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LOL. When ICE detained 900 employees from Tyson Foods who were undocumented, many provided them with written instructions from the company on how to fill out onboarding, payroll, and tax paperwork if they were undocumented immigrants, i.e., the company was perfectly aware and actively facilitating.

When they had their big press conference to announce the 900 arrests, reporters asked about plans to investigate the company based on the documentation found.

"That's not in the scope of our investigation. We do not have plans to do that at this time."

To no one's shock, they've never found time to do it since, either.

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It would require an organization 4 times larger than the IRS to deal with all the court cases. If that’s cheaper than stone, count us in :)

How about starting with getting the largest republican border state to require private business to run a free simple check of the persons work status?[0] The federal gov has had a free system for that for years. But they won't and they wont create an enforcement agency to check that state government offices comply. I am sure they can find it in the 11B immigration budget to audit some businesses. They won't.

Undocumented immigrants are too important to the economy, to the tune of over 17.7 billion worth in 2005. (in Texas)

Instead they do things that look great (and check the most important box): border wall (that the US gov pays us for), security forces (that the US gov pays us for), mandating that the sheriffs work with fed agencies (that the US will reimburse them for). But passing a law that requires businesses use a free quick government service to check documents and a small agency to do random audits -- that's to too burdensome on the state's bottom line. Any one that thinks states like Texas actually wants to eliminate undocumented immigration at this point, has simply been hoodwinked.

[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/05/texas-e-verify-requi...

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