No. of Recommendations: 6
Are you proposing mass amnesty for everyone that's here illegally?
No. I'm saying that these attacks are disproportionate. They are sweeping in to places -in many cases that don't have many undocumented immigrants**- and bullying people, beating them, shooting them. These aren't the "really bad dudes" or the "worst of the worst", as we were promised. These are otherwise law abiding people being targeted. In many cases, people who are awaiting their hearings (so they are, in fact, law abiding entirely). It's harassment of an ethnic community.
You really want to solve the problem of overstays and border-crossers? Severe penalties on the employers. Make it the employers' responsibility to verify documentation. My company did that voluntarily. Make it mandatory. The jobs for undocumented labor will dry-up almost overnight. No jobs, no incentive to overstay a valid visa (very common), or cross the border illegally. There likely will be some under the table stuff (e.g. day labor from 7-11 parking lots), but a fraction of what we have right now. That's how to address the problem, and you don't have to shoot anyone to do it.
**You want undocumented? Go to Texas. Not Minnesota.
