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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: If the right was being honest about wanting to stem the flow of illegal immigration, there is a very simple solution. Go after the people who benefit from their labor by seizing their assets.
gpt
I've seen a lot of people on the right propose that we fine employers that hire illegal/undocumented workers. Not all on the right oppose these measures.

It should be noted that not all the right are even anti-immigrant. Take the Wall Street Journal for example. They frequently take a pro-immigration stance on their editorial pages, precisely because it's a big boon for business.

Even if someone was opposed to fines on employers but did support deportation of those here illegally, it'd still have a negative effect on employers of undocumented workers. It would limit the labor pool from which they hire, driving up their labor costs. Businesses would still suffer, albeit less directly.

If you're point here is to argue that the right is hypocritical on immigration, then you could turn the tables and argue the left is, too. I've seen a lot on the left support fines on employers of illegal immigrants while at the same time supporting a lax immigration policy. In other words, they want to make it easier for someone to come to the United States illegally, but make it more difficult to find work once they're here since we'd be fining those that employ them. Seems almost like a cruel joke to me. Those on the right seem almost humanitarian by comparison, since they'd make it harder for illegal aliens to come and stay here, but at least they'd have a means to sustain themselves all the while "living in the shadows."