[inquest]

You seem to think that given a legal and an illegal option, people will always choose the legal option.

No, again you misread me. The "always" is your insertion.

I said that if government turns up the heat enough, it will start to push more people into the legal channels, and that will have a positive-feedback effect.

[speekinout]

I said that if government turns up the heat enough, it will start to push more people into the legal channels, and that will have a positive-feedback effect.

I think we agree on that. But I think the gov't has to turn up the heat on the employers, and you think it's enough to turn it up on the illegals. Is that close?