Here’s a prediction.
A path to citizenship will be offered to the
current 11 million, and if it is not too onerous, most of them will take
it. But others will not, planting the seeds of a new illegal
population. Possibly a guest-worker program will be put into place, but
even if so, it will be too small and too entangled with bureaucracy for
employers and workers to want to use.
Over the years, millions more
people from Mexico and especially (as Mexico’s economy continues to
improve) Central and South America will illegally enter the United
States. They will be partly drawn by jobs, and partly by waiting family
and friends, and the law will not deter them because they expect that
sooner or later another path to citizenship will open up. Ten or 20
years from now, everyone will recognize a new illegal immigration
“problem,” which we will again “solve” by removing the “illegal” label
from the foreheads of the migrants and affixing the “legal” label in its
place.
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to answer someone who just tried to post--It doesn't matter if this graphic has been around for 7 years or even more. It tells the story. Find me a more current graphic and I will put that one up there. Let's solve this problem and stop worrying so much about the graphic.
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