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I still can’t believe how many intelligent people cannot comprehend the scope of the immigration issue. If employers are provided with an adequate system to screen employees including biometric ID cards and then (and only then) illegal employers are cracked down on hard, all the walls, money and people necessary to secure the border will be GREATLY REDUCED. If they can’t get employed, then won’t come. Guest worker program - fine - but again only through embassies and with biometric ID.

In terms of citizenship - I would much rather accept larger numbers of hard working predominantly Catholic, hardworking people than wind up with the immigration issues of the UK and France!! No free pass, but a fair orderly process. That being the case, I think the political model could become much more like the Cuban population is Florida - predominantly republican. If all they know and all they hear is that democrats try to protect and safeguard them and republicans oppose them, then what do you think the initial tendency will be? Do any of you know very many 2nd or 3rd generation Mexican families that are not successful? Once successful, you really think they will be democrats? Did they just elect Calderon or Obrador?

Enough unthinking gut reactions people - try using a little reasoning. I’m as conservative as they get, but I also own a business with 65 employees and the system, as it is now, is not at all fair to the small business who does follow the letter of the law. Out of every 100 applications we get, only 2 or 3 are legal - we need to spend money and time to find this out. We need to compete with companies who do utilize illegal help - again not fair at all. Yet we are targeted by racist people who assume that since we have over half of our employees being Hispanic, that we hire illegals. This is simply racist hate-mongering as every single employee we hire is carefully screened and is either a US citizen or is here with a work visa.

Many people who haven’t dealt with this type of bigotry cannot comprehend it, but it exists and is certainly not representative of this great country of ours. We have and always will welcome immigrants. We have hundreds of thousands of open jobs just in the Southwest. We can’t keep raising wages to attract employees when the system allows others to utilize illegal help - the screening/ID issue is the single biggest issue for all immigration/border issues. If people can be positively ID’ed and screened then the illegal employers can be hit and hit hard. If there aren’t jobs for undocumented people - there won’t be undocumented people - simple supply and demand!!

Too many of you are way to narrow-minded in your perception, consider the overall issue here.