Speaker. He made that reference
in a discussion among several of my colleagues, and I said: Yes, you
helped me, and I appreciate it, Mr. President, but I market-tested your
immigration policy for 14 years, and you knew how Iowans were going to
respond and how most people across the country were going to respond
because I market-tested it. And he did a great job with it, and he gave it more clarity than I
have given. But throughout all of that, it was: build the wall and
secure our borders and enforce domestic immigration law and reinforce
ICE and reinforce Border Patrol and CBP, put that all together, and the
birthright citizenship. Support English as the official language. These
are just some of the pieces along the way, and we have refined some of
this since then. And also, it was the New IDEA Act, the act that denies deductibility
for wages and benefits paid to illegals, and let's see IRS come in and
do the enforcement through the normal audit process. So if the IRS came
in under the New IDEA Act and did a normal audit, they would run the
Social Security numbers and other pertinent information of employees
through E-Verify. If E-Verify confirmed that these employees could
legally work in the United States, the employer will get safe harbor
for having hired them; if they couldn't verify it, the employer gets 72
hours to cure, we see, 72 hours to correct the record. But, if he is hiring illegals, then the IRS would say: All right. But
you can't deduct this $10,000, $20,000, $100,000 that you paid this
illegal, and so we are going to have to charge taxes on that because
that deduction is not a business expense; it is actually income
instead.
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