Quickly Accomplishing Mass Deportation via the IRS

We Can (Largely) Solve H1-B Visa Abuse AND Illegal Immigration via the Federal Tax Code

Why are citizens of the USA subsidizing our own unemployment through the tax code?

That is a compelling question to ask.

The federal income tax was <ahem> imposed upon us thanks to the first “Progressive” President, Woodrow Wilson. Ever since it’s been employed as part of the Progressives’ long-term project intended to “fundamentally transform” us away from being a constitutional republic.

But since we’re stuck with it – at least for now – why not “fundamentally transform” (at least elements of it) for MAGA purposes?

Here’s a common sense proposal:

At present, employers are allowed to fully deduct the entire cost of employees’ wages and benefits from their federal income tax liability. That includes H1-B visa holders and non-citizen employees (whether legally present in this country, or here as illegal aliens a/k/a “migrants”).

So, in effect, the American taxpayer is subsidizing their own unemployment! “Replacement migration” in the workforce is fully deductible!

So instead, should not the American federal tax code limit wage and benefit deductibility to the employment of American citizens?

Employers all the way from Silicon Valley to local landscapers would no longer be able deduct the cost of employing foreigners instead of Americans. And those that continued to employ foreigners, and continue to deduct expenses related to same, would be subject to IRS audits and criminal penalties.

Innumerable employers would decide that it’s time to once again start employing American citizens.

In turn, this step alone would largely eliminate one of the two primary magnets for illegal immigrants (the other being the current anchor baby loophole). No longer employable, millions would self-deport, without us incurring the time and expense of federal district court injunctions and (years from now) “immigration hearings.”

Such a common-sense change to our tax code would also discourage American corporations from establishing (or expanding) operations overseas, as the deductibility of wages and benefits paid to those foreigners working in foreign countries would no longer be deductible from federal income taxes. (Note to American taxpayers: through “our” tax code you’ve been subsidizing the employment of foreign nationals in foreign lands, such as at the ubiquitous “call centers.”)

It is unclear whether President Trump can accomplish this through executive order – at least as an interim step – or through changes current IRS regulations. But if so, immediate action is called for!

If it would require legislative action, enacting such should be a no-brainer for Republicans (at least, for the non-UniParty “Republicans”). A sufficient outcry from the American electorate could indeed overwhelm the lobbyists from the corporate “cheap labor” crowd.

For the public, the motto should be: “Stop subsidizing the employment of foreigners! Make American Employees Great Again!”