So you want to get tough on employers?

Everyone agrees that the only effective way of reducing illegal immigration is by making employers reluctant to hire undocumented workers. To do this, you have to give employers a simple, low-cost way of checking a worker's legal status and threaten stiff sanctions to those who won't.

Sounds simple, right? It isn't. Read this.

In fact, the cure may be worse, mucho worse, than the problem.