Instead of a border fence?
In addition, we already have illegals coming in from the Caribbean via the Gulf and Atlantic coastlines. There are also Asians that use Trans-Pacific transportation to get in on the western shoreline. Meanwhile in Canada, there are terror cells forming to devise ways to get in from the largely unprotected northern border.
And the really bad news? The majority of illegal immigrants that are here now, came to the U.S. legally and overstayed their visas. Shouldn't we immediately cease all air, sea and land traffic indefinitely and begin construction on an unbreakable, nuclear missile proof glass dome with air holes that would completely encase the USA, and once and for all solve the immigration problem? Nobody in; Nobody out!
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you're thinking! I don't agree with the whole no one in or out because I like traveling but your right. A fence WILL NOT WORK! you can get over it, through it and AROUND IT! (PENN AND TELLER DID A SPECIAL ABOUT THIS ISSUE)
think about it the terrorist of 9-11 where here ON visas and the Canadian border is basically...well there is no border! not like the one between us and Mexico! we will always have an immigration issue until we make your bubble!
I dig it !
Speaking for the rest of the world...Yes Please
mmm no,mine the border
better than what we have now. Instead of a fence, machine guns. Cheaper and more effective.
Well the fence will work fine next question?
HAHAHA-interesting suggestion.
Excellent idea!! A glass bubble with air holes. After I finish making my time machine out of a delorean I'll get started on this.
The wall is a start,and if our politicians were sincere it would be like the wall Israeli uses to keep them safe from the counties that want to blow them up. As to the others that over stay their visa or come by sea, maybe a one year jail term would take the arrogance out of their cavalier attitude about their right to come and make light of our immigration laws
notify me before you build the freedom-bubble because Ill make sure id be the first one out...
Good, grief! Why don't we all simply use the brains we have, and stop illegals from drifting in and out of our country! There is too much buddy-buddy nonsense going on between the mexican government, and our pResident.
I'd say that was a bit much. I do agree that we have a security problem with people who are in this country that needs to be addressed. We need to make it a felony to hire illegals then they would have to go home. Those who hire illegals make enough to pay the fine. They are compromising our borders. They are aiding tax evasion and most likely evading taxes themselves. We also need to stop giving aid meant for Americans in trouble not those living for free in this country.
Wrong, the majority of illegal aliens illegally came into this country from Mexico. Only about 4 million are here because they overstayed their visas. I got those figures from Lou Dobbs tonight.
The United States, as does every nation on earth, has the right as a sovereign nation to control its borders, deport all of those who are here illegally and to arrest those who aid and abet illegal aliens. WHAT IS IT ABOUT THOSE FACTS THAT YOU LIBERALS DO NOT UNDERSTAND!
Let's build the fence, deport all illegal aliens, make all foreigners have a tamper proof ID that they must keep with them at all times, and make it a felony punishable by 60 days in prison to be in this country illegally.
For those who say a fence will not work, go south of San Diego, and see for yourself.
Securing the border, does not necessarily mean a fence along the entire length of the borders. It means secure the border by any means available. When people commit acts of violence against our border agents, then that is an act of war. You don't reward people for committing crimes like that. Yes, our seaports are vulnerable also, but the government has stepped up and increased security there, and so has private industry that operate the ports, airports etc. As far as the Northern border, Canada has also stepped up, and they have security on their side. The BIG problem seems to be on the Southern Border, where the mexican government actually encourages their citizens to cross illegally and become criminals. Now, you tell us again, exactly where the problem is?
Illegal Immigrants are Paying a Lot More Taxes Than You Think
Eight million illegals pay Social Security, Medicare, and income taxes
By Shikha Dalmia
Denying public services to people who pay their taxes is an affront to America's bedrock belief in fairness. But many "pull-up-the-drawbridge" politicians want to do just that when it comes to illegal immigrants.
The fact that illegal immigrants pay taxes at all will come as news to many Americans. A stunning two-thirds of illegal immigrants pay Medicare, Social Security and personal income taxes. Yet, nativists like Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., have popularized the notion that illegal aliens are a colossal drain on the nation's hospitals, schools and welfare programs — consuming services that they don't pay for.
In reality, the 1996 welfare reform bill disqualified illegal immigrants from nearly all means-tested government programs including food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid and Medicare-funded hospitalization. The only services that illegals can still get are emergency medical care and K-12 education.
Nevertheless, Tancredo and his ilk pushed a bill through the House criminalizing all aid to illegal aliens — even private acts of charity by priests, nurses and social workers. Potentially, any soup kitchen that offers so much as a free lunch to an illegal could face up to five years in prison and seizure of assets.
The Senate bill that recently collapsed would have tempered these draconian measures against private aid. But no one — Democrat or Republican — seems to oppose the idea of withholding public services. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law that requires everyone who gets Medicaid — the government-funded health care program for the poor — to offer proof of U.S. citizenship so we can avoid "theft of these benefits by illegal aliens," as Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., puts it.
But, immigrants aren't flocking to the United States to mooch off the government. According to a study by the Urban Institute, the 1996 welfare reform effort dramatically reduced the use of welfare by undocumented immigrant households, exactly as intended. And another vital thing happened in 1996: the Internal Revenue Service began issuing identification numbers to enable illegal immigrants who don't have Social Security numbers to file taxes.
One might have imagined that those fearing deportation or confronting the prospect of paying for their safety net through their own meager wages would take a pass on the IRS' scheme. Not so. Close to 8 million of the 12 million or so illegal aliens in the country today file personal income taxes using these numbers, contributing billions to federal coffers. No doubt they hope that this will one day help them acquire legal status — a plaintive expression of their desire to play by the rules and come out of the shadows.
What's more, aliens who are not self-employed have Social Security and Medicare taxes automatically withheld from their paychecks. Since undocumented workers have only fake numbers, they'll never be able to collect the benefits these taxes are meant to pay for. Last year, the revenues from these fake numbers — that the Social Security administration stashes in the “earnings suspense file” — added up to 10 percent of the Social Security surplus. The file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year.
Beyond federal taxes, all illegals automatically pay state sales taxes that contribute toward the upkeep of public facilities such as roads that they use, and property taxes through their rent that contribute toward the schooling of their children. The non-partisan National Research Council found that when the taxes paid by the children of low-skilled immigrant families — most of whom are illegal — are factored in, they contribute on average $80,000 more to federal coffers than they consume.
Yes, many illegal migrants impose a strain on border communities on whose doorstep they first arrive, broke and unemployed. To solve this problem equitably, these communities ought to receive the surplus taxes that federal government collects from immigrants. But the real reason border communities are strained is the lack of a guest worker program. Such a program would match willing workers with willing employers in advance so that they wouldn't be stuck for long periods where they disembark while searching for jobs.
The cost of undocumented aliens is an issue that immigrant bashers have created to whip up indignation against people they don't want here in the first place. Politicians ought to set the record straight: Illegals are not milking the government. If anything, it is the other way around.
and the meaning is?
Just hire the Mexicans trying to come across the border to patrol the border . You could probably hire 20 Mexicans for what you pay one American for that would be 19 more per one border pat role guy at the end of there shift they can go home problem solved . Just think of the money that would be saved . Some time you have to fight fire with fire
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