An illegal alien can work, only if the emplyoer breaks the law. The illegal alien, who is found working gets deported for being an illegal alien, not because he was working. The student becomes an illegal alien by violating the terms of his admission as a student (unless it's a tech school with work options [or something to that effect], or it is during a break such as summer off).

And yes it is all very confusing, made even more so by the constant meddling of our lawmakers. Remember, all of the fine tuning done to these laws is usually to benefit a small portion of the population, be it the lawmakers constituants (farmers in the farm belt, big industry in the industrial regions) or their own personal agenda. In 1986 Messers Simpson and Mazzouli (sp??) reformed immigration and created the first ever "amnesty" for illegal aliens. The idea was to legalize all of the illegal alien farm workers, so they could openly work the fields without fear of being stopped, questioned and removed from the country. S&M were from the farm regions.

What happened was, all of the illegal who got papers, decided they could now seek a better life in town, quit their low paying farm work (or demanded better pay and were fired), moved to town and got "regular" work. That left the farmers without any farm hands. So, S&M came through yet again and created a "special" class of aliens called Replacement Agricultural Workers. All of this was done under the guise of ending illegal immigration, what it did was show the U.S.'s soft furry underbelly - come illegally, stay as long as possible and Uncle Sam will give you papers.

Now they talk of a new amnesty. Oh joy.

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.