How To Reduce Illegal Immigration

Want to know how to diminish the illegal alien presence in the workplace? Go after the employers. It's working in Arizona, after Gov. Janet Napolitano signed a new law that will take effect in January 2008:

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of undocumented workers have been fired as a result of Arizona businesses reviewing the work-eligibility forms of their employees as the state's new employer-sanctions law draws near.

The fired workers couldn't provide missing information uncovered during the reviews or confessed to being in the country illegally, say attorneys involved in the reviews.

Opponents are whining about constitutionality and profiling, but read this:

Eligio Medina Roldan, 44, is one of those workers who lost his job. The undocumented immigrant from Mexico City had been working at a Phoenix warehouse for the past four years using fake documents. Earlier this month, a supervisor from the company's corporate headquarters in Texas questioned him about some of the information he provided on the I-9 form. Medina Roldan said he was given eight days to prove he was legally eligible to work in the U.S. or he would lose his job.

"I don't have papers that show I can work legally, so I won't be able to work," he said. "And I can't work, then I've lost the reason for being here. My only option is to go back" to Mexico.

Bingo!!!

But don't worry about worker shortages - the Center for Immigration Studies indicates there are more than enough Americans ready to step in.

It's what we conservatives have been saying for a long, long time: take away the magnet, and the problem goes away by itself.

There's my two cents.