[neverdem]

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[supercat]

There should be an easy and practical procedure to allow through enough of the right sort of immigrants to meet this country's needs. Right now, it seems that INS/ICE tries to make things as annoying as possible for those who try to do things legally, that people won't mind if they start ignoring the rules for those who don't.

I subscribe to the paperwork theory. The INS/ICE hate paperwork.

If someone gets caught, deporting them requires paperwork; letting them go requires none.

If someone wants to become a citizen that requires lots of paperwork. If they want to become an illegal alien, that requires none.

I wish there were some way to make the people at INS/ICE actually do their jobs. But I think they'd rather avoid paperwork.

[kinoxi]

I was going to comment. I was under the impression that I was only required to read one article though.

[seasoned traditionalist]

What is there to "rethink?"

W practically had an orgasm when that reporter reminded him of his pet project which he could now get passed seeing those pesky Conservative were no longer going to be able to obstruct him in the House.

May that SOB CHIEF RINO (who I voted for twice) rot in hell.

I HOPE THAT THE RATS DO IMPEACH HIM---HE DESERVES IT.

[Tzimisce]

Now with a new Democratic congress, Bush can finally get his Amnesty act passed. :)

Thank you for voting Democrat. :)

(/sarcasm)

[Sefton]

Anyone want to think about this... a couple weeks ago I found out the labor rate in Tijuana is $2.00 per hour including benefits. $1.00 take home.

[TheLion]

Ping!

[TigersEye]

Now that the elections are over I will no longer hold my tongue in order to help "the party." No amnesty. No faux amnesty. No non-amnesty amnesty.

Deport. Arrest the employers. Close the borders.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Mexicans do not have to worry. The only actions Americans are capable of are: "Debate," "Discussion," "Dialogue," and "The Expression of Different Points of View!" Western Civilization will be the only civilization in history that talked itself to death. Not even one shot, only words, followed by perpetual service for those Americans that remain alive after the sack.

[gubamyster]

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[A. Pole]

employers plead that without cheap foreign labor they would not be able to find enough American workers to maintain the surging American economy
[...]
Areas in the United States that have experienced far less illegal immigration seem to have no insurmountable problems in manning restaurants, cutting lawns or serving the needs of hotel guests. Travel to the Midwest, for example, and you'll see that students are employed as cooks and maids. Construction relies on legal laborers.

"Cheap" labor bump

[hedgetrimmer]

Gosh, its like Al Gore, when he was 'rethinking government' and look what harm it did to the American people.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The ultimate - and more challenging - solution to a shortage of laborers may not be illegal immigration or even guest workers, but higher wages, a change in entitlement eligibility laws or a return to our own former positive attitudes about hard, physical work.

"higher wages" - the quaint notion that supply and demand applies to labor?

How odd. Though I seem to recall an econ course I took almost fifty years ago -- supply and demand principles did apply to labor. I know, I know. I'll see if I can find the textbook.

Thank goodness we've advanced into globalism and a worldwide glut of labor -- and it's so cheap! Not only in terms of labor but that old-fashioned sovereignty thingy -- and who needs that "nation of laws not men" stuff?

[rrrod]

My 2 cents...Small biz is booming with illegal workers but we only hear about the BIG bust such as Swift. It's past time to seal the border and deport. This should have happened years ago. Something needs to be done NOW!