There are approximately 11 million illegal aliens in America, the vast majority working and paying taxes. They are predominantly in food service jobs, cleaning jobs, and manual labor jobs. Passing a law that forces employers to fire all those workers would massively disrupt the American economy. Food prices would skyrocket without field workers, cooks, dishwashers, etc etc. The price of house cleaning would skyrocket. The price of construction would go way up. There would be severe labor shortages because frankly illegals do a lot of the work most Americans don't want to do. One of America's big economic assets is this huge underclass of low wage workers. The business community knows this. Republicans know this. So yes they don't want to solve the problem because the only real solution is immigration reform and a path to citizenship, but that means republicans could no longer exploit this underclass with lower wages and they could no longer demagogue the illegal alien issue to their base.
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