Here are 10 steps to fix illegal immigration ? Will this plan achive our goal to end illegal immigration ?
Many backers of comprehensive immigration will tell you that an enforcement first bill won't have the votes to pass. Well, first off, the same apparently could be said of a comprehensive immigration bill, which has now failed twice to gather the votes it needs to make it through.
Furthermore, how can it be that an enforcement first bill cannot pass when everyone from Ted Kennedy, to Harry Reid, to Lindsey Graham, to Michael Chertoff says that they support enforcing our immigration laws and securing the border? Let's put together a package, put it to a vote, and let the American people see who's interested in curtailing illegal immigration and preventing terrorists from walking across our borders -- and who's not.
#2) We need to build the fence: We need to build all 854 miles of fencing along the border. Although that will not, in and of itself, secure the border, the fencing will act as a force multiplier that will make the jobs of border patrol agents much easier.
#3) We need to fully staff our border patrol: Simply put, the border patrol, especially with no fence in place, does not have the manpower to adequately cover our southern and northern borders. Building the fence will help, but the number of border patrol agents needs to continue to increase.
#4) We need to fully staff Citizenship and Immigration Services: The agency that is in charge of handling legal immigration, Citizenship and Immigration Services, is poorly run, staggeringly undermanned, and working with obsolete equipment. This leads to enormous amounts of red tape for legal immigrants, poor security screening of people coming to this country legally, and an enormous number of people who come here legally and overstay their visas. This situation desperately needs to be corrected not only to help stop illegal immigrants, but because it's horribly unfair to the people who are doing the right thing and coming to this country legally.
#5)We need an exit visa program: 40% of the people who are in this country illegally have simply overstayed their visas. This will be an unsolvable problem, especially with Citizenship and Immigration Services being such a disaster area, until we put an effective exit visa system in place that will allow us to know when people have left the country.
#6) We need to take away the "jobs magnet:" The majority of illegals who are coming here are doing so in order to get jobs. If you take away the jobs, you will dramatically cut down on the number of illegals coming to this country -- and most of the illegals who are here will self-deport.
To do this, we need to improve the current employment eligibility verification system and we need to move beyond a test program to nationwide usage. Additionally, we need to dramatically increase the monetary and criminal penalties for deliberately hiring illegals. Most of the businessmen knowingly hiring illegals today are doing so because it's low risk and high reward. If you change that equation and turn knowingly hiring illegals into an activity that is likely to result in steep financial penalties and/or prison time, the "jobs magnet" will turn off.
#7) No more anchor babies: Today, if a 9 month pregnant illegal alien sneaks across the border and has a baby 2 minutes later, the child is an American citizen, the mother is eligible to receive government benefits on his behalf, and the child is an "anchor" that the mother can use to make it tougher to remove her from the country. This needs to change.
Some people think it would take a constitutional amendment to pull that off. That was once my opinion as well, but the relevant portion of the 14th Amendment of the United States actually says,
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside..."
Many people, myself included, believe that illegal aliens are "subject to the jurisdiction" of the nation they come from, not the United States, which means that we could pass a law that prevents the children of illegals from becoming an American citizen without a constitutional Amendment.
#8) We need to put an end to sanctuary cities and drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens: If cities refuse to follow federal law in regard to illegals by becoming sanctuary cities or, if states severely undermine our ability to catch illegals (and simultaneously make it easy for them to commit voter fraud) by allowing them to have drivers’ licenses, the federal government should retaliate by cutting federal funds to that city and state until they change their minds.
#9) Refuse to allow anyone caught in the United States illegally to ever become a citizen or return for any reason: This would give illegals who may want to become citizens, participate in a future guest worker program, or even visit relatives in the United States a strong incentive to make sure that they follow the law -- and it would also strongly discourage illegals who might be tempted to come here to get in on some future "amnesty" -- since all it would take would be getting caught one time to put an end to any hope of a legal future in the United States.
#10) End catch and release: Despite what you may have heard to the contrary, when illegal aliens are caught by local police, oftentimes, the Feds refuse to take the illegal alien off their hands. That means that once the illegal is released, he blends right back into the crowd.
