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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (102723)2/1/2009 12:37:26 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (2) of 543802
 
Certainly there are analogs between the drug business and illegal labor. They both are customarily used by a large portion of the population in opposition to an ineffective set of laws that attempts to regulate and criminalize it. There are larger issues -the economics favor illegals to come here.

As long as individuals hire the illegals to do work (knowingly) to save 20 to 60%, the problem will continue. As long as businesses hire contractors with "Don't ask, don't tell" it will be a problem. As long as the Catholic Church and local custom insists on no birth control, being concerned more with "being fruitful and multiplying" than standard of living, the root causes of high population and poverty, the supply of semi-skilled labor will be unlimited.

IMO the ONLY solution to illegals is to make things so good at home that they don't want to leave. Are American's willing to have an economy that is so sh_tty that Mexicans refuse to work here? Well those that "hate illegals" may be getting their wish. Hopefully it won't get so bad that I and everyone else turns around and tries to work illegally in Mexico. We'd have a harder time because THEY are not easy on illegal immigrants or businesses that hire them. We wouldn't be able to own anything there. Our children would never become citizens.

It made me furious when Jose Lopez Portillo said he liked to think of the U.S. as a "Safety Valve" for Mexico's excess population. WTF?! Talk about ignoring a problem. We aren't getting the best and brightest, we're getting people who can't make it in their home country and are willing to do the riskiest and most difficult work here for more money.
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