A 'work-visa' program wouldn't work? It would be better than what's happening now ..... our NC Governor just went on record saying that he's supporting illegal immigrants attending our state-tax-supported community college system. Complete disregard for the existing laws of our nation. I don't understand it. 
aaaagh. spyder
Agree with the work Visa concept Spydy...we have a International Student Services area at UAB...it is not only for students, but for immigrant employees as well. I have to deal with this area on almost a daily basis, getting our post docs in, research people, etc. It is an absolute nightmare, not for me, but for the two or three employees working in the ISS office on campus. We do not hire illegals, needless to say, but the Federal Immigration policy is absurd in many ways. I cannot go into all the details here, but we are trying to get qualified, highly skilled people in, and the feds make it very difficult. They've got their priorities backwards...we NEED these people, because we don't seem to have the means to raise them ourselves because our school systems are generally so woefully lacking.
The Mexican problem is something else entirely...they are taking jobs around this part of the country that nobody else wants to do. There's got to be a lot more money pumped into the immigration problem to hire enough people to do the job they find impossible to do now...they are simply overwhelmed by the volume. The manpower it's going to take to tackle this problem is going to be expensive, but it's something we need to do to get a handle on things. Building a fence might help, but we've got to have PEOPLE to patrol and deal with the problem as well. There's no free lunch on any side of this equation...we're going to pay, we've just got to have some leadership that will step up to the plate with some comprehensive direction.
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