Originally Posted by thesaints
In truth, if you are H1-B (allowed to work only for the petitioning employer), checks are very strict. For instance, there is no way you could continue to work, even for a single day after the visa expires.
These are well paid jobs and, no surprise, nobody wants to give them away so easily.
If you instead pick tomatoes, nobody cares. Big business will want you to stay, so they can get cheap labour. Some so called liberals also will want you to stay (as an illegal, of course) since they need somebody cheap to mow their lawns or care for their infant children.
In the end, the only fair way, for both Americans and immigrants, is a very strict control of legal residency and an efficient immigration bureaucracy.
Then we have all the workers we need and everybody will have full rights and pay taxes.
Oh please do not confuse what the law says with reality and expect us to believe that no H1B visa holder has ever had a second job under the table or overstayed. The attempt to muddy the waters by comparing a legally present
non immigrant with an illegal or legal
immigrant is disingenuous to say the least.
The point of this thread is not legal/illegal immigration it is what happens to someone who wishes to fly domestically within the US if they are unable to show proof of legal staus.