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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!


Bingo! They wouldn't risk what they do if they didn't have a job to go to. It's like the so-called drug problem - reduce the demand and the supply will automatically dry up.

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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.


Don't dismiss a "half-assed" approach out of hand - there are a lot of countries that allow itinerant labor into the country for short periods - usually associated with a picking season, for example.

They're legal, they pay taxes, the employer gets his crop picked (or whatever), the worker sends money home and then happily goes home when he's done because he know's there's no risk to crossing the border.

Do this and the INS and other agencies tasked with making the border safer will free up much needed funds - you don't need high-priced security people chasing some poor schlub looking to put food on the table.