"If we had a more lawful construction sector, if the rule of law applied there would be more construction and more construction jobs, taxpayers would not be paying in excess of 30% more for projects like this".
He can give the jobs of deportation and border control back to the federal government and concentrate on making things safer and more lawful in his community.
The fact is though that solving crimes is how you build something long term that leads to a more lawful society.
This latest show continues to exploring the questions of exchange, rules and social convention sparked by that work (albeit this time in a more lawful fashion).
More than two decades of advocacy by laborers and civil-rights groups have pointed to a better way: building a more lawful and orderly day-labor market, with hiring sites and enforcement aimed at protecting, not violating, workers' rights.
Still, it says something about the Mafia's commitment to controlling certain cash-rich environments that prosecutors believe it has managed to survive where other, more lawful businesses have not.
As for reform, the Republican Party has spent much of the last decade beating back efforts to streamline the system or to make life for the undocumented easier, fairer, safer or more lawful.
The thinking went that charging and fining corporations, instead of the people working at them, would force a company to change its ways and lead to more lawful behavior.
Advocates for the change said it will create a more lawful atmosphere in immigrant communities and reduce the fear of deportation, which often prevents people from reporting crimes or seeking help with problems.
Instead, after the Supreme Court ruled that year that prisoners needed to be treated humanely in compliance with the Geneva Conventions, the C.I.A. was forced to turn its special detainees over to the military for detention and interrogation using more lawful tactics in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Even tougher than the outright violence is the slow destruction of idealists — be they in journalism, medicine, intellectual life, government or just in search of a more lawful Mexican society — who think they can escape the long shadow of this ugliness, and who one after another are proved horribly wrong.
