[RKV]

Employers have specific legal responsibilities - if they suspect document fraud the police or immigration should be called. If someone gave you a bogus $100 bill you would call the police on them wouldn't you? And don't say I am being unrealistic - I married into a family that owned several vineyards in Fresno so I know the details on phony green cards first hand. It will take a number of policy changes (like requiring police to arrest and charge illegals when they find them) to make this work. Ending welfare as we know it would be another step in the right direction on the supply side, too. What this is really about is that farmers want cheap labor, and the politicians want farmers campaign contributions. Meanwhile the rest of us pay the costs that farmers don't.

[rey]

"Meanwhile the rest of us pay the costs that farmers don't"

One way or the other, yes. I'm happy to sell you a $40 hamburger. I think our politicians behave the way they do for economic reasons; we spend about 9% of our income on food (third world nations average about 60%). To upset this balance will cause us to spend more on subsistence and less on the other junk that drives our economy (read depression like conditions). Bad politically speaking as most people have no problem spending the balance of their income on frivolous entertainment. This is also why freenig trade is important to the politicians, let the thrid world feed us, keep the illegals at home, free farm land up for open space, control property more, etc.

What bothers me is I consider our self reliance on food a BIG national security issue. We get weird when oil is threatened, imagine the food supply threatened.