Immigration Reform: Is this a Good Idea?
Illegals come here because their own countries are filled with poverty and corruption!
Many of us know that a large portion of legal and illegal immigrants send money home to their families in Mexico/etc. Many even hope to return home and retire there with economic security.
Why not foster this? Why not create Border Banking system that will help illegals invest in local programs, pay a 'service tax' to private, local companies that can bypass the corrupt local beauracracies. This would, over time, help to heal the poverty and create more schools, power plants, etc, all created through privately funded programs.
If my plan works, the illegal immigrants would eventually feel it worthwhile to go back home, where their motherland economies and municipals would be better off!
(the potential for a 'path to citizenship' would still be necessary)
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That was my thought exactly, the "American" people solved NOTHING by blocking this immigration reform. We will spend another 3 to 10 years with illegal immigration following the same patters it has been for the last century.
It's very stupid when you read all these people complaining (Whining I should say) on how,
"illegal aliens are leeches, they take our jobs, get free education, free health care, they don't pay taxes, they're criminals, they drain our system " BUT nothing is being done to fix this problem .... OR CURRENTS LAWS WILL NOT BE ENFORCED . I GUARANTEE IT!
A lot of these people take everything for granted everything we have here. Nice homes, nice cars, good education, electricity, WATER, --- and you are able to get all these things IF YOU TRY HARD ENOUGH.
Let me ask you a question, when an "american" person sees another person- (who is of different ethnicity) ...let's say a hispanic - driving a better car than him ... he gets pissed off! why? because he's been here all his life and can not even afford to buy a used car! Why is the other person driving a better car? Because a lot of times this person is working 2 or even 3 jobs to get what he wants and get to where he wants to be. Yet the "american" expects for everything to be handed to him.
I am by no means categorizing every american into this , because I must admit that I know many of them who work their @s$ off. BUT there's always those people who are lazy and expect everything to be handed to them ... Do these people deserve to be called american? Not in my dictionary!
I think it's a sweet thought, but it will never happen. What we need to do is beef up border security, fine the jerks that are hiring them, and send the criminal illegal element home.
We need to look at each situation on a separate basis. I think some people should be allowed to stay. It just depends on the situation.
We do not need any 'reform', just enforce the damn laws we have on the books.
I think that mexico is hurt as much as America is by illegal border crossing. Until it's people are willing to take back their governemnt from corruption, economics will never get any better there.
Mexico has wonderful natural resources and a good supply of workers.
The two main things holding them back is corruption and education.
I believe Sen. Kennedy made a point in his debate that illegals send 40 billion dollars back to THEIR home, not investing it into OUR country and doing their part. They need to stay home and with the help of THEIR president and citizens clean up their own country themselves. I am tired of holding other countries hands.
Good try. But sounds like another give away program. What we need is to
1) Close our borders with fencing and have an effective enforcement of our immigration laws.
2) Empower all law enforcement to arrest illegals. Finding 20 million illegals would be a huge drain, but picking them up for traffic viloations, shop lifting, etc. and arresting them and sending them immediately home would get the message across.
3) If a city refuses to participate in enforcing the law, cut off all federal funds to the city and state they are in. We should even jail those who believe in setting up sanctuary cities.
What I think was the problem with that bill is that Americans are against illegal immigration for reasons. For example 1) it strains and overcrowds schools and severly impacts our own children's education in areas where illegal immigrants concentrate; 2) it drains hospitals to the point where they close denying services to our own poorest residents and making them more expensive and more cursory for our middle class; 3) it drives down wages by sending vast numbers of laborers after the same jobs. Those are only some impacts, but on many they are severe impacts.
A government protecting our interests would be trying to address those impacts and stop the problem AT LEAST GOING FORWARD. Those are the reason a VAST majority are against illegal immigration.
MAYBE if they addressed those impacts people would say that those not twice illegal or in gangs could stay, because it would be a 'one time thing' -- once they KNEW the problem were stopped going forward.
Instead, what happened is business said 'if we got illegal immigration numbers as an added immigration quota, we could drive down wages more efficiently and keep the criminal element out better because then we'd be willing to have an effective program to check ID.' However, the numbers aren't a 'quota' to be continued in the future, they are numbers that are ruining our children's schools, draining service funds and buckling our infrastructure HERE. Not in Mexico. OUR expense OFFSETS expense Mexico would have, and these people take their wages out of our economy and send them back, already.
The problem with the bill is it didn't focus at all on solving the problems of illegal immigration. It would not have stopped it, and would have added the 'quota' equaling current illegal immigration on top of that as new legal immigration. Note that this exacerbates, and does not solve the problem.
It is our country and our laws and before deciding the 'fix' is to give money to other countries and let in more, they should remember the problem is failing services HERE and too great numbers HERE and address those issues.
This bill did not, hence all the questions regarding whom, exactly, our representatives were representing.
Nice thought, but the only thing that will work is showing these people they have no rights coming into our country illegally.
Enforce and deport.
The only way, these people somehow think working a low wage job for a year or so is grounds for American rights and citizenship.
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