Originally posted by TJSwoboda:
If we're to continue restricting immigration, why don't we go after the employers who use illegal immigrants for their cheap labor? Ah, maybe because our ECONOMY IS DEPENDING ON THEM!

They may be sending a good chunk of their money to their families, but they're still contributing to the economy here: First by being employed (as apple pickers and similar menial jobs that few U.S. citizens want), and also by buying food/necessities and perhaps very minor luxuries, even a used car if they can afford it and are sticking around for a while.

I'm against the current half-assed way of handing the situation, which looks to only get worse: Treating undocumented immigrants as sort-of-legal, sort-of-not-legal. Don't issue drivers' licenses to illegal aliens, just cut the bulls*** and open the border.

--T.J., for fiscal conservatism and social liberalism



You sure can tell who lives along the border and who lives a comfortable buffer zone away.