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Supply And Demand In The Illegal Employment Of Undocumented Workers, Brian Owsley
Supply And Demand In The Illegal Employment Of Undocumented Workers, Brian Owsley
Catholic University Law Review
The United States is in a quandary regarding immigration. There are over eleven million undocumented aliens residing in the country with about eight million of them working in the American economy.
The federal government has criminalized the illegal entry and the illegal reentry into the United States. Moreover, it has enacted a statute making it illegal to smuggle or harbor aliens. Federal prosecutors across the country have aggressively prosecuted people in violation of these statutes. At the same time, Congress criminalized the illegal employment of undocumented workers, but federal prosecutors rarely ever charge employers with violating this statute.
The economic …