Getting back to having actual discussions like the old days here....
So this past week saw the first days of "the crackdown" on illegal immigrants to the US. A whopping 1100 (out of what, 20-something-million?)..... well, it's a start.
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from the New York Times dated April 21
"In its first days, the crackdown resulted in the detention of more than 1,100 illegal immigrants in 26 states and the arrest of seven managers and former managers of a pallet supply company, bringing praise from groups favoring stricter enforcement of immigration laws but prompting dread and resentment among immigrant workers and some employers."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/us...=th&oref=login
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Where do you stand on this issue? Should the US gov't round them all up and ship them back to Mexico? Heavily fine all employers who hire these people? Or should they leave it alone and get over it?
What about this private group who is planning to put up a wall to keep them out? Some are comparing "the wall" to another wall, one that needed to come down in the name of freedom. I'm not sure I see a comparison there, but I'm interested in your take.
Then there's the issue of what to do to offending employers:
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"Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for the immigration enforcement agency, said that the crackdown was aimed at employers who "egregiously and specifically violate the law," and that the agency believed most employers "do want to follow the law and be in compliance."
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Problem being, how are employers able at present to check the status of job applicants? I wonder how in this day and age where they can target a cruise missile to hit a garage door from 300 miles away that they don't have a system in place where employers can log in with some sort of member ID and check to see if someone is in fact a US citizen or not.
And lastly, the border patrols are going have something to say about putting up a fence that will ultimately prevent illegals from stealing over the border in the night.
It's going to seriously cut into their little side sex trade they've been enjoying for decades...
No one in the media seems to want to address this, so I will...
Deleting illegal immigration will also delete one major job perk for those guys.