As I mentioned above, many of the undocumented workers im my area are migrant farmworkers and those who do the menial jobs no one else wants to do. Agriculture is a big part of California's economy, and that economy is dependent on the illegal labor pool.
It seems to me that there is something wrong with a "system" that is depedant upon ILLEGAL workers. Why can't they became part of the legal status quo? WHAT is it in our system that equates cheap, unskilled labor with illegality? I'm sorry, but the two don't come clean together in the wash. There should be a simple system whereby those wanting to perform the cheap, unskilled labor tasks necessary, can register at the border for a temporary work permit of whatever time frame is required to perform the job, and the return from whence they came. What's so difficult about that to comprehend?
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