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What the government could do to create a lot of new jobs for Americans is to start going after the illegal employers --- fine them big like they fine OSHA and IRS violaters. Many of the illegal employers are committing a multitude of crimes --- avoiding minimum wage laws, not paying into Social Security, Workman's Comp, not following OSHA regulations, IRS, and breaking many labor laws in addition to hiring illegals. Fine them right out of business --- that will open a lot of wonderful work opportunities to those employers and contractors who obey the law, they will need to hire Americans for all the new work they've got.

I agree with ya completly my friend, but the fact of the matter is that being a politican is dancing to the tune of a drum and the drum is played by those that make a difference in the local enconomies and a lot of those employers who benefit from illegals are the ones that are beating the drums of local employers. In a perfect world, we would not have dead people voting, felons voting, illegals voting but say something against it and you are considered racist and bigoted and a vast majority of the country's opinion is shaped by these one liners. But having said that, change has to come from the local level and grassrots up in terms of illegal immigration, and I am on a contrian view here that what Bush has proposed has a lot of merit but it only serves to address the problem (which has been ignored by a majority of the american populatin) and not solve it. I agree with sarcasm's point also that local laws need to be enforced and maybe that should be one of the keypoints of Bush's immigration proposal.