Reply #48: you are calling for a police state [View All]

Odd that the very people who want to throw "them" out of America have such a profound contempt for the principles upon which the country was founded - which is really all that the country is, since unlike other nations it is not based on ethnicity or religion.

Employers are precluded from applying a double standard to candidates for employment based on "suspicion" and would we really want employers to become a de facto agent for law enforcement? Employers are precluded from doing the sort of background check that would tell them with certainty whether or not a person were legal. Do we want that under any circumstances, even if it would work?

How do we know whom to suspect and whom not to suspect, if not based on race? Should you be held legally liable - criminally liable for a felony and jailed - if it turns out the person who mowed your lawn or cleaned your gutters was not "legal?" Will you be asking for proof of citizenship before you give anyone a ride, have them in your house, or hire them for an odd job? Should you go to jail if you fail to do that? What if the proof of citizenship is not valid? Then what? You will still be criminally liable, or otherwise how can we hold employers liable?

What would you do in those circumstances? Turn away brown people to cover your ass and be on the safe side? Of course you would. What else could you do? You would not turn away a white person, because you know on some level that even if they were an undocumented alien the likelihood of you getting into trouble would be very small. Of course it would, and of course you know that.