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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 11/12/06, Rob <becida AT comcast.net> wrote:

> These people do show up, they do get jobs, they do pay what taxes
> they have to and they do send money home. Be a lot easier to control
> the situation by dealing with the reality rather than make everyone
> stop and show their papers.

It may have been a while since you last went to work for an employer,
but right now employers are supposed to have proof that the person
they're hiring is a citizen. The complaint employers make is that they
have to go by the documents that are presented to them, which may be
forged.

> Of course this "deal with it as it is" rational hasn't made any
> headway in the recreational drug 'war' in the last 30 plus years.

I dunno. This problem seems much more amenable to a straightforward
solution if the will is there to enforce hiring laws. Yes, I know
there's all the off-the-book stuff, but so far not much effort has
been made to prosecute employers.

Marie