On the whole are illegal immigrants like slaves things, a lot of you are pointing out that many if not most illegal immigrants face serious mistreatment at the hands of their employers due to their lack of meaningful legal rights. Wholly agreed. It’s worth noting, though, that Rep. Sensenbrenner doesn’t propose to do anything about it. An enforcement-only approach to immigration will take current illegals from being in a bad situation to a worse one. Redressing very legitimate concerns about the treatment of otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants is one reason to support the approach Sensenbrenner rejects — one that would make it relatively easy for illegals without criminal records to get on the path to citizenship with appropriate payment of back taxes and some kind of fine.
At any rate, Sensenbenner’s one of the good guys on the net neutrality issue, so maybe he wants to bust out with an inappropriate analogy in that regard.
