Where’s the fence, George?

Some Hispanics were just as opposed to the shot-down-in-flames immigration bill as some gringoes:

"We all know that the temporary guest worker program that the bill proposed was a cheap labor program. Obviously that was the point. What wasn’t so obvious is that if you were one of the less-educated immigrants–for example if you didn’t graduate in high school–your wages would be decreasing. The bill had no wage floor provisions: there was no requirement that the employers pay prevailing wages…The influx of cheap labor would have had a depressing effect on wages across the board, not just on unskilled labor."

Meanwhile, where’s the fence? Even the piddling one being built is fouled up, as this AP editorial-as-news reports. Of course the Mexican government won’t cooperate. They’re the problem to begin with.

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