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In article <3d8604cb.17253549@news.ev1.net>, montep@email.com (Monte) 
wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:20:59 GMT, SteveR <texdriver@attbi.com> wrote:
> 
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> >Well, here's a bit of the backlash: I never employ Hispanic lawn care 
> >people, nor do I use companies that employ Hispanics when I can avoid 
> >it. I cannot, and will not be put in the position of checking the legal 
> >status of the people I hire to mow my lawn, and I certainly cannot trust 
> >the government or employers to do that. So, I avoid the issue 
> >altogether. I draw from a labor pool less likely to be part of the 
> >problem - Black people and white people. Statistically, the chance of 
> >either of those groups being illegal are less.
> 
> Very eloquently put!  I would add only this as a sort of summing it
> up.  It's the EMPLOYERS of illegals who are the basis for the illegal
> mexican problem.  Until the EMPLOYERS are held up to prosecution no
> amount of effort will curb the flow.  If you are poor you will go to
> any lengths to get to the money, Mexicans risk life and limb daily for
> just that reason.  You cannot deter a hungry person from breaking into
> a breadbox that is left open.  If you remove the breadbox, you remove
> the thief.

It is a cruel world, and you can't save everybody. I have nothing 
against - actually admiration for - someone who will go through hell to 
feed their family. It's not a personal thing, it's not a racist thing, 
it's a big-picture thing, and our gov't is losing that big picture focus 
through some band-aid sense of compassion.

By doing so, they excaberate the problem. The solution is to bring the 
opportunities in Mexico up, not bring our standard of living down.

Unfortunately, the liberal solution is to resist going to the root of 
the problem, and applying a band-aid. And now, Bush is signing on to 
that historically dysfunctional approach. I expected more from him in 
that regard.
> 
> Once the exploitation of illegals by EMPLOYERS paying below minimum
> wage.  THEN you can start to formulate a plan that is fair, with
> accountability etc, whereby if labor shortages exist then Mexican
> nationals can fill them, perhaps even have preference over other
> foreign sorces. But none of this can take place until the EMPLOYERS of
> the illegals are shut down.

Immigration is key to a growing economy. Yes, people have to do the 
low-end jobs. Like all waves of immigrants of history, that is the entry 
to the most sought-after society ever.

We have never given carte blanche to any group without a negative. (The 
massive Cuban brigade was an opportunity for Castro to expel his 
undesireables). As heartless as it may seem, there is a concept of the 
greater good. If we cheapen the essence of our greatness, there will 
eventually be no greatness left. Then, where will people go?
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