The president opened the dialog to open the borders for migrant workers to enter the country legally today. People would be able to pass with the promise of a job and would then be able to go back and forth once they’re registered (I think I heard something about microchip implants, too). They won’t have to give up contact with their families (for fear of not being able to return to the U.S.) as they have in the past, except for an exchange of funds they’ve earned in this country.
Despite waiting two years to readdress this issue, Bush’s election-year largess to court the Latino vote may backfire. Despite making big business happy by allowing agribusiness, construction and textiles — among others — to come out of the closet about their hiring of illegal aliens, the president is causing a slowdown in another booming industry: Illegal alien smugglers are suddenly on the outside looking in.
I’m waiting for a coalition of smugglers to send lobbyists with pockets laden by slave-trade profits to head to Washington to cry poor-mouth over this turn of events.
Maybe the Republicans can find a way to subsidize the smugglers. They’re doing it for everyone else….