You do make a very good point.
What would swing it for me is those given amnesty have to be willing to give evidence against any businesses that employed them over the 10+ year period. By giving an amnesty we can catch employers who hire illegal immigrants and fine them.
For me it’s more about stopping businesses hiring illegal workers than stopping illegal immigrants per se. Obviously when an illegal immigrant is caught they should be deported ASAP, but we are never going to stop people from other countries where the quality of living is low wanting to live in Britain: you can’t blame them for wanting a better life, if I was born in a third world country I’d want to live here.
We need to make it not worth the savings for businesses to employ illegal immigrants through punitive measures. Like I said before the up to £10,000 fine per illegal worker is a good start, but we need more, it needs to be such a disadvantage in business to hire illegals that only the lowest of the low (organised crime) will employ illegal immigrants.
By doing this illegal immigrants will still enter the country, but they won’t be able to find work in relatively legal places of business and will have no choice but to leave or starve.
It should not be possible for illegal immigrants to survive in Britain for 10+ years working illegally.
David
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