>>>”No need to deport them. Make (and enforce) sufficiently onerous penalties against employers and landlords of illegals and they’ll deport themselves virtually overnight.”
>>That solution seems obvious to me, why is there so little support for this approach in Washington?
Two words - Dow 13,000.
Free trade and open borders appear to be good for corporate America.
There ya go! Darn right it's been good for a few while the middle class and the poor AMERICAN CITIZENS have to compete with slave wages/illegal entry employees/illegal labor.
Just like any elitist says, " I hate the poor!"
Real wages for those on the bottom scale of society (everyone can't be an investor!)has steadily fallen for the last 5 years.
Pretty sad actually, that your 'great' economy can only survive on illegality!
You should have watched the Lou Dobbs special last night. You could learn a thing or two.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/02/ldt.02.html
And the fact that economics indicate that we have a surplus of labor, rather than a deficit, is something we have to pay attention to. Is it determinate on the issue? No. But it's part of the facts that we all have to come together on and deal with honestly.
The four industries in which illegal aliens constitute the predominant employment are leisure and hospitality, restaurants and hotels, landscaping, and construction. And, in those four industries, wages have declined for the past four years.
GRAYSON: They got 400 applications, and they hired 200 Americans, most of whom were African-Americans. They were quite willing to take the job, provided that there was safety in the workplace and there were decent wages and there was job protection.
DOBBS: These darn American citizens. They want things like worker safety. They want absolute rules in the workplace, and they want to be paid a living wage.