Letters to the Editor
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Okay, I'll be serious.
The illegal immigration debate punishes the IMMIGRANTS while not removing any incentive for them to come over. Companies still offer cheap jobs to illegal immigrants, and they still come over, and then we just deport them again, and the void is filled with more workers.
For all of Romney's tough talk on immigration, he really did the only thing that's ever going to make a difference: By firing the landscaping firm, he hurt the BUSINESS employing the illegal immigrants. That sends a message that he won't do business with a company that employs people illegally. A real kick in the pants would be some kind of federal statute saying the company must be fined the daily minimum wage salary of a documented worker for every day the company has employed illegal labor. That would send a pretty clear message that the US will not tolerate illegal immigration, and it removes the incentive for business to hire illegal immigrants.
Put up all the fences you want, but until you make it more costly for business to employ illegals than it is for them to employ documented workers, there will never be a solution to the problem. But hey, imposing regulations on business isn't being a good republican. So let's get the Army and Blackwater to round em up and send em back.