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Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter
But that would require some sort of amnesty, some sort of expedited naturalization and/or guest worker program, and some sort of increased enforcement, penalties, and prosecution of business that, within a revamped immigration system, continue to hire illegals. All three of those things are pretty controversial...
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Yep. Regardless of how much we want to punish the law breakers, it's just not practical.
I would say that businesses need to be given a grace period that essentially accounts for the amount of time that it takes their illegal employees to become legal. Otherwise, you're expecting them to just get rid of what could be a major part of their workforce. Given the choice of losing your business due to an exodus of labor, or taking your chances at getting caught, a lot of employers will take their chances.
But more importantly, before we do any of that, I feel that we have to insure that more won't be able to enter illegally. Otherwise we're setting ourselves up for a repeat of the situation, just like we did in the 80s.