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Maybe this country can make undocumented life so miserable as to extinguish all hope in an immigrant's heart.
ICE roundups, Soni pointed out, make undocumented immigrants less likely to report forced labor conditions.
Instead, my intent here is to highlight that the president has many tools at his disposal to provide temporary relief to immigrants in the U.S. A series of executive orders could make undocumented immigrants eligible for administrative relief and work authorization.
However, immigration remains a sore point with Romney for many, particularly among Hispanic voters, because the former Massachusetts governor has advocated a "self-deportation" approach that aims to make undocumented immigrants uncomfortable enough to leave on their own.
That policy is, to oversimplify a bit, don't ask, don't tell — if a company using silver particles as an anti-microbial agent doesn't make undocumented health claims, the E.P.A. isn't going to ask for data showing it complies with the pesticide laws, absent some evidence that real environmental damage is occurring.
This became another immigration flash point, however, more due to rhetoric than substance; "self-deportation" was mostly a dozen state laws like SB 1070 designed to make undocumented immigrants miserable, such as making it a crime for an undocumented immigrant to look for a job, harsh penalties for businesses that hire undocumented immigrants, denying driver's licenses, etc.
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S.B. 1070 effectively makes undocumented status a crime under state law and penalizes unauthorized employment.
Arizona's harsh anti-immigrant laws made undocumented victims afraid to coöperate with law enforcement on prosecutions, and, as long as the country continued to rely on immigrant labor while giving workers few avenues for legal entry, extortionists would have access to a consistent supply of prey.
But then the California legislature passed a bill making undocumented aliens eligible for driver's licenses, and Governor Davis signed it, and Schwarzenegger denounced it.
In a modest way, Mr. Beachy helped the local economy, making undocumented loans on a handshake to the owners of a bakery and a popular noodle company, who paid him back when they could.
Perversely, by making undocumented workers more vulnerable, the tough immigration policy makes them more desirable to many employers, thereby tilting the playing field even more drastically against Americans and immigrants who are working legally.
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