>Legalize 11 million? Hmmmmm, I wonder if I show up in England, France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, or Italy, et al. if they would legalize me if I stayed long enough.... How about 11 million me's?
But you forget that they have (better) control of their borders.
And I'd bet you that most of them would at least give you a hearing. And you could probably work while waiting for the hearing, as well as get medical services and schooling for your kids.
I'd like to know how the U.S. could do anything else but legalize the huge portion of those 11 million people. Send them home but leave their kids behind? Send them home and their American citizen kids too? Send them all to Mexico and let Mexico sort out who belongs where?
In the end, anyway, it still comes down to BUSINESS and their maximizing their profits. They want to continue offering below minimum wage. They want to continue to avoid the paper work involved with "real" employees, fulltime or parttime. They would be in a bind if they didn't have something to hang over the heads of their (illegal) workers.
This really is just like the drug trade - supply and DEMAND. As long as business can get cheap tightly-controllable labour, almost like they have legally in China, there will be demand. Cut off the demand and the problem effectively goes away.
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>>>>No, this is the solution:
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/09/MNGOKB837T1.DTL>>>>
>>>>Note the date on the article. Somehow, repeating the same game (promise - no, not promise, make it a law - to deploy 10,000 guys along the border, then give money for about 210 of them) seems to be a good solution.
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>>>You seem to be criticizing his solution, rather than offering an alternative. Am I mistaken?
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>>Why should I have anything new to say? He's already repeating the last year's thing.
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>>I've already written about a possible solution: legalize those who are already in (a seven year minimum was proposed somewhere, OK by me), have them pay some fees to INS for that, have INS be as efficient as it once was, and give the rest a choice to leave. And, ah, yes, start applying the laws to employers.
