I think the only problem is that we are not reducing public and private sector costs with better public policy. We would not have a problem with migrant, black market labor participation if we had a market friendly work visa scheme to deter such practices. With a market friendly work visa scheme, any current illegal would simply be fined and issued a work visa. Illegal problem solved. Any foreign labor market participants could simply apply for a work visa without the expense of the fine. A market friendly work visa could also incorporate catastrophic forms of insurance to reduce those costs to the states and their private sectors.
As for states "cracking down" on people from out of State, they no longer have the authority to enforce customs since it expired in 1808. Section 9: "The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person." That the states are usurping federal authority doesn't surprise me. The states are also denied and disparaged the power and right to "impair the Obligation of Contracts" according to our Constitution.
It only confirms that people don't really have a problem with illegals or illegality, if they can blame it on less fortunate illegals and their illegality.
That some people believe we have a unitary form of federal government is the result of a faulty education system that does not adequately inform the electorate on how their form of federal government was designed to work.
Why is it that some people would prefer communist style forms of prohibition, rather than public policy that achieves what some of the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution?
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As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
- George Washington, 1st US President
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
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The private sector has a Ninth Amendment power and right to create social contracts that may result in employment. They are not charged with customs enforcement and should not have to incur that expense since they already pay taxes to the federal government.
We could be ensuring that our economy remains the most productive economy in the world instead of lowering our standard of living through the use of command economics better suited to totalitarian regimes.