[Spiff]

If all we do is make it impossible for businesses that currently depend on employing illegals to continue to do so, they will be forced to (a) go out of business (b) move overseas or (c) if it is the kind of business that cannot be replaced by overseas competitors (restaurants), raise their prices enormously and thus shrink their business. As for rounding up and holding 8,000,000+ illegals, we lack the manpower and the prison space. Restoring the military draft so we can build prison camps all across the Southwest in order to protect ourselves from gardeners, maids, and other low wage workers strikes me as a poor use of scarce resources during wartime.

Hey, what other laws should we just give up on because enforcement is too nasty or politically uncomfortable? Let's legalize drugs, prostitution, etc. We should not look for tax evaders or cheaters because we don't have the resources to investigate the millions of cheaters or to enforce the law against those we catch. We should eliminate all other laws against unfair business practices while we're at it.

The rest of your post is crap (well all of it, actually). We would not need a draft, prison camps, etc. to enforce the current immigration laws.

[FredTownWard]

Hey, what other laws should we just give up on because enforcement is too nasty or politically uncomfortable? Let's legalize drugs, prostitution, etc. We should not look for tax evaders or cheaters because we don't have the resources to investigate the millions of cheaters or to enforce the law against those we catch. We should eliminate all other laws against unfair business practices while we're at it.

I know that you are trying to be sarcastic here, Spiff, but if you have a law that cannot be enforced, it is in many cases better to change it than to mindlessly continue on as usual. Lots of people drank illegally under Prohibition. Should the Repeal of Prohibition have been delayed until every illegal drinker and supplier had been hunted down and punished?


We would not need a draft, prison camps, etc. to enforce the current immigration laws.

Considering how many US troops we have currently occupied in hunting down a few thousand people in Afghanistan and Iraq, I think you are wrong about the ease of rounding up a group of people that would if memory serves outnumber our entire current military force.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Hey, what other laws should we just give up on because enforcement is too nasty or politically uncomfortable?

Lets start with income tax and enviromental laws and regulations and work our way down.