Posted by: mcq on Thursday, April 13, 2006 The Scotsman is reporting that in anticipation of the passage of immigration legislation which would include a guest worker program and tougher border security, traffic in the southwest border areas of the US is up: UNDOCUMENTED migrants are rushing to Mexico's border with Arizona, encouraged by the prospect of a guest-worker programme in the United States and anticipating a toughening of border security that would make a dangerous journey even more perilous.Sounds like a rerun of the scenario which developed with the Reagan amnesty plan, doesn't it? Mr Loureiro said he saw a similar spike in illegal migration in 1986, when the US approved legislation allowing 2.6 million undocumented migrants to get US citizenship.Sometimes our collective memory seems to be short. We seem to forget that most human beings respond to incentives, be they positive or negative. Thus far we've provided many more incentives for illegals to cross the border than to attempt to enter lawfully. That's why so many in the US are now demanding that border security take precedence over immigration reform. Many are also demanding a demonstration of better border control before immigration reform, which includes some type of guest worker program, is passed. One of those demanding that is me. And I'll continue to demand it until I see something done in that regard which changes the ROI (return on investment) of illegal border crossing from a positive return to a negative return for those considering it. Only when that happens will the incentive exist for potential illegal immigrants to consider entering legally. And only then will any sort of guest worker program have a possibility of working. |
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