You have no idea what your accusing. I have worked plenty in the farms and had plenty of blisters, cuts and bruises for below minimum wage, so what? These are entry level jobs and we have a shortage of entry level workers. That is how many of us made it through college.
If you have a solution besides emptying the prisons I am all ears. The fact is there are labor intensive industries that need these workers and nobody wants to truly address that issue because it is too hard. It is much easier to say load up the cattle cars and ship them back then to really solve this problem.
You ready to ship back a family that has worked hard for 10 years and leads a clean life as a carpenter or roofer or on a farm simply because he crossed the border years ago?
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I propose that we utilize economic, and if necessary, military measures to cause Mexico to quit emptying THEIR prisons into the USA. I never have called for mass deportation. I have called for enforced registration and tracking of alien students, visitors, and laborers. I do call for the deportation of those resident aliens that commit a criminal offense. Not those that commit an administrative error in the current guest worker program (including NAFTA visas). I am not calling for flinging the prison doors open. I am calling for "insourcing" labor to keep the revenue inside of the US, and lowering the taxes on non-offenders. I know, that is a radically conservative notion to have prison farms and manufacturing while offenders learn to work and contribute to society while lowering the tax burden by having non-productive human beings (that are US citizens) become productive. On top of my call for the military overthrow of the Mexican government. And this time we should take the rest of the land. The northern territories that we got last time worked out pretty well. After all, without the New Mexico proving grounds, we never could have nuked Japan. Twice.