If illegal employers refuse to stop hiring illegals, it is better to make them legal citizens. When they become Americans they will start asking for fair pay and benefits. Maybe even Unions. And they'll start paying taxes. Their already here. May as well make it legal if the corporations won't stop using them to destroy the middle class.
Then the next wave of illegals will come in and work for cheap labor. Seems that amnesty was tried under reagan and failed miserable because the democrats didn't do what they promised when it was passed. Wow, I was surprised.
Me? I would say build the fence, guard our borders......then talk about how to handle the 15-20 million that are already here. Politicians always get it ass backwards.
Read the freakin article! Before Reagan, there was no need for a fence. They went home because they were only offered migrant seasonal fruit picking jobs. Today they compete with poor and middle class Americans for our jobs.
How will building a fence stop them from coming in on a visitors visa and just overstaying their welcome?
Stop pointing to a few liberals that want to protect illegals. Open your eyes and realize the GOP loves illegals because they lower our wages and they do shit for cheap.
Actually, the GOP is divided on the issue:
Today's Immigration Battle: Corporatists vs. Racists (and Labor is Left Behind)
We will never stop the bleeding heart liberals who want us to give illegals amnesty from speaking their minds. But they don't put food on their tables. Its the people who actually hire them. They are the source. Instead of building a fence on our border, why not just put the employers in prison? What problem could you possibly have for that?