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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (231170)4/30/2005 3:41:19 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1575984
 
re: I don't think that will help much. The majority of illegals in CA work for small private firms or private persons like you or I. They rarely stay in one job very long. Its also very common to see tons of illegals standing outside a Home Depot or a paint store looking for work. The only commonality with all these different groups is that they all have to cross the border. Its better to get them there.

Totally disagree. You take a few individuals, a few corporate farm owners, a few manufacturing companies, and throw the head guy in jail for six months, and fine him a couple of hundred grand. It won't take long to change the whole thing.

It doesn't work. In the mid 90s, the big CA firms that were hiring illegals were fined big time. Clinton really beefed up INS. The big firms stopped hiring them and moved their manu. operations to central America or S.E Asia. More illegals were hired by private parties and small firms.........much harder to enforce the laws.

Then the overflow went to other states looking for cheap labor. Starting in the mid to late 90s, states like Arkansas, Illinois, Georgia, Iowa began to see a much larger influx of illegals. They worked in the meatpacking factories in Iowa, the chicken processing plants in Arkansas....whatever manufacturers required unskilled, cheap labor. By that time, the feds were giving up and stopped enforcing the laws.

IMO the only effective enforcement is to stop them at the border.........and soon. The problem is growing geometrically each year.

ted
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