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Originally Posted by f3lix
So instead of dodging the question with a snarly response, I'll let you try again.
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I don't have all the answers, but I can sure as hell point out a stupid idea when I hear one, and a 2,000 mile long
electric fence is stupid.
I'd start with going after businesses that knowingly hire illegals because they know they can pay them peanuts. I'd encourage current law abiding illegals to come out so we could legalize them and get them paying taxes. I'd legalize pot and end the war on drugs to discourage trafficking. I'd beef up local law enforcement in areas with high concentrations of Mexican gangs. I'd tell stupid white Americans to quit bitching about them taking our jobs, because most of the jobs they take are ones white people won't do anyway. I'd work to enhance NAFTA to make it easier for citizens from Mexico and Canada to come in and out of the country. I'd try (somehow) to increase understanding and empathy, particularly in secondary school students, as to why so many Mexicans are so desperate to immigrate here in the first place. And I'd point out that the US deported 400,000 illegals in 2011 already, a record.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/18/141485...grants-in-year
I'd also like to make a more generalized point. People in this country want to have their cake and eat it too. One of the main effects of globalization is that yes, we get goods at much cheaper rates, but that means some jobs go away overseas. If you don't want jobs to go away then adopt protectionism, but then don't bitch that things are too expensive. Similarly, a lot of places hire illegals so they can don't have to pay them as much. Sometimes the those savings are transferred to the customer, which customers like, and thus buy more things. If a business has to hire a white person to do the same job but pay them three times as much then that cost will be transferred to the customer.
But nobody wants to hear that.