Developers and contractors hiring illegals

Suppose tomorrow congress passes a law indicating that the penalty for hiring illegal workers was, say, six months for the first offense in a federal prison, and 50,000 dollars fine. You can guess at continuing offenses.
The way we will know is this: if the worker isn't registered by fingerprint and eye scan with the federal government, then you can't hire them.
Now that program will work, but what do we do day after tomorrow about building or remodelling homes and buildings, restaurant help, gardening, shrubbery installation, mowing, office and WalMart cleanup, and on and on?
We could do without all that for awhile but many businesses would go broke and many housewives would have to tend to their own business.
What dooooo we doooo? I know; make them all legal.
Here's how:
Have all people who hire illegals issue them a card that says they can work---you name them card. When the card is issued the company must then send in the information to Washington, where it will be input and saved and stored.
Now for a period of eight years, all inquiries to Washington about legality will automatically be approved, since it will take 30 years to input all the information, and then the software won't work on-line.
After the eight years, extensions will be granted as needed.
All the foreign criminals here, legal or otherwise, are to be given amnesty, so they can start over here.
Meanwhile, we will put many of them to work on a triple fence from California to Mississippi---kinda like the Berlin Wall, The Great Wall of China, Hadrians Wall in Scotland---well, you get the idea?
If we pay 100 dollars per barrel for Arab oil, Saudi Arabia will help build the wall. It will take forty years to build the wall, meantime 50 million more have come in and we can start the program over.
Also, boat people from Mexico will also become a serious problem in about 2014, and helicopter delivery of illegals from Canada will be operating fully by 2016.
It all sounds easy to me.

The Wall...

Submitted by TonyF on Wed, 06/20/2007 - 5:22am.

Why not give the immigrants temporary work visas (not the credit card) and have them build the wall.
Just a thought. Kind of like poetic justice, yes?

"The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime.You shuffle in the gloom of the sick room,and talk to yourself as you die."
(R. Waters)

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Exactly

Submitted by Indocumentado on Tue, 06/19/2007 - 11:45pm.

"Show me a 15 feet wall at the border and a Mexican will show you a 16 feet ladder"

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What a wall!

Submitted by rick7069 on Wed, 06/20/2007 - 7:55am.

Penn & Teller did an episode on illegal immigration. Now, they were for amnesty which I'm against, but they made some valid points. The walls actually built by Mexicans, several of the contractors building the Mexican walls have been busted for hiring illegals. Not surprising, construction is full of illegals.
In the episode, they went to a home depot or something and hired six Mexicans. They took the Mexicans out in the fields and had them build a twenty foot segment of wall just like the one that would be built under the present congressional proposals. It took the six Mexicans all day to put together the wall. Then, they separated the Mexicans into groups of two - One group was to go over the wall, one through, and one under. The longest group took three minutes, the ones going under actually got through first. It was very funny.

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