Indiana's Illegal Immigration Problem

Here in Indiana, the House of Representatives are dealing with a bill that would punish companies that KNOWINGLY hire illegal immigrants. The bill requires employees use a federal system to verify citizenship. If the company violates the law three times in a 10 year period, the state would revoke the business' license.

As usual, the illegal immigrant enablers have come out and called the sponsors of the bill anti-immigrant and racists. The problem I have with this is that the verification would be used for EVERY potential employee. Bob Smith could be illegally here from Toronto. Jose Espinosa could have been born in Seattle, Washington. If you are able to produce the documents needed, you have no problem. If you can't, well...

I had to show my information to my employer when I filled out the I-4 form. I don't think it's too much to ask everybody else do the same.