Certainly there's room for improvement to enforce existing laws like you said.
However, as long as there's demand for cheap labor, the market will provide it. So the bulk of 20 Million Mexicans laborers are here to stay, even if we are stringent with our laws.
Honestly, I think it's a waste of time to try to disagree with President Bush on this amnesty or "shamnesty" like you would call it.
The best we can do is to build an Israeli-style Wall of America on the border and leave it at that.
We should focus all our energy on that.
Not if the penalties for hiring an illegal are prison time. Those jobs would dry up overnight if a few plant managers and CEOs being handcuffed and walked to the back of a police car where shown on the news.
I agree.
"Honestly, I think it's a waste of time to try to disagree with President Bush on this amnesty or "shamnesty" like you would call it."
Again I agree that the President has made up his mind regardless of our wishes, but I think we should at lleast try to stop this mess.
"The best we can do is to build an Israeli-style Wall of America on the border and leave it at that."
I could not agree more.
What happens when those “cheap laborers” are made citizens with the President’s signature? Then they are no longer “cheap labor” - they are minimum wage citizens.
Is that why we have to have an additional 400,000 each year - for cheap labor?
I work in a church benevolence room and today we had 4 brand new immigrants show up - probably just coming over the border.
I would imagine that the borders are flooding with all trying to get the whole clans in here before the bill is passed.
What I resent is that the government allows the cheap labor to come, none of the families are able to exist on that salary with 6 children, so the churches have to provide food to feed them.
To me this is pushing the cost of labor onto the members of churches in our society and on to the taxpayer by draining the entitlement programs. Cheap labor? For who? Only the employers - not the taxpayer, not the churches.
And we full well know that the purpose of this is to allow the democrats and probably the hopeful republicans to buy votes.
” However, as long as there’s demand for cheap labor, the market will provide it. So the bulk of 20 Million Mexicans laborers are here to stay, even if we are stringent with our laws. “
I’d like to point out your error in logic.
Think about Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, Adelphia, Global Crossing.
Jail time, bankruptcy, and public ridicule.
You’re saying that method won’t work for these current illegal activities? You’ll have to explain yourself. As it stands, you just sound like an open-borders thrall.