When we needed more workers in high tech, Congress created a visa category (H-1B) to address that need. In fact, we now have 31(!) different categories of temporary visas for such and other purposes. We have ALWAYS used temporary visas for various work in the USA. So why is a temporary worker visa for such workers as those from Mexico not appropriate? Why are people getting so worked up over the notion of requiring non-resident immigrants from Mexico to carry such legal documentation? Everyone else who isn't a legal resident has to! In fact, police have the legal authority ask anyone for identification now after they've stopped them for whatever reason.
A temporary worker visa is a perfect solution to this problem but people are opposed to that too for some reason even though we've been using those for years and years already. For example, look up the H-1B worker visa description on the internet. This argument that Mexican workers are needed for jobs Americans won't or can't do has an EXACT corollary to the high tech worker need and there's no logical reason why the solution cannot be the same. It has worked before. In fact, it has become THE STANDARD way of dealing with non-resident immigrants.
Now Arizona has a law that will require non-resident immigrants to carry documents ... just like the federal government ALREADY requires! The federal government has been enforcing (although erratically!) this requirement for many, many years. So why is it unacceptable for Arizona to say, yes we agree and want to make that very SAME requirement enforceable at the local level too for more effective enforcement. The only thing different with the Arizona law is that they intend to enforce it rigorously. The only difference is that Arizona's law will be enforced by local law enforcement, not federal. The Arizona law is no more unconstitutional than the equivalent federal law.
Arguments against worker visas for immigrants are nonsense. It is constitutional and has been practiced for many years for all other categories of non-resident immigrants.
The fact of illegal immigrants finding a way to get here does not obligate US citizens to grant them amnesty and a permanent stay here. We have a moral obligation to consider all applications for residency and citizenship but we already have processes for that. Come here by one of the many legal means and you can stay. Come here illegally and all you're 'entitled' to is arrest and deportation or imprisonment for breaking our laws. We ARE a nation of laws aren't we? Or do we now prefer anarchy?
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