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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Tim Sullivan and Rebecca Boone

The White House talks tough on illegal immigration but ignores a key tool that could reduce it

Immigration Business Enforcement - (Austin American-Statesman)

The Trump administration is touting an immigration crackdown that includes putting shackled immigrants on U.S. military planes, expanding agents' arrests of people here illegally and abandoning programs that gave some permission to stay.

One tool that's conspicuously absent from President Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce illegal immigration: Going after the businesses that hire workers who are in the U.S. illegally.

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