Friday, May 18, 2007

Immigration Bill

I dont really have much reaction to the mishmash bill that came out yesterday. Ultimately, only two things will work to reduce the flow.....1) massive punishment for people hiring illegals; until the cost of being caught is so great it overcomes the profit of super-cheap labor, companies (and individuals) will continue to hire illegals, providing incentive to come and 2) making other countries more economically competitive with the U.S. (or alternately, the apparent Repug plan of making the U.S. more third world) so that the advantage of moving from there to here is lessened.

Kevin pretty well sums up my ennui.

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