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Mar 09, 2006 3:17 PM
The Illegal Economy
One in twenty American workers is undocumented, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center. That's 12 million people.On its face, this is the biggest criminal conspiracy of all time -- the population of Bombay, India, is working illegally in our midst. And we're all complicit: every one of us, whether we're eating in a restaurant, enjoying a tomato or an apple or a glass of wine, of just shopping at Wal Mart.
You're telling me that a guest-worker program is going to solve this?
(Trivia: 12 million people is also the yearly population growth in China and the number of AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa.)