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So Mr. Crocker thinks that crossing the border ILLEGALLY is okay? How about we extend the same "amnesty" to all Americans for such other laws the illegals have broken -- tax evasion, identity theft, falsifying documents, and, often, welfare fraud. And how about we all get to pay income tax 3 out 5 years? And we get to set our income level on good faith like the illegal aliens! Hell, I'll kick in two grand for that!

p>Nothing can ever work without tough border enforcement FIRST. br> -- unsigned /p>

Mr. Crocker, I must respectfully ask, that in the interest of fairness that you be deported. Do you really think the Senate version is viable? Consider:

1. "The goal is to get working illegals to come forward so that we can document who they are and where they are and process them into a controlled system, and then concentrate on getting rid of the rest." How does this work when it will be possible that as documentation all it will take to step forward to document yourself is an affidavit from a friend. That's not validation that opening one's self for fraud.

2. "...how a guest worker program could enhance the likelihood of better border, and interior, enforcement, largely by helping to break apart the coalition of agricultural, business, and political interests that has proven such an effective lobby against such enforcement in the past...." Explain to me, sir, how a continued extension of the U.S. AGJobs program with Blue Card provisions works in Americans' favor? The holder of a Blue Card can only be discharged by just cause not at will which is better than more Americans have. Not only that but the provisions continue even after that person leaves the ag sector for another job elsewhere. And the legal protections extended are at tax payers' expense.

3. "But even under the opponents' worst-case scenario in which we end up with a guest worker program that is largely ignored, is that any worse than the status quo?" Yes. Because today if an employer is caught with illegals it is clear that they broke the law. Under the proposed provisions the employer could take the "I encouraged them but the employee refused with a wink and a nod" defense. That inserts ambiguity into the prosecution of illegal employers.

4. "... will not be irreparably breeched if a maid working the past three years at a hotel in San Jose successfully uses forged documents to allow her to apply for the guest worker program without having to travel to San Ysidro." Sir, that is the case for how she got the job in the first place -- using forged documents. Illegals are not undocumented aliens; they are misdocumented aliens. All you are doing is encouraging behavior that is clearly already implanted in the illegal subculture.

5. "...Even so, in many parts of the country the labor market for agricultural workers and some construction trades is very tight. And the number of Americans looking for work for more than 26 consecutive weeks is a mere 1.4 million. ..." Disingenuous at best. First the 26 weeks moniker. There at that few number of Americans because none are having to wait the full 26 weeks to find employment. The number out of work is much higher. The construction industry is tight right now because of Katrina and a hot real estate market. And the "woe is me" ag sector using cheap labor as a cover not to do the capital investments to automate their picking operations. Or are you Sir suggesting that we should go back to using Mexicans to pick cotton that that sector of the industry abandoned in the '40s for cotton combines?

Mr. Crocker, I have a few for you to answer as to the equity of the proposed bill. Do you consider it equitable that:

* An illegal will be able to skate on two years of five on their tax obligations if they have any? Most native Americans would jump at that chance.

* That under the Dream Act that a child of an illegal may qualify for in state tuition at the institution of their choice that is barred a native?

* That the country needs more ditch diggers than programmers, scientists and doctors?

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