Folks have argued immigration reform to a mind-numbing fare-the-well, changing few minds, I suspect, but here’s a thought experiment: If you transport drugs in your car or cook them in your house, the Gummint will confiscate your wheels or your digs. Suppose they confiscated and auctioned off businesses that make a practice of hiring illegal immigrants?
I suspect legal scholars would promptly discover that civil confiscation violates due process, the number of businesses hiring illegals would decline rapidly, and the clandestine economy would grow . . . Whether border-crossing would decline, ¿Quién sabe?
Like I say, just a thought experiment, like Schrödinger’s cat.
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The cat thing is too abstract for me right now - can't quite get my brain around it yet. Guess I'll have to just test it out myself. Does it matter how I kill / half-kill the cat? Maybe I can hire an illegal immigrant to do it for me.
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