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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

I think the law allows unequal treatment of citizens (based too much on race.) I don't want someone like Andre Ethier getting stopped just because he's half Latino. Whatever measures used to stop Illegal Immgration needs to be very forceful. We need to punish those who hire them. Even if the illegals have fake papers to show, employers should be fined if it's found that THEY HAVE AN ILLEGAL WORKING FOR THEM. That means you better be pretty damn sure that your employee is a citizen. Matter of fact, why take a chance? Guess who's gunna get hired? Those with the best English skills. Those who people are pretty damn sure are citizens. That's not racial profiling. It's letting Americans be responsible for who they employ. Illegals aren't gunna be responsible. You need to put the pain on those who have the most to lose.


And later has this conversation with Wolf Blitzer:

BLITZER: So if people want to come from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador or Nicaragua, they want to just come into Mexico, they can just walk in?

CALDERON: No. They need to fulfill a form. They need to establish their right name. We analyze if they have not a criminal precedent. And they coming into Mexico. Actually...

BLITZER: Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants?

CALDERON: Of course. Of course, in the border, we are asking the people, who are you?

And if they explain...

BLITZER: At the border, I understand, when they come in.

CALDERON: Yes.

BLITZER: But once they're in...

CALDERON: But not -- but not in -- if -- once they are inside the -- inside the country, what the Mexican police do is, of course, enforce the law. But by any means, immigration is a crime anymore in Mexico.

BLITZER: Immigration is not a crime, you're saying?

CALDERON: It's not a crime.

BLITZER: So in other words, if somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America, through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico, they can go get a job...

CALDERON: No, no.

BLITZER: They can work.

CALDERON: If -- if somebody do that without permission, we send back -- we send back them.

BLITZER: You find them and you send them back?

CALDERON: Yes.

The amount of racial profiling that would occur if your employer scenario was enacted would dwarf the supposed racial profiling that this law supposedly causes. For if you want to enforce draconian penalties for employers for hiring illegals, many will simply stop hiring anyone that remotely looks or talks like the stereotypical illegal. Not to mention that your typical business owner does not have any formal training in determining the authenticity of immigration documents. Having had plenty of experience in dealing with both legal and illegal documents, the ones that are being used nowdays all look good. It used to be fairly easy to seperate the bad ones from the good ones but even then unless the document was laughlingly fake (like spelling errors or signatures in crayon) legally we are not allowed to deny someone a job based on their documents.