Well, there was a big prime time speach about nothing. More National Guard window dressing at the border, just long enough to try and get an immigration bill passed.
The issue as I see it is a classic supply and demand problem. Business wants as much cheap labor as it can get, and the supply is streaming accross the border because cheap to us is good money to them.
You want to fix it? Take the dough you'd spend building a bigger wall and use it to hold businesses accountable and enforce the hiring laws. Yeah, you'll pay .18 cents more for a head of lettuce, and may have a tougher time finding someone to clean your house, but at least we'd start making some real progress on this issue.
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-UF
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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