Thank you.
The law does not state someone has to look illegal, they have to be suspected of being an illegal. But If I have to carry a license to drive a vehicle and wear a helmet to drive a motorcycle then we can enforce current law that says workers from other countries need to carry their papers.
Here's the catch.
You can "suspect" someone based on their looks. This has been used in many other cases. The way you walk, talk, look, dress. It has been used on minorities and youths for a long time.
Why?
BECAUSE IT WORKS. In many cases, unless they are skilled con men or other criminals, they do not look like the suburban grandma. Two black kids w/hoodies at 11pm on a weeknight looking around a lot are SUSPICIOUS. Because they are black? Nope, although crime demographics do not help if 95% of the people in the local projects are black, but that is another issue. But all the other "looks" are suspicious.
So if you are "looking" for a "suspicious" individual that may be an illegal immigrant in an area where 99% of those illegals are Mexican.... it does not help when you start questioning Indian families.
Further illegal immigrants buy someone else's social security number and that can cause issues to us.
We need to get the stats on this.
MOST of these people do not buy these things themselves. They do not know SS from a hole in the ground. The guy getting them work, the pit master, he is getting the numbers and making his work crew can be paid above the table. So now "John Winkleheimer" is "working" 40 hours in a lettuce patch in Kentucky and miraculously producing the same amount that required union labor 80-90 hours to do.
And we need protection when immigrants break laws. How do you stop the Mexican gangs from walking into the US?
Red herring.
They are making money on the border as it is, mostly because of our own laws. Pot is a huge (stoned) cash cow, as well as illegal gun running. It does not suit them to cross the border (much) at all. They have their established routes, both legal and not.
I see Phoenix, Airzona already has some of highest kidnapping rate in the US, but I suppose that will not change if we try and keep our borders secure.
Who is being kidnapped? What is the rate? This is too selective an example to bring out as a direct example of illegal immigration and a possible artificial inflation of something that, although serious, is still not anywhere near as bad as, say, domestic gang warefare.
But we agree that it is good to have immigration for the jobs we do not want. But it has to be done properly, and when done properly it will still be less strict and imposing on us that most other countries.
Yep. You decrease the potential and desire for this to be illegal and you reduce the profit made from assisting it.
Legalize pot and you will get a bunch more good for nothing pot heads, but you will also remove one VERY EASILY obtained substance from the cash rolls of organized crime.
Start more lenient immigrant labor policies, with more watchdogs, and you will need less people watching the border.
YOU FRIGGING FOCUS ON MEXICO INSTEAD OF IRAQ AND MAYBE WE WOULD NOT HAVE AS MANY PROBLEMS. i do not mean invade them, but i am sure they would welcome some help in "cleaning up" some "troublesome spots" along our shared border.