US To Crackdown On Companies Employing Aliens

The Bush administration unveiled Thursday what it said is a new strategy aimed at companies employing illegal immigrants, illustrating it with a crackdown on the German-based firm IFCO Systems. Law enforcement officials will "use all the tools we have, whether it be criminal enforcement or immigration laws to break the back" of businesses that exploit undocumented immigrants, said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at a news conference. "We're looking at them in the same way we look at criminal organizations," he said. Good. It's about time something like this was started. But it won't be enough with the influx of illegal aliens making it into the US daily. We need to be tougher on the border.