Q, it is not,[repeat is not] about immigration. It is about ILLEGAL immigration!

Many years ago, before 1964, California had a wonderful (not a perfect) way to employ Mexican farm workers. They would come in, work, and then when the planting or harvests were completed go back home with more money than they would have earned in Mexico.

I know of few people who are against a regularized immigration of foreign workers when locals cannot fill all the slots. I know from news reports that in the Los Angeles area, Blacks were the largest group of dry wall hangers, and making about $18.00/hr, not a munificent sum today. With illegal immigrant labor, the rate has dropped to about $12.00/hr. At a nuclear power plant in California, it had been found that a large proportion of maintenance painters provided by a labor contractor were illegally working foreigners. There is no shortage of qualified painters in southern California.

Should the workers be deported? I think so. Should the labor contractor be punished? Severely.

We had an illegal immigrant amnesty during the Reagan administration. Well it didn't work. No one acted on the penalty provisions that were supposed to follow the amnesty. It became just one big, scofflaw joke. Do you wonder there is a problem, and ye, it is a problem with illegal immigration now?