Re: Free-trade and Offshoring of jobs argument

From: alexy (nospam_at_asbry.net)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:19:09 -0400

Tiny Human Ferret <ixnayamspay_klaatu@earthops.net> wrote:

>Basically you cannot entirely remove the underground economy, nor would
>one want to, the costs are too high in terms of social disruption. Even
>if you succeeded in getting all of the illegals removed, all you've done
>is create a situation where local teenagers can't cut your lawn because
>of all of the regulation.
Exactomundo. So you agree with the subcommittee that you can't
completely eliminate all of the illegal aliens without a police state.
>
>However, there can be, and should be, more checking of authorization in
>terms of easily-verified documentation as a pre-requisite to employment
>in the trades that "traditionally" attract illegals. This would include
>fast-food, any major corporate employment in meat processing, etc. This
>alone would make an industry segment presently employing probably one ro
>two million illegals.
>
>The same sort of document checking should be required when applying for
>a loan, for a federally-insured mortgage, a federally-insured bank
>account, on any encounter whatsoever with State and local governments, etc.
>
>Will this have the effect of severely marginalizing the illegals?
>Certainly: and that's the idea. Since they are coming to America --
>illegally dontcha know -- because it's an immense and highly-profitable
>step up from life in their homelands, make it less of a step up, and
>more of a case of swapping one hellhole for another, one where not
>everybody speaks their language.
>
>Of course, there has to be some sort of commensurate compensation in
>making the process and experience of Legal immigration to be much less
>troublesome and time-consuming.
>
>Right now, the rewards are all stacked in favor of sneaking across the
>border and then finding yourself "on Easy Street". It's simply time to
>adjust the balances of reward and effort to deter illegal immigration
>and to reward doing things the right way, legally. 

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