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EMPLOYER SANCTIONS
Employer sanctions is a law that punishes employers with a fine for "knowingly" hiring undocumented workers. Most politicians claim that we need stronger Employer Sanctions laws to protect American jobs and deter illegal immigration. But the truth is that Employer Sanctions:
DID NOT PROTECT: It made the undocumented workforce even more attractive by stripping away their rights to demand fair conditions and forcing U.S. citizens and documented workers to compete with them in a race-to-the-bottom.
DID NOT DETER: It actually increased the demand for a vulnerable group of workers and invigorated employer demand for cheap labor. Today there is an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., a dramatic increase from the estimated 4 million present when IRCA was enacted. In the 1990s, there was a net annual increase of approximately 500,000 persons.
What Employer Sanctions really did is give the employer the power to use immigration status to divide workers and pit them against one another. This division is the main cause of the deteriorating working and living conditions we face today.
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