"Why yes, American businesses that collaborate with the Cartels or that National Socialist movement that wants to take the southwest back for some mythical Mexican state that never existed SHOULD be sanctioned into oblivion, thank you for thee suggestion."
Actually this brings a good point. Can Trump push for sanctions on companies found to be intentionally or willingly employing illegals? My family is from Apple Country (now Wine Country) in Washington State and entire Warehouses and Orchards were staffed by illegals. The threat of sanctions would kill that.
I'm in the kind of business where hiring illegals is commonplace. There's probably other schemes but the way most of them, at least the big ones, do business is:
1. Owner/manager of large business that needs cheap labor finds a legal Mexican who can speak English and do whatever work they need done
2. They don't tell him what to do but they send him to their lawyer who explains the game, the lawyer helps him set up an LLC
3. LLC hires X number of illegals (I want to say 15 is the sweet spot)
4. Original large business awards contracts to original legal Mexican's new company, plus a $15,000 'bonus' for their first job
5. Lawyer holds on to the $15,000. When/if LLC gets busted for illegal labor the fine gets paid to make the problem go away, LLC dissolves, new LLC with all the same people pops up next week
For smaller companies they probably don't bother with the $15,000 thing and just let the legal Mexican eat the fine/consequences, if their lawyer isn't retarded it's basically impossible to track any infractions back to them
Under a government that doesn't give a shit about illegals this works extremely well because you basically never have to pay that fine. I don't know how it will change under Trump. I can't imagine the legal consequences will make it too far up the food chain just because of how easy it is to insulate yourself as a business owner but if they're actually aggressively hunting down offenders, deporting the illegals the LLC hires, and punishing the LLC owners beyond a fine that gets paid by someone else I don't see that being cheaper than just hiring someone at a reasonable wage for too long