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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
...it might be a good idea to make it a crime. Actually, I'd say that hiring or employing illegals should be the crime with the greatest penalty. But that isn't anything that could work if done immediately. If our feckless Congress suddenly passed such a bill, there wouldn't be enough Immigration officers to chase the millions of illegals already here, not enough jail cells to house them all, or not enough airplanes to fly them all back home.
And I won't mention what would happen to segments of our economy and sections of the country that would suffer terrific hits. No people to pick the crops, to work in hot kitchens, work in home construction (particularly in right-to-work states like Florida), do landscaping and lawn maintenance, etc., etc.
Now don't tell me that these people are displacing unemployed Americans. Americans simply won't work that hard for the amount they are paid. (I just had a major landscaping job done and eight Mexican workers got more done in a day and a half than any other group I had ever seen. Before that I had pavers put on a driveway by six Brazilian workers. Not a word of English among them and they worked for the better part of a day bent over, lifting heavy stones and mixing concrete. Older American workers couldn't do that physical work. Younger ones simply wouldn't work that hard.)
But if illegal immigration was made a crime over a period of time, over 5-6-7 years, so employers could prepare for an alternative work force and the illegals could prepare to go home....now that might work.
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VK Actually it has been argued that many of the jobs being taken by illegals would be taken by Americans except that both illegal and thier employers have placed downward pressure on wages. Thus if emploers were not allowed to hire illegals the wage scale would rise. Now this does create another set of problems. Employers hire illegals because they don't have to contend as much with working conditions, etc. Just look at what happened in Iowa.
The two largest increase in population have been Hispanic and Asian. Guess which group came here legally? Guess which group have within their group is primarily Mexican. Do they all pay taxes? do they all gain benefit of schools, social services, etc.
some Americans seem to believe that they are taking the high road with support of illegal immigration. Us low brows want these folks to come here in the same manner has our fore-fathers and those folks who now desire to enter legally. finally how do we remain a country "united" if too many of us are sneaking across the border.
There is only one reason why we can't bring illegal immgration under control. Its call the will to do so...but then that might mean that as a pol someone would get mad at me and would vote for me....OMG!