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The President is saying that they would contribute to some kind of fund that they could draw on after their return. Given the President's record it will be mandatory, no employer contribution and guess what, it will be to a privatized stock market account benefiting the Prez's large contributors. At the end of six years it will be Hey Pablo, when you get back to Mexico have your brother call me and I'll get him a worker registration card.

The guarantee the President proposes is that employers will post jobs on a government web site and if no potential employee wants to provide that service for that wage the employer would be free to hire an immigrant. The result will be when any campaign contributor has union problems, disgruntled employees because of working conditions or people fed up with being exploited, the jobs will be posted on the government site. In other words it will be something like this:

Wanted: Coal Miner, 12 hr/day, 7 days/week, salaried position (no overtime), no healthcare, no retirement, no vacation $432/wk.
Wanted: Computer Programmer, Masters Degree Required, 20k/yr, no benefits.
ETC.

Don't forget conservatives worship Reagan. Remember him the man who fired all of the air traffic controllers, decertified their union and forbade the rehiring of anyone who was fired. It will be Capitalist Nirvana, immigrants and Americans willing to cut each other's throats to work at slave wages for any job available. And we wonder why the Republicans don't want to allow federal funding overseas to go birth control.

Real Solutions

If the President and the country want real solutions then they must take steps that deal with the causes and problems of immigration. Those would include:

1) Fair Trade Agreements that actually benefit the broad populations of a country not just a few multinational companies and the controlling elite in the governments of those countries.
2) Advocate for Real Democracy - End the interference in the internal affairs of countries where active populist movements are trying to bring more equity and freedom to people.
3) Development Assistance Stop the consolidation of money and power in a few hands and help countries to develop local economies.
4) Sharing the Wealth Paying living wages in both this country and abroad.
5) Requiring Employers to be Legal Instituting civil and criminal penalties for hiring illegal aliens and enforcing them.
6) Treating Aliens Right If after Americans are employed at decent wages there are jobs left, allow registered legal migration and give those people the opportunity to bring their families and become citizens following the naturalization process. This is a country of immigrants and we need to honor that tradition.

These are the real solutions. Will they happen? Probably not until workers around the world realize they are all being exploited and join forces to stop it. Until then the Minutemen will be exploited for political gain, the aliens for economic gain and the rest of us will suffer the consequences.

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