Another asinine practice is capturing illegal aliens and simply releasing them with a summons to appear in court. Of course, almost no one ever shows up since the penalty for being here illegally is deportation. No illegal alien captured by our government should ever be allowed his freedom until after he is deported. If that means we need more manpower, more beds, or to hold them in local prisons until they can be sent home, so be it, but it is extremely foolish to catch an illegal alien and then just let him go.
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Brilliant common sense ideas.
We need a challenge to the Supreme Court re anchor babies. The original SC case involved parents legally here, not illegals. The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to assure citizenship to freed slaves and their descendents. The US is one of few nations remaining with birthright citizenship for children born to illegal aliens. This needs to change. Also, since many of these illegals apply to their consulates for support when caught and face deportment, they themselves are claiming jurisdiction from their home nation. The Mexican government is also reaffirming their jurisdiction over their illegal aliens here by protesting to our government over the failure of the bill to pass and against the bills currently under consideration in the House.
The border between the US and Mexico is much longer than 800 plus miles. The entire border needs secured. So does the Canadian border afterwards.
I would add #11: Stop all free educational, free health care
and social services to illegal aliens and households that harbor them.
Concurrently implementing all these ideas would be extremely effective. Many illegal aliens would self-deport.
No. The Bush Immigration Reform bill is better. He knows better than you do.
How about phasing out the Federal Reserve Bank while introducing currency backed by silver and/or gold once again. reestablish our "constitutional representative republic" while at the same time getting rid of the IRS? NO AMNESTY NEEDED. FREEDOM RESTORED. case closed?
#6 needs to be moved up, probably to #1 - enforcement won't work as long as such a powerful economic incentive is in place.
And, 7, in spite of your claim, is unconstitutional.
Asside from that, not bad.
That's not a question. That's an immigration bill!
Get a blog!
I like it. It is well thought out and good for the U.S.. I say you take you case to some higher ups. Maybe we should start a lobby of our own to counter act the special interest groups and the pitiful ACLU. I for one would vote for your bill as long as we can deport Ted Kennedy.
It would end virtually all illegal immigration (IF) you added #11 from cj_sez above. But thats the reason that our politicians would NEVER allow it to become law. The dems don't want an end to illegals because they see future dem voters and could care less if it bankrupts the country as long as they are in charge. The repubs want illegals so that they can artificially drive down wages and big business gets slave laborers.
Anyone who believes that either party, except for a few honest ones, care about US they are living with their head in the same cloud as Michael Jackson.
This plan is weak and ill conceived. First of all, if you eliminate the 12 million or so jobs that are done by undocumented aliens each year, you destroy the American economy. Second you also have to frank an open discussions with Mexico about their exit visa policy. Did you realize that to enter the US legally from Mexico that it requires education, money, and connections? It is also discriminatory to say that we should not allow undocumented women give birth in this country. Many undocumented aliens work, pay their taxes (as they don't claim their refunds on their taxes they actually pay more than their share). Did you know that Latinos are least percentage wise on welfare. Caucasians are the most percentage wise on welfare. I know personally many undocumented aliens, and the ones I know just want to work each day, and support their families to the best of their ability.
I approve!
I agree, especially #7. It has been misused by the illlegals and our government for so long. These people are not Americans how can they be under our jurisdiction? They certainly don't abide by any of our other laws, do they?
I'm glad to see someone with ideas to try to make things better. Unfortunately, I don't think we could get away with #7 but if these other things were implemented, we probably wouldn't need to worry.
Write to your congressmen, seriously, it couldn't hurt
Sounds like the best idea I have seen yet. As for # 7 the government is already on it and their interpretation is the same as yours that just to be here and have a child does not give you the right to remain here. Your child is a citizen but you are not. Are you not reading the news our government at this time is capturing illegals and is giving the adults the option to take their children with them when they are deported or to make arrangements for them to stay with friends or family. The state I live in is one of the states that give away drivers license like candy. Illegals come from all over the United States to get one from us because it's that easy. I won't mention the state but I know all the illegals know which one it is . People should check out their states standards to get a drivers license and raise cane with their state legislators to force them to set a more appropriate standard. A higher standard you have to meet, which if you fail to do so you forfeit your license prior to its expiration even to get things staightened out. You should also have to offer more proof to vote and again make all of reprove our eligibility to weed out the illegals.
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