June 22, 2018: A Perfect Way to Curtail Illegal Immigration without an Expensive Wall

 

6/22/18: The President of the United States starts his morning, as he almost always does, with a tweet. You can tell he really cares about those poor kids being locked up down on the border. 

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“Their phony stories of sadness and grief.” 

President Trump

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His tweet reads: 

We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nothing about it!

 

It’s more gratuitous lying by Trump; and his fans swallow it down like Oliver Twist swilling a second bowl of gruel. 

Contrary to what the president likes to claim, we liberals and Democrats and people with hearts don’t want to let criminals come pouring across the border. This blogging, bloviating liberal often feels the criminals in the story of immigration already reside here in the United States. 

If you missed the story, ICE recently carried out one of its largest immigration raids in years. Agents descended on the Fresh Mark meat-packing plant in Salem, Ohio, and led away 146 employees in cuffs. Fresh Mark is alleged to have hired undocumented workers for years. 

You might start your arrests here.

 

Focus on businesses that hire the undocumented. 

Why would Fresh Mark do it? Simple. The undocumented work cheap and don’t expect healthcare. 

So, this blogger (who thinks immigration helps the country) has a suggestion. If the Trump administration wants to enforce all immigration laws, they can stop detaining toddlers and focus on businesses that hire the undocumented. We know that business folk love Trump. They love Trump because he cuts regulations and taxes. 

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi don’t hire the undocumented. 

Business folks do. 

If you could stop the money-grubbing corporate types from hiring undocumented workers you wouldn’t need a big, beautiful border wall. Companies like Fresh Mark – which has three other factories in Ohio – wouldn’t hire the undocumented if company executives and owners weren’t greedy. 

The Democrat Party isn’t killing American jobs. 

Avaricious bosses are.

 

Exhibit A: Neil Genshaft, CEO of Fresh Mark. Genshaft has a long history of donations to Republican politicians. Between 2000 and 2012 he donated to 21 Republican candidates. In 2012, Genshaft wrote a check to the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from his district. So did a host of Ohio business leaders – because the Republican Party is business-friendly. 

In 2016 he gave $2,500 to “Team Josh,” in support of Josh Mandel, a Republican running for U.S. Senate. 

At no time has Genshaft – the main lawbreaker in this tale – donated to Democratic candidates. 

Now, imagine you wanted to address the matter of undocumented workers being hired by businesspersons out for the easiest possible buck. Why not ask Congress to pass a law fining any business caught hiring the undocumented $25,000 per worker? Make it that much for every year they worked illegally. Then enforce with rigor. 

That would give you enough in fines to pay for your wall, although you wouldn’t need a wall if Congress passed such a law.

 

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“The Trump of Pahrump.” 

REMEMBER THE “GOOD OLD DAYS,” when the Republican Party claimed to stand for family values? 

Dennis Hof, 71, the Republican choice for an assembly seat in the Nevada legislature in November, shows just how far the party has veered from message. Hof campaigned as the “Trump of Pahrump,” to win the primary. Hof tells reporters he is part of the “Trump movement.” He hopes voters will choose him in the regular election in the fall. “People will set aside for a moment their moral beliefs, their religious beliefs, to get somebody that is honest in office,” he adds. “Trump is the trailblazer. He is the Christopher Columbus of honest politics [emphasis added here and below].”

 

Leaving aside Hof’s clear failure to follow the news – leading him to believe Trump is honest – how else does he stand out? He’s been divorced three times, which does seem like he fits in with the “Trump movement.”

 

Hof also bills himself as America’s “most famous pimp.” He owns a strip club and five legal brothels around the state.

 

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LIFELONG CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST George Will suggests in an editorial that everyone with a conscience or spine, or a spleen, should vote against Republican candidates for Congress in November. 

The existing Republican majorities, Will warns, have been no better than the “president’s poodles.”