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Originally Posted by valkyrie
Can anybody provide a compelling reason why landlords should have a role in enforcing U.S. immigration laws? RC kind of touched on this, but I'm not convinced. Isn't this a case of the government being too lazy/incompetent to do its job and enforce its laws -- or, in the alternative, a futile attempt to do the impossible?
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Government does things like this all the time. For example, employers have to help enforce the tax and social security laws by withholding employee contributions from paychecks and remitting them to the IRS. Merchants have to collect and remit sales taxes, even though the merchants are not the ones paying the sales taxes. It's not a matter of laziness or incompetence; it's a matter of allocation of resources and of who is in the best position to ensure compliance with the laws.