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Jewish World Review April 12, 2006 / 14 Nissan, 5766 Immigration debate, un-spun By Robert Robb http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Immigration notes: The numbers at the immigration marches were remarkably impressive. They have been, as organizers claim, historic events. The question is whether they will have historic effects: Will they alter the course of public policy? I remain skeptical. Organizers make the analogy to the civil rights marches. The difference, however, is that the defenders of segregation had no real moral high ground on which to stand. Immigration restrictionists do. While it may not be practical, supporting the rule of law and opposing giving benefits to those who have violated the country's immigration laws certainly constitutes a respectable, comfortable and defensible moral position. I suspect that the remarkable numbers being amassed across the country will actually solidify support for securing the borders more than it will increase empathy for the plight of those who have taken advantage of America's lax enforcement of its immigration laws. Some number of those previously disengaged are likely to see these huge marches as a wakeup call for the need to enforce the border before it is too late. According to organizers, these marches mark the awakening of the Latino community as a political force that will have a larger effect on election outcomes. If Arizona is an indication, in the short run this too is doubtful. According to exit polls, Latinos constituted 12 percent of the Arizona electoral turnout in 2004. According to the Census Bureau, Latinos constitute about 25 percent of Arizona's population. So, that would certainly seem to indicate a large potential for the expansion of the Latino vote. If the Pew Hispanic Center's numbers are to be believed, however, at least a third of the Latino population in Arizona is illegal and therefore ineligible to vote. Moreover, a larger percentage of the Latino population is underage and also ineligible to vote. The scrubbed numbers suggest that, at least in the short run, there isn't really that much of an increase in the Latino vote to be had. For the foreseeable political future, the Latino vote will be pivotal in Arizona only in a very close election, and only if it breaks overwhelmingly in one direction. The latter is also unlikely, particularly among the subset of Latinos who vote, and even on immigration issues. According to one exit poll, 47 percent of them voted in favor of Proposition 200, which restricted state benefits to illegal immigrants and required proof of citizenship to register to vote. Immigration restrictionists are concentrating on the wrong thing in their opposition to some sort of legal status for current illegal immigrants. There are simply too many poignant stories of lives productively settled here and family breakups that deportation would cause. Moreover, the United States has been complicit in its failure to make any serious attempt to enforce its immigration laws, particularly in the workplace. Yes, current illegal immigrants broke the law. But sometimes the law has to bend to reflect reality. Hernando de Soto has a chapter in his seminal book, The Mystery of Capital, that traces the settlement of the western United States as a series of legal adjustments to the extra-legal settlements that had already been established. Instead the focus should be on reducing the pace of future immigration among the relatively uneducated and unskilled. That is the real problem with the McCain-Kennedy proposal, and the compromise that the Senate was prepared to pass. Currently, it is estimated that approximately 400,000 unskilled workers enter the country illegally each year. McCain-Kennedy simply makes that entire number legal, through a guest worker program. There is no real economic evidence that the American economy needs that kind of a consistent increase in unskilled labor. In fact, the real wages of native workers without a high school education are declining and those of native workers with just a high school education are stagnant, suggesting there is already an oversupply. Practical and sensible immigration reform would give legal status to those already here but try to slow the pace of future unskilled immigration. There is also elevated unemployment among entry-level native workers. That's what makes the rhetoric of immigration liberals that immigrants only take jobs Americans won't do troubling. That suggests that there are some jobs that are beneath Americans, that Americans in fact should not be expected to do. That, in turn, suggests a caste system of sorts for the country, which has always been an American anathema. It also indicates the development of a welfare state entitlement attitude among native workers, which leads to the sort of sluggish economic performance that currently characterizes Western Europe. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. JWR contributor Robert Robb is a columnist for The Arizona Republic. Comment by clicking here. Robert Robb Archives © 2006, The Arizona Republic

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