Consider the real costs of immigration crackdown

“OK, you anti-immigration isolationist flag-wavers out there, lets assume for a minute that we do things your way and deny 12 million undocumented workers a reasonable path to U.S. citizenship. Let me tell you why that would not only be unfair, but also would affect your own interests.

First, forget the 1968 riots in Los Angeles, or the 1980 violence in Miamis Liberty City. You would be creating an underclass of alienated aliens like the Muslim youths that carried out the French Intifada in the suburbs of Paris in 2005 — only much worse. You would have 12 million second-class citizens — mostly Hispanics — who would not only be disenfranchised from mainstream society, but who would be legally barred from aspiring to join it. That would be a recipe for frustration, anger and rebellion.”

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