>>>>If Congress sticks with its current stalemate and the legislation stalls, the issue will go into cold storage for two or four years — i.e., between now and next two national elections. If the marchers succeed in pressuring Congress to revive the bill, however, then we are all in for a long hot political summer.
Lets hope this issue doesn't go into "cold storage". Lets have it settled NOW! Either we control our borders, enforce employer sanctions and stop allowing illegal aliens to undermine our employment system and welfare process, or we grant them all amnesty and move on towards the end of America as we've know it.
This is a thorny one -- the matching up of illegals and employers is an example of the free market at work. Is your point that business owners should only hire government-approved employees?
I'd argue that this facet of illegal immigration is an unintended consequence of our welfare system -- employers need cheap labor for grunt work; Americans can do better on welfare than they can doing hard physical labor; and so Americans turn to a labor source that meets their needs at a price they want to pay. (And I'll guess that the price required to lure Americans into those jobs would be significantly higher than the welfare they're currently collecting.)
Is it really illegal immigration that undermines the employment system, or is it something else?