Posted on 05/01/2006 7:10:20 AM PDT by Keyes2000mt
May 1st is slated as a day when illegal aliens will walk off their jobs and take to the streets to illustrate how much our cities depend on cheap illegal labor. If the federal government is serious about enforcing the law, May 2nd should set a record for illegal immigrants being rounded up.
Here's what I mean. Suppose a news story tells you that local grocery stores are shut down due to a lack of illegal labor. If you're a federal immigration agent, its pretty easy to deduce that these grocery stores have a few illegals on staff, and to go and start questioning workers. No, this won't happen on May 2nd, but it should. That it doesn't shows how the Administration has chosen to ignore the law and abrogate its responsibility in enforcing it.
What May 1st will tell us is interesting as well. We've been told all along that illegals are taking jobs Americans won't do. If Bus lines are shut down, factories stop producing goods, and Construction projects don't move forward, then the favorite war horse of the open borders crowd has to be called into question. Since when do Americans have no interest in being bus drivers, or working in construction, or factories? In general, they pay far better than minimum wage or what employees earn at Walmart or Target.
Now, to be fair some legal immigrants, Muslims, and general liberal agitators are taking the day off as well. However, if we see a lot of jobs that Americans can and will do sitting vacant this will backfire big time on the illegal immigration crowd.
If I was in charge I could solve this problem myself.
Arrest and jail the largest employers of illegal aliens first. Fine them heavily and give them some jail time.
Cut off all benefits to the illegals. No schooling, no medical care, no welfare, no nothing.
Then go after the lesser employers of illegals if there are any left.
End of problem in two months. The illegals would flee back across the border because no one would employ them and they would have no benefits and no standing in this country.
But give a few hundred thousand of them green cards to work as migrant farm workers, the only jobs they would be permitted to do here.
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