Frum says it requires cracking down on the employers of illegal immigrants:
Today’s debate over a fence on the Mexican border is a distraction, and I’d suggest: a deliberate distraction. Any fence will be tangled in litigation: it took 11 years of lawyering to build just 14 miles of fence between San Diego and Tijuana. Enforcement must take place in the workplace – and that is precisely where the most powerful lobbies in US society wish to prevent it from occurring. I think it is powerfully symbolic that the most strident voice demanding a fence, lethally electrified no less, is that of Republican candidate for president Herman Cain – a past chief lobbyist for the National Restaurant Association, one of the most powerful of the anti-enforcement lobbies in Washington.
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