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22 Apr 08
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But most senators switched primarily because conservative talk-show hosts and anti-immigrant groups such as the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and NumbersUSA had mobilized an unprecedented level of grass-roots opposition to any form of legalization. If opposition to legalization remains as intense and well-organized as it was this year, immigration reform may prove elusive for years to come.
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Threat of imprisonment for six months, for example, might significantly reduce the number of people attempting to enter. But such a policy would also poison relations with Mexico, infuriate immigrant groups in the United States, offend many American voters, and cost a lot of money.
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Only fifteen firms were fined more than $5,000 for employing unauthorized immigrants in 1990, and the number dropped to twelve in 1994, two in 1998, and zero in 2004. The number of hours spent on worksite inspections also fell by more than half between 1999 and 2003.[5
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But even in 2006 ICE made fewer than five thousand worksite arrests, so an illegal worker still had less than one chance in a thousand of getting arrested at work
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Because business interests exert so much political influence in the United States, no serious crackdown on employing undocumented workers is likely to last unless it is accompanied by a large-scale legalization program that allows employers to retain most of the undocumented workers already on their payroll.
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If we do not want poorly educated natives to become an idle underclass, they must be able to find steady jobs. Such jobs cannot replace all the benefits of further education, but they are probably our best hope for keeping families together and keeping people out of trouble.
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Recent research also suggests that more assimilation has been taking place than Buchanan may realize. Roughly a third of second-generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants marry a non-Asian or non-Hispanic, and the figure is well over half for the third generation.[15] Children of unskilled immigrants also move up the economic ladder at about the same rate as children of unskilled native-born workers, closing roughly half the gap between their parents and the average American
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