[freedumb2003]

FR are more interested in knee jerk slogans and calling people who grow food, build things, and create wealth

In your wierd, alternate universe. The adverse effect on the infrastructure,schools, hospitals, roads far outwrights the "wealth" they create. For example, IIRC one study (they quoted it on John & Ken) showed labor was 5 cents on an average head of lettuce.

By driving down wages or forcing those that follow hiring laws out of business they create a perpetual underclass that takes much, much more than it gives.

Immigration enforcement is 1/2 of the solution. We need to see employers do hard prison time. Then watch the immigration slow down to a crawl.

The MMP was a great idea also -- we need it across the entire southern border.

[A. Pole]

We need to see employers do hard prison time. Then watch the immigration slow down to a crawl.

Much gentler measures would do the job. What about making employers liable for underpaying the illegal workers and for the school/medical costs?

One could make the just amnesty - you report to the immigration and you get the green card plus nice compensation and bonus with employer reimbursing the state?

The illegal immigration would stop even faster!