[GarySpFc]

Our nonexistant immigration law enforcement is the result of one thing and one thing only; the greed of businessmen who continue to hire these people to undercut the market wage for labor here in the US.

I am married to an immigrant lady who will take her naturalization test March 8, and so I am very familiar with the process. Believe me when I say our immigration laws are not nonexistent. That said, the laws do seem to apply only for those seeking to immigrate legally. My wife had to pay $90 for be fingerprinted 3 times, and that does not include the hundreds and hundreds of dollars we spent in other fees. Once she had to return to the INS office five times to answer one silly question. The guards at the office kept laughing over this, and actually got to know us on a first name basis.

[azhenfud]

I know what you mean. Yet the observance and respect of law exists among the legal of societies only.

Criminals will not obey law no matter how severe its wording because without substantial penalty as a deterrant, those laws are worthless.

[JFK_Lib]

Very true.

I mean that our immigration laws are so laxly enforced, that it is much easier to not obey them, and ignore them, than it is to work in complaince with them.

Plus the illegal status gives one an actual edge with possible employment, much like H1-B visa holders, who is viewed as essentially indentured servants.