Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 9:16 AM Pacific

I think this is known as calling a bluff

For some reason, the immigration debate focuses almost exclusively on immigrants -- not people who hire them when they come here.

Almost always, when an immigrant is here illegally, somebody has hired that immigrant illegally.

Now that the Bush Administration has proposed cracking down on these "illegal employers," they are crying foul.

Justice Seeks Delay in Court Challenge to Immigration Plan Bush Administration Says It Will Modify Crackdown on Employers Who Hire Illegal Workers

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 25, 2007; Page A11

The Bush administration said Friday that it will modify its planned crackdown on U.S. companies that employ illegal immigrants, asking a federal judge to delay hearing a lawsuit brought by major American labor, business and farm organizations until the new strategy is completed.

In papers filed in San Francisco late Friday afternoon, Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey S. Bucholtz told U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer that the Homeland Security Department is making unspecified changes to its plan to pressure employers to fire as many as 8.7 million workers with suspect Social Security numbers.

In it's own weird way, the Bush Administration's plan called the bluff of illegal employers.

If people were paying attention, they might realize people aren't coming to the United States for driver's licenses.

They are coming here for jobs.

Want to impact immigration? It's pretty simple. Focus on the magnet: jobs.