Immigration volunteer quest program will supply cheap labor for the global market

There may have been a shift in the immigration debate in who gets amnesty for those coming to the United States from Mexico. A much shorter list for amnesty is argued for those who are already here that have learned English; instead of the broad net of inclusion that involves the 11 million + undocumented Latino population.

This will attract other English speaking Latinos, to cross the border into citizenship, if speaking English will get you on the fast track, and does little to secure the borders.

Amnesty is just an excuse for the United States refusal to enforce sanctions against those companies that hire unauthorized workers. Sanction is a much better solution. By failing to sanction those businesses, jobs at these businesses become a magnet enticing more unauthorized workers to skirt the law. Forget about Americans not taking these jobs, sounds more like the United States willingness to compete in the globalization of cheap laborers.

In addition, the United States' attempt at regulating the population growth of non- English speaking unauthorized workers by with its limited amnesty program, quest workers, deportation and English sounds as difficult as their problem of finding Bin Laden. But, who cares we got Saddam Hussein to blame for the terrorist attack. Now let's lock up some more folks, because they are not citizens, forget forgo their access to the court.

Because the border crossing numbers are swelling yearly and the closeness of the United States, Homeland Security sense of security appears to be tinged with a lack of judicial process for new borders crossers (no longer wanting to make them felons) but still criminals and for those who are already here, they are not exempt from deportation camps and can be charged with supporting the new arrivals without a hearing.

This reminds me of the court shutting its doors to the border crossing of Dred Scott from the north back to the south. Scott's right to travel was geographically denied. Nevertheless, Scott born in the United States was denied his day in court because he was not considered a citizen. Scott was an African-American, during a time when an African-American were declared criminals on the spot for being in the wrong place.

Perhaps that is why the streets are full of peaceful marching legal citizens and unauthorized others who are decrying the fact that not only will their property be taken if charged with supporting new arrivals, but so will their due process to the courts to challenge such an injustice.

How many Spanish-speaking judges do we have on sitting on our benches? Probably less than the number of teachers, who speak Spanish, Burmese, or any of the African languages attempting to teach children who speak different languages in the public schools? How often do we get angry when a group began to speak a language and not a word is understood? Now, imagine the day-to-day experience of these students in the classroom unable to understand English or do simply math problems in English...just imagine.

So many issues, but one solution would be reasonable, and that would be to sanction companies that entice unauthorized workers to enter the United States. Then perhaps Americans will begin to take those jobs, because companies will not have anyone else to fill them.