New AZ Ice Chief will crack down on illegals

Check this out from Forbes:

Matthew Allen, the new chief of investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona, said illegal immigrants would be less likely to come to the state if they knew employers wouldn’t offer them jobs.

This is true. I look at the illegal immigration issue as a supply and demand problem. How can we more easily control it? We can either cut down the supply of illegal immigrants crossing the border or cut down the demand on employers looking to hire them. The employer sanctions law attempts to do this by making employers use the E-Verify system.

Allen goes on:

“We can’t arrest our way out of this problem,” Allen said. “No one in the U.S. government - whether that’s (the Department of Homeland Security) or (Department of Justice) - has the capacity to arrest, go out and physically arrest, every alien who is here illegally.”

Again he is right.  The battle against illegal immigration will take efforts on many different levels.   The police and ICE will be able to arrest some.  The employer sanctions law will keep people from coming to Arizona.  E-Verify will make it harder for employers to hire illegal immigrants.  If you take a multi-pronged approach to fighting illegal immigration you are more likely to win the battle.