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W's immigration proposal

On the one hand, it's not good that there are millions of workers here illegally. As you may know from reading my blogs, I am opposed to laws that are broken by millions. Yet it has NOT been made clear to me at all why we can't prevent people from crossing the Mexican border illegally. For a fraction of the costs of our war in Iraq, I'm sure we can put up an effective fence and make sure it's patrolled by.

The story that businesses can only hire foreign workers if no American's want the job is just a fiction, because there would be an American who would want the job if the salary was increased enough.

I also assume that any babies born here by guest workers would automatically be American citizens, so like it or not, this new law is going to create a huge number of new American citizens.

So after thinking about this law some more, I think it's bad idea. It also seems to me that W is trying to pander to the Hispanic vote. It further seems likely to me that W is going to lose the next election, but that's the topic of a future blog entry.

posted Thursday, January 08, 2004