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To: epicure who wrote (5530)	1/9/2004 4:12:33 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I suppose that might depend on how badly the U.S. really wants to stop the use of underpaid illegal workers. If the country is serious about the problem of illegal migrant workers, then it should be going after those who employ them instead of playing its ridiculous game of cowboys and indians down near the border. At the present time, you have a system which is lenient with illegal worker migration during peak crop season (which, btw, will begin to ramp up across much of the U.S. in the next couple of months). But by the same token, the system cracks down and boots the same people back over the border as soon as the harvest starts winding down, or if the tourist season gets slow in the case of hospitality industry. Has anyone been discussing how they'll kick all of these "guest workers" back out of the country come...is it November or so when the grape season and much of the main produce season ends.... and hmm.... doesn't that also roughly coincide with the timing of your next election?? Anyhow, it's a convenient system, this allowing of people in to do grunt work when you want some cheap help, but of booting the same people out of the country when you don't want to be responsible for them. So, what to do? Do you pay them properly and find something for them to do when there's no more work for the season? But then again, maybe you can find them some work that nobody else wants. Heck, maybe they would be happy to work in factories making depleted uranium munitions (if they aren't already the ones doing that right now)? Frankly, I don't have any good answers to offer to a country that has grown so addicted to an underground economy based on the hiring of illegal immigrants, and to offshore sweatshop manufacturing facilities. Can the leopard change its spots? I guess I'm enough of a cynic to say that it can't. I will patiently await convincing. (o: