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...Mexicans wait for nightfall, when they can slip silently through the shadows. But over the past week they have been looking beyond the Border Patrol at a more threatening obstacle to their hope of finding jobs in the U.S.: the passage by Congress of the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill...
...finally passed into law, Simpson-Mazzoli would make it harder for Mexicans and other job seekers from Latin America to enter the U.S. illegally. Although the bill would ultimately grant permanent residency to many of those already in the U.S. illegally, new border crossers would find it much tougher to find jobs because employers of more than three such workers would be liable for fines of up to $2,000 for each so-called illegal they hire. The men who wait in Tijuana scoff at the idea that the threat of fines will inhibit employers from hiring them as long...
...Simpson-Mazzoli's defenders think it can eventually slow, if not stop, the influx of new illegal immigrants, but concede that it will take time and increased enforcement (the bill would also beef up the budget for border patrols and the INS). The principal argument of the supporters is an unenthusiastic one: the bill represents the only kind of compromise that can pass Congress. In their view, the alternative is to do nothing and let an intolerable situation get worse...
...wants. If their wages and living conditions seem substandard to many Americans, they are sufficiently better than those available in the aliens' homelands so that the immigrants keep coming, in numbers that even police-state controls would be hard put to stop. Indeed, to the extent that Simpson-Mazzoli succeeds in slowing the stream, it might replace one problem with another: new strains in U.S. relations with Mexico. The outflow of workers functions as a kind of safety valve for that country, providing an escape for people who cannot be usefully employed in the Mexican economy and would contribute...
That case has not been widely persuasive even among the U.S. Hispanic community, which is generally somewhat ambivalent about Simpson-Mazzoli despite the vehement protests of its leaders. Several recent polls of Hispanics turn up substantial support for many of the bill's provisions, including employer sanctions. Like other citizens, these respondents apparently view the tide of illegal immigration, rightly or wrongly, as a threat to both the jobs and wages available to legal residents. Also like other citizens, many of them worry about the capacity of the U.S. to absorb, economically and socially, an uncontrolled flow of aliens...