The truth, of course, is that the government doesn't want to do anything about it — and for good reason.
Our somewhat lax and paradoxical border policy is driven by something very basic: money and economics.
Another know-it-all who does not listen well. We talk all the time about economics and sending criminals like him to jail for using ILLEGAL alien labor. Taxpayer subsidized ILLEGAL labor, that is.
The big fuss [i.e., Prop 187, I guess] quietly went away and nothing much changed in California.
The know-it-all is wrong again. Strike two. The recall of the man who killed Prop 187 with his "mediation," Gov. Davis, lost his job due largely to his betrayal of the sixty percent of the voters who voted for Prop 187 in 1994.
Are Americans willing to pay $4 instead of $1 for a head of lettuce?
The man is an idiot*. Strike three and kicked off the team.
Or.. is he being facetious?
* Ag experts say the cost would increase by about five to ten percent. One is Agricultural economist Philip Martin of UC Davis, I believe is his school.
I quite agree. I was not impressed with the easy dismissal of Prop 187. In fact a judge vacated the proposition that was passed by over two thirds of the voters. It was considerably later that the gov dropped the legal appeal and let the matter go away. (The people should never have elected him if they wanted the lawsuit to continue.)
What occurred as a result was that California's hispanics got better organized joined the democrat side, and with the proposition as proof that the gringos were against them they changed the landscape of the state to what it is today. A very blue state. With elections close everywhere the GOP cannot afford to piss of a voting bloc like this proposition did. So this is the reason the GOP is going light on illegal immigration. (Even though lots of hispanics who are here legally realize that the illegals give everyone a bad name).
As for the crop picking - low labor cost being a real benefit to the state. I believe the figures are not there. The state loses much more than the benefits it gets when failing schools and higher crime rates and police costs are included. Of course many schools would have to be closed if the hispanic students were suddenly not there. And this is why the teachers union is in favor of this influx even if it makes it difficult to run classrooms sometimes.