Comments on: Overcriminalization watch: five years for “encouraging” aliens to stay

By: J.T. Wenting

J.T. Wenting — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:13:17 +0000

Well, are there any illegals who don’t stay for financial purposes (mainly if not exclusively)?
Some may come over for educating their kids, but that’s really a financial purpose as it means a higher income for those kids in the future 😉

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By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:23:38 +0000

A rare case of disagreement – your headline is not quite honest. “encouraging them to stay for financial gain” just doesn’t sound as good, eh?

In my opinion, the “for financial gain” part is actually not strict enough, but it’s certainly there in that law, making it so common-sense that I just don’t see the problem (except perhaps for the mandatory minimum, which some people object to always, in principle).

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:38:03 +0000

I’m not to crazy about minimum sentences but I must say this sounds like a step in the right direction. I just had a customer in the office that’s a journeyman with 20 years experience. He lost his job to a mexican that was willing to work for next to nothing. He is having trouble finding a new job because the shops are full of mexicans. I haven’t been active in the construction business in 10 years so I don’t know first hand but this guy tells me that here in the southeast the construction trades are being taken over by illegal workers. They are not all “doing jobs that Americans won’t take” as some have claimed. I do know that a new natural gas pipeline was recently run down 50 miles of highway that I drive often and that 95 percent of the workers I saw on that project were mexicans. I’m just guessing but I’ll bet most of them were illegals.

By: Otis

Otis — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:49:10 +0000

Lacking the time or training to wade through 160+ pages of legal talk, I will comment based on the post.

If the bill makes it a crime to KNOWINGLY assist illegal aliens, I don’t see a major problem with the idea. I do have a problem with mandatory minimum sentences in most cases and have one here as well.

And if the law’s phrasing uses the increase in the penalty for illegal entry to reduce the cases that qualify for the 3 year minimum to a null set, the authors should be run out of office for deliberate deceit or incompetence.

By: J.T. Wenting

J.T. Wenting — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:17:01 +0000

Excellent, at last a means to get tough against people employing or otherwise helping illegal aliens (including “special interest” groups helping them and politicians giving them free housing and healthcare).

By: mox

mox — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:59:01 +0000

crazy… something stalin would of approved.