Mickey Kaus notes an interesting tweet from Senator Marco Rubio's press secretary, Alex Conant:
Rubio press aide Alex Conant tweets that
Without temporary worker program to fill US demand for low-skill labor, people will find way to come illegally despite new fence
Really? Hasn’t Rubio been busy telling us that his plan would secure
the border? Now his flack tells us people “will find a way to come
illegally” despite it? Doesn’t this mean that those who can’t get into
the guest worker program (maybe because it’s full, or because they don’t
qualify) will be able to “find a way” in as well–so the elaborately
negotiated limits on the number of guestworkers will be routinely
violated and, in practice, meaningless? Doesn’t it also mean that those
who are drawn by the prospect of the next amnesty (because, you know, ”we can’t deport them all!” and “Latino voters”) will “find a way”in too?
But Conant isn't the only one suggesting that future border enforcement might be less than effective. Senator Rubio himself says it,
this post from Hot Air notes:
“A lot of it is going to hinge on the viability of a guest worker
program. There are elements in organized labor that don’t want one. I
think, really, that’s going to become the critical issue in this debate …
whether we can create a viable guest worker program that protects
American workers, but also ensures that in the future [if] we need
foreign labor for limited periods of time, we’re able to access that in a
legal way. Because if we don’t have a program like that in place, we’re
going to have 10 million illegal immigrants here in a decade again.”
This statement
obviously contradicts
the line taken by the New York Times and others that we needn't worry about an amnesty encouraging further illegal immigration because there are few people left abroad who would want to immigrate illegally.
