terratogen wrote:
I don't happen to think that it would be fair to allow people to cut ahead of the line of an organ donor list, and i think cutting in front of the legal waiting list is equally faulty.

The trouble is that there is no line. There is no process for people to immigrate unless they are related to an American or they are a professional.

If they've already snuck in across a border, rather than sending them right back home at our expense, I'd think it would be fair to give them some time to impress us, or go home at their own tax dollars. Give them six months to find an income of $30,000 or better.

I might choose a lower number then $30,000, but this is a reasonable idea in general. You want people who are going to actually get jobs. If they aren't working they shouldn't stay.

Even if you give a legal arm, and increase the legal means for entry, I don't know that this will not just also increase the number of illegals.

I don't think so. I tend to think about this the way I think about filesharing. If there is a legal way to purchase the songs, its mostly not worth the trouble of dealing with the p2p networks. The risk of crossing and living here illegally is not worth it if there is a legal way, even if you have to wait in a line. Furthermore, we can actually improve our enforcement if we have rules to enforce that are actually mostly working and not just widely ignored...

However, there is a problem that we have with enforcement... How do you PROVE someone is an illegal? Not everyone has a birth certificate or a social security number.

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