Reply #46: I've lived in NYC and the Puget sound area [View All]

Yes, absolutely.
Sure some of the undocumented immigrants I've met were hispanic. Many more were asian. Some were european as well. Yet the sentiment I hear is particularly an anti-hispanic bias. I don't like that

I'm not so fond of the idea of people entering the country without due process though. I've sponsored an immigrant before, and I do not feel it is fair to the legal immigrants who put up with a lot of paperwork, interviews, physical exams and money to come here, only to discover many people that get here without all that.

The solution is to enforce the current law, not to create a immigrant worker caste. Lets face it, the reason that people are crossing the borders is for jobs. The reasons those jobs exist for undocumented workers is because those that use these types of workforces don't want to pay minimum wage for their work. Does anyone think that the employers that are employing undocumented workers will play by the new rules, when the old rules were not enforced?

Of course, using minimum wage labor for these jobs would wind up costing more to the consumer, but perhaps we ought to know what the real cost is to the meat we eat, or the plants we grow. If we did, we might come up with better laws.