"At first glance the costs associated with this new workplace system are huge,
and I would have expected the Chamber of Commerce and others to strenuously
resist transfer of the costs of immigration enforcement from the federal
government to the private sector. There are some significant penalties here that
ordinary businesses will simply be stunned to discover especially in the
paperwork department.
The willingness to go along suggests that there’s a
loophole the size of a black hole hidden within the text, and again we are taken
to the loophole of “probationary Z visas,” discussed in my first post on the
bill’s fine print."
Employers will have to verify that the workers that they employee are legal or have probationary visas. The easiest thing for any employer to do at this point is to take all their workers to apply for their papers at the same time. It will cover them legally, and the workers will be able to stay and work until their applications are either approved or denied - which most will probably never be either. I do agree that taking aim at the employers is an important part of any immigration reform.
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