Everyone here would be legal. Everyone here would be equal. Everyone here would feel wanted. No one here would feel the urge to run every time a police car appeared at the end of the street.

All the attendant problems with undocumented workers would disappear. Racial profiling would plummet as much as honesty would skyrocket. Taxes would rise. Thousands of people would get a raise.

And no one would need a driver privilege card — making SB227 just one more obsolete law on the books gathering dust.

That's providing, of course, that we finally wise up and do the right thing and commit, from now on, to strictly enforce the immigration laws that have been ignored for far too long and created the current mess in the first place.

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