John Curley’s solution for illegal immigration: ‘Incentivize the employers’

When it comes to solving illegal immigration, KIRO host John Curley said officials should be focused on one priority—money.

“What is the cost to deport them? What is the cost to put them through the court system? So I don’t know what the total cost is, but that’s part. You have to press that number,” he said on “The John Curley Show.” “And then you look at, if the person stays here, and if they’re productive in that they’re working and they’re generating money, and they’re paying their taxes, so then what’s that number?”

Once you figure out the number of people who snuck in and are harmful to society, you get them to come forward. But how do you do that? Curley said you either A, fine the businesses for harboring illegal employees, or B, incentivize the businesses to bring them forward.

“We’ll give you some sort of tax break if you take your employees that you have there, and we’ll take good care, and we’re not going to deport them, but we need them to come forward. Need them to register. So we’re going to incentivize the employers, because right now there’s no incentive for those guys,” he said.

Incentivize businesses and immigrants, says Curley

And not only do you incentivize the businesses, Curley said, but also the immigrants.

“If you come forward within this amount of time, we’re going to do this and this for you. There’s carrot, carrot, carrot. If you wait 120 days, there’s going to be less carrots. And then if you wait two years or a year, it’s going to be all stick. You have to either give the carrot or the stick to incentivize the behavior that you want,” he explained.

Curley said the other part of controlling illegal immigration is securing the border.

“Keep the wall up, or build the wall, stop people from coming in, and just make it harder for those that do sneak in to be able to get employment,” he said. “The reason they’re here, the majority, is because they can get a job here, and they have a better life here. That’s the incentive. So they’re already here, the cost is too high. Get out of the shadows. Come on in and vote Republican. That’s the most important thing.”

Listen to the full conversation below.

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