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California Without a Mexican? (We Could Lose Some Bloggers)

By immigrationprof

Jacoby_color Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has a thoughtful op/ed in today’s L.A. Times  about the new workplace enforcement measures announced by the Bush admistration.  It begins:

“The 2004 film `A Day Without a Mexican’ was a political satire: an exaggerated fantasy about what would happen in California if all the immigrant workers suddenly disappeared. But now it seems that life may imitate art. Federal immigration authorities are readying a new enforcement tool that could indeed, if applied effectively, all but cripple the California economy. A new fence? A massive influx of Border Patrol agents? A fleet of airborne drones? No. The new weapon is a simple two-page letter that will go out next month to companies whose employees’ names and Social Security numbers do not match those on record at the Social Security Administration.”

KJ