Which means this is much ado about nothing. It is ALREADY against the law to hire illegals. Arggggh!
Which means this is much ado about nothing. It is ALREADY against the law to hire illegals. Arggggh!
I said: enforcement, not legal scribbles. A million laws unenforced mean nothing. Of course I get your point; why not just enforce in the first place.
Problem is I have yet to hear a workable plan to defend the border. Our own State Department can't smile on a plan to let Israel build a wall against overt terrorists; how far do you think a plan to do likewise to our own border to stop illegals would get? Short of taking over Mexico ourselves so as to shorten our southern border to a managable size, the border is too large, people are going to stream across.
This worker program lessens the pressure to go illegally by providing a legal method. IMO it must be balanced by reforms in services to illegals. I'm not a legal scholar, but it seems to me something like this provides an incentives for Governors of states bordering Mexico to deny welfare and other benefits to illegals, since there is a program for legal work in place. If those moves follow then the pressure is also lessened because the monetary incentive to cross illegally is reduced.
All in all I have not made up my mind to hate or to love this proposal. My political sense tells me I shouldn't bother as it'll not pass this year. If the political strateg(er)y is right, the House passes something the Senate Dems and Rinos can't stand, and what's left is no bill but "Democrats are against Hispanics" as a campaign issue.