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p>He is the perfect example of the "good guy" sports figure. br> -- David Smith br> Pearland, Texas
Re: Tom Bethell's Freedom of Immigration Acts : /p>
1. What is wrong with cheap labor? Teenagers used to get their introduction to the work world with after school and weekend jobs. The moral
training and introduction to the work ethic that goes along with those jobs has been lost because the jobs are being done by Mexicans.
2. The fact that workers are undocumented means that they work without protections (safety, abuse, civil rights, worker's comp, unemployment
insurance) which we, as a society, have declared that we should have in place. We have a two-tiered standard of law. Those who hire illegals
can break the other laws and those who don't hire illegals get busted when they violate the law. Meanwhile illegals die and are maimed in
unreported workplace accidents.
3. The conservative argument is: First enforce the border, then we can move on to the other issues. After we agree to another amnesty, we
will have no handle to convince big business liberals to enforce the law.
4. Criticizing a "welfare entitlement" attitude doesn't make it go away. It's still there and it still will cost money.
5. Kolbe's argument is that if we increase border security, we will cut the illegal immigration problem way down, probably to manageable
size. That is precisely the argument that Bethel attributes to conservatives, yet Kolbe is not a conservative.
6. The fact that France has a worse problem doesn't make our issues any better.
7. Mexico will probably move to a more capitalistic system. However they have had recent insurrections. They may have more. From our
perspective, things may get worse before they get better.
p>8. The two sides to this debate are really big business and non-big business. Bush, Pelosi, Kennedy, Cheney, and the other big money people
want cheap labor