[Sen. John] Cornyn [R-TX] supports work visa

WashTimes:

Senate Republicans' new point man on immigration said that it is unrealistic to assume that the 10 million illegal aliens in the United States can be deported and that the only alternative is to create a temporary worker program that has them come forward on their own...

At this point in time, you're probably thinking "same strawman, different suit." See the similar strawman argument made by the last suit, Asa Hutchinson, in the WashTimes interview Rounding up all illegals 'not realistic'.

..."The question is what about people who are here, have been here for 20 years, who have American children born in this country, who maybe have American spouses, and of course, we're going to need to work our way through that based on current law," he said...

*cough* amnesty *cough*

"In some respects, the closest analogy I can think of is Prohibition " Prohibition was passed, it was a law that did not enjoy the support of the masses, so people found a way to get around it by making gin in a bathtub or whatever, and so then we repealed that law and said 'OK, the best way to handle this is not to prohibit it but to regulate it,' " he said. "That seems to have worked reasonably well when it comes to alcohol consumption."

The same goes for heroin and PCP. John? Where'd he go? Anyway, employing illegals isn't like making bathtub gin. Those who employ illegal aliens have their speakeasys out in the public view, and they (most of the time) abide by other regulations like safety codes. If they don't, they know what happens. If there were enforcement against the large employers of illegal aliens, there wouldn't be such a problem. Sure, there would still be people making their own gin in their own bathtubs, for instance by hiring day laborers off the street. However, most of the prospective illegal aliens would take a hint and not try to sneak over our border.

But Mr. Cornyn said he thinks there are jobs out there that no American would fill because much of it is "hard, backbreaking manual labor that a lot of Americans are not interested in performing."

First, that's wrong as anyone who's been outside of their gated community can attest. And, it's un-American to assert that Americans are afraid of a little hard work. And, it's also un-American to depend on cheap stoop labor when we should be mechanizing and automating those labor-intensive industries. Remember: progress is ahead, and manoralism is away back there.

Previous Cornyn coverage here. He did, however, sign the letter to Bush complaining about his cutting of the SCAAP program.

UPDATE: I mistakenly identified him as a Representative in the title, now corrected.

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