I said the immigration issue has reasonable arguments that can be made, not necessarily illegal immigration. The two sides on this could come up with a workable overall immigration solution if they weren't so busy playing to their bases.
We could even try something bold, original and innovative that would address multiple important issues with one strategy -
Band Aids, Borders, Burritos & Bejing - but THAT would take WAY too much communication and cooperation, and we simply no longer possess those attributes.
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Thee are so many common sense obvious things that could help immigration that it makes me grind my teeth. Closing loopholes on overstaying visas and punishing people who hire illegaly would be an obvious start. Right now it seems Democrats are doing everything they can to prevent any progress on immigration. They don't want to risk future votes or give Trump a victory on anything successful through Congress. While I don't think the Rinos care about the issue, it would seem passing something minor and obvious would be politically popular for them right now. They would act like they cared for brownie points.
The biggest farce to me is that neither party wants to talk about holding American employers more accountable for hiring illegals. That's the main draw.
I'm told Trump has increased that. I haven't seen the stats, but we'll see.
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I can only speak for what I see in construction.
Sub contracted crews are responsible for their own hires.
Most legal Mexicans I see are the boss, have the nice truck and all the tools and a crew of 6 to 9 illegals do the work getting paid under the table.
Legal immigrants like cheap labor also.
Are we prepared to lock them up?
I could see the shitstorm now.
No way to enforce it either.
You are 100% correct. There's an industry out here that supports that. I live in a community where illegals all live in this one house, they have their construction trucks, they're making a good living and truth be told, they do kick ass work, that is fact and they're cheaper. A few have been deported after the Trump first announcement. But here's the deal, as long as we the people keep exploiting them for cheap labor, they're not going anywhere.
If we deported them all, the wait times for starting houses would triple. We are already booked out over 6 months per new house start.
I would favor a guest worker program for those who otherwise obey our laws and are productive folks.
I have a major problem with allowing a free for all under the guise of amnesty when most of these folks are not running for their lives. Not to mention that Mexico the first country they entered offered it and that is where they should get it. Instant deportation for the criminal element from the Cartels.
Mexico itself has tougher immigration laws than the U.S.
Time to take care of our own.
The powers that be would rather have us divided on this.