In an effort to crack down on illegal labor, the Department of Homeland Security intends to step up enforcement efforts against employers who knowingly hire such workers.
Under guidelines to be issued Thursday to Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices, agents will be instructed to take aim at employers and supervisors for prosecution “through the use of carefully planned criminal investigations.” (cont.)

It's about time that someone in Washington decided to get after this problem at it's core.
Pink Slip
Exactly. It's a no brainer to see that to stop a crime, you should go where the crimes are committed first.
I don't think this will last, however. In our society, money wins, and the money in this situation is on the side of the capitalist scum who hire illegal aliens.