"It's a good bet that any meaningful sanctions on employers would have been stripped out the immigration bill just defeated--even if it had made it through the Senate..."

                All of us who worked together to defeat the bill figured that out. It's another good reason why it didn't pass.

                Strides are being made in this area, though, they have sanctions on employers in Arizona now, and various towns and counties around the country. Members of congress will get the drift only when they start to see their buddies loosing elections. We saw quite a bit of that in 2006, and we'll see more in 2008. The most encouraging element of it all are the new Democrats who are taking tough stands against immigration.


                It's a lot like drunk driving laws. Very few people took them seriously at all thirty years ago. But they take them seriously now. It was a matter of education. Once the public discovered how much damage drunk driving did, they back tough legislation.
                Illegal immigration does a lot more damage than drunk driving ever did. It's just a matter of informing the public.