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Originally Posted by White Rabbit
I repeat, if you want to solve illegal immigration, slap a $10,000 fine per offense upon any corporation or private citizen that hires one.
But no one is going to pass that kind of law because corporations and private citizens like their low-wage illegal laborers too much.
For anyone curious, the illegality of immigrants is a feature, not a bug. It is the policy to have illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants work for sub-standard wages and have no rights. That's why they are so popular with corporate employers and wealthy people (who use them as nannies, maids and gardeners).
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I cannot find a word here with which I could disagree. As I have said previously, there is an unholy alliance here between the transnational left and the Big Business right. One believes passionately that national borders are a silly construct, and that the wealthier nations have a moral obligation to support the residents of economic-basket-case nations; whereas the other believes fervently that a better-than-expected quarterly report is the highest of all possible values, irrespective of how it might have been achieved.
And that is a hugely depressing state of affairs.
Note: There may be a small ray of hope. I believe Arizona passed a law earlier this year, that will go into effect on January 1, 2008, that will suspend the business license, for one week, of anyone found guilty of employing illegals. A second offense, it is my understanding, will result in a
permanent loss of the business license.