[capt. norm]

I personally have strenuous objections to the government putting the burden on employers, wanting them to become INS agents. It's a cop out by the Federal government. It's their job to enforce immigration laws, starting at the border.

They are the very ones that are making a monetary profit using illegal aliens and they have been sliding all this time, and, for some reason, you want them to be blameless?

Please fill me in on where my thinking is wrong on this.

[FairOpinion]

Say you have a stawberry crop that needs picking. If you don't pick it in time, it goes to waste. You can't get US citizens to pick it, so what do you do?

Or do you want to pay $100 per ounce for strawberries -- that's what would happen if you have to hire people, pay them $50/hr, because they wouldn't go out in the sun to pick the strawberries otherwise, then pay them vacation, medical insurance, holdidays, etc.

The answer is to stop illegals coming across the border, but furnish a legal means, i.e. guest worker program, to track people coming into this country, but still provide the labor pool needed.