And while we are at it

If the government will not enforce our present immigration laws and arrest, fine, and jail those hiring them, then I have a solution.  For every citizen or corporation hiring illegals, a tax.  We can call it an immigration tax since both parties insist on refering to these illegals as "immigrants".  Yes, and immigration tax.  Any business or individual can hire as many as they want, but they will have to pay a 50% tax on earning to offset the cost to the taxpayer.  And anyone caught not paying this tax, be arrested and fined all the way back to 1986.  For instance, if a business has 10 illegals on the payroll and has not declared any of them and this business makes,oh, say $1million a year.  Since the last amnesty was 31 years ago, said business would be fined say $5000 per year for every illegal on the books when caught.  So if that business has 10 illegals on the payroll in 2017, then he has been using illegals for 31 years.  So 10x$5000x31 years. That business would have to pay a fine of @2million dollars.  This seems fair to me.  They can hire their illegals at cheap wages but it will cost them.