Illegals Should Build the Border Fence

Thank you, I appreciate your remarks. First off, This policy would be in violation of the 8th ammendment.(possibly the 5th and 13th too) The 8th ammendmate states: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." The idea that imigrants would be subjected to forced labor under supervision of police is cruel and unusual. Every last state in the union has done away with 'convict lease' system, the socalled 'chain-gangs', Aside from it being unconstitutional, how about it being indecent, wrong, and not even a good way to get a fence built? The United States welcomes imigrants, the criteria changes, but their always welcomed. A quick look at the INS website will show how many visas are available. 'investors' are offered an unlimited stay in the U.S. I want to dispell the notion that imigration policy is confused. It is not, Its valves are fined tuned to get what it wants. Business wants cheap labor. It wants cheap labor more than it wants lower taxes, and thats saying alot. This countries imigration policy is set the way it is because business likes it that way. Illegal immigrants account for almost half of the industry that supplies our food.(1) The math is simple: Legal worker must be paid $8 and hour(CA) plus employers portion of taxes e.g. unemployment,medicare,social secruity, workers comp. That worker must also be paid overtime if he goes over 40hours in a workweek, and the employer must provide some benifits. Not to mention the ever looming threat of getting sued. Now lets compared that to an illegal imigrant you can skip all of the above and pay $5 an hour, or a percentage of the goods they pick (as in strawberries). mutiply that by 500 farm hands. In an 8-hour workday Thats (at the most conservative estimate)$36,000 a day. Compared to our hero who only pays $20,000. Thats almost 80% higher! before tax! Whose grapes are you going to buy at the supermarket, the $2.99 a pound or the $5.38 a pound? Either way you choose the free market will quickly do away with the former, whose use of Legal workers rendered him unable to compete. This goverment will not see its food prices rise 50%. Forget about occupying, there'll be a storming of the bastille. Lastly the true arguement to your case: Say we wanted to build a fence, If we used immigrants we would be losing valauble jobs....to immigrants! The cost to house, feed, and supervise these immigrants would be higher than if we just hired contractors to do the job. Even if it was cheaper to use immigrants, What kind of poorly constructed fence would we get? We've seen bridges collapse due to poor construction, Are we expecting a quality fence from these forced prisoners? I should think not. After all what incentive would any of these indentured servants have to do a good job? Infact they have all the incentive to sabotage the project. For the record, Illegal immigrants come many countries, not just mexico. The plan seems to send tresspassing canadians...to mexico. I submit my contentions, Thank you The economic incentive to keep immigrants is there, and that is much more powerful than the loudest participant at any townhall. (http://olsonpr.com...) http://usgovinfo.about.com...