My thoughts on current imigration debate.

Of the immigration debate , I think it is full of sound and fury signifying that people can generate sound and fury . Immigrants are blamed for hospital failures , but when the California Attorney General had a blue ribbon panel investigate , the panel found that the hospitals that were filing were small , inefficient , and operating marginally Poor management , inability to compete , and the harshness of managed care were bigger problems that immigrants in the emergency room . The panel barely alluded to this issue , finding any impact slight and almost random

As far as

the migrant taking jobs , American business has been responsible for more job loss than the immigrants . Companies outsource whole factories . A part of the trend is the propensity of major corporations to shun their tax responsibility by moving their even headquarters offshore . As in manufacturing , in agriculture , corporate farms have moved labor intensive crops overseas . We have fresh strawberries almost year round , from places like Chile

Employers are now required to '93check '94 every worker '92s documents , but many employers put minimal effort into this , while hiring anyone who wants a job . If we are serious about keeping illegal immigrants out of the workplace , and the country , we could do it . Every employee an employee must provide the employer with a social security number . The employer then withholds taxes for that account . Later , the employee s a tax return . But illegal aliens do not taxes . The rightful holder of the number s . But a cross check of records would show that the rightful holder of the number was not the person working for the employer

Currently , an employer can deduct wages paid to any employee , legal or illegal . What if that deduction is denied for money paid to anyone other than the real holder of a Social Security number ? Congress could adopt a rule that wages paid to a person giving a false Social Security number are not deductible . At once , employers would have a huge monstrous incentive to verify Social Security numbers , because doing less would cost serious money . Instead of the laxity of the current system , employers would be certain that employees were legal and would turn away undocumented aliens . And with employment drying up , many illegal workers would go home...