For your consideration
>>I also hope all employers who are employing illegal immigrants lock them out until they can prove they are here in compliance with U. S. immigration laws.<<
What possible motivation would they have to do that, friend? The crooked employers who employ illegal aliens depend on the illegals to increase their profit margins. They are probably negotiating (perhaps "begging" would be a better word) through their Spanish interpreters with their illegals right now in an effort to get them to work, instead of walk out.
>>Congress really needs to get busy and pass laws making it a criminal offense to employ illegal aliens<<
Nothing personal to the poster, but this is the kind of ignorance that is killing our Country by degrees. It is already a crime to employ an illegal alien. You see, the problem is that the Executive Branch of the Federal Government is violating their oath of office, in which the swore to enforce the laws of the land.
In short, we don't need any more laws against illegal immigration; the Executive has absolutely failed to enforce existing laws. This applies to not only the Bush II administration, but every administration, all the way back to Reagan's...and even before.
This could be considered an impeachable offense. Perhaps the threat of impeachment by the conservative wing of the Republicans in Congress, which would give the Democrats who are in favor of impeachment enough votes to get it done, would finally get the attention of George W. Bush. God knows, nothing else has thus far. He continues to fail in his sworn duty, while the Country is slowly burning.
Folks, we need to get smarter concerning our laws, and the real consequences to our economy of having illegal aliens displace American workers, enabled by the crooked employers who hire them.
We are selling out our future for cheap lettuce. It has to stop. If not, this problem will destroy the United States as we know it.