegal aliens — if found out, the illegal alien might face the consequence of deportation, but the employer was off the hook.

The point of the new law was to weaken the magnet of jobs that drew foreigners to sneak across the border in the first place. But the nature of those jobs was not at issue. Yes, many illegal immigrants were, and are, exploited — through wage theft, appalling working conditions, etc. But the point of the ban on hiring illegals is to keep illegal aliens out of the labor market altogether, regardless of how good or bad the jobs are that they’d take. The objective, in other words, was to protect American workers from competition by people who had no right to be here.

Mayorkas’s new memo, on the other hand, is concerned almost exclusively with protecting illegal-immigrant workers. The goal, as Mayorkas writes on the first page, is to “maximize the impact of our efforts by focusing on unscrupulous employers who exploit the vulnerability of undocumented workers” [my emphasis], mentioning specifically “illegal acts ranging from the payment of substandard wages to imposing unsafe working conditions and facilitating human trafficking and child exploitation.”

Those are all bad things, of course, and immigration enforcement is right to target them. But they are merely symptoms of the underlying problem, which is widespread employment of illegal immigrants. Address that, and these violations become much rarer…. more

 

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