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There is no question that America has a range of difficult problems facing her; the economy, unemployment, Social Security, Medicare, and healthcare are pushing our great country to the brink. However, there is an underlying problem which is a contributing factor to all of these problems – illegal immigration.
The U.S. Government estimates that there are between 8 to 12 million illegal immigrants currently residing within our borders but independent studies have shown that number is significantly higher. The Californians for Population Study (CAPS) released a report by four leading immigration experts who believe that there is somewhere between 20 to 38 million illegal aliens in America[i]. Given the federal government’s penchant for under grossly underestimating numbers, there is a significant likelihood that the CAPS figure is closer to being accurate than the government’s estimate.
Regardless of which number is correct illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing America today, not, as the Obama administration recently asserted, akin to jaywalking[ii]. In fact, Fox News recently reported that illegal immigration currently costs American taxpayers an astonishing $113 billion per year[iii].
Further exacerbating the problem is that recent Census data shows that white children are now outnumbered by minority children in the United States. This is a decades old trend in which the Census Bureau has predicted that whites will become the new minority by 2042[iv] or sooner.
Latinos are leading this demographic shift. In the states that share a border with Mexico; Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California[v] – Hispanic children already outnumber whites and African Americans. Unbridled illegal immigration is partly to blame for the problem as well as all levels of government (federal, state, and local) affording illegal immigrants the same rights and privileges as American citizens.
So what is America to do to solve this ever-growing problem?
- Citizenship status shall be verified for all people in the United States by electronically verifying their Social Security or Green Card numbers when:
- i. When filing their annual tax return
- ii. Gaining Employment
- iii. Changing jobs/employment status
- iv. Receiving unemployment benefits
- v. Purchasing or renting a domicile
- vi. Purchasing an automobile
- vii. Obtaining a drivers license
- viii. Receiving healthcare treatment
2. Any person found to be in the United States illegally will be given two options:
- i. Deportation to their home country where they will be given the opportunity to apply for legal immigration to the United States unless they are a convicted felon.
- ii. Receive a Green Card granting temporary citizenship for a period of two years. As long as that person does not commit a felony, they will be granted citizenship as long as all conditions set forth herein are complied with. Persons choosing this option will forfeit the right to vote in all elections as penalty for entering the United States illegally. Persons choosing option one will have all the rights and privileges of a U.S. citizen as long as all the conditions of citizenship are met.
3. Any person found in the United States illegally who has committed a felony will be immediately deported to their country of origin and will not be allowed to return to the United States under any condition.
4. English will be declared the official language of the United States. All Federal agencies, state governments, municipalities, schools (to include K-12, all colleges and universities), and business entities will comply with this mandate within two-years of the implementation of this Bill. This includes all documents, websites, and phone systems.
5. Citizens must prove their proficiency in English before citizenship will be granted.
6. No person shall be offered employment in these United States without a valid, electronically verified Social Security or Green Card number.
7. No person shall be able to domicile in the United States without a valid, electronically verified Social Security or Green Card number.
8. If medical attention is provided to a person found to be in this country illegally they shall be deported to the country of their origin as soon as medically stable.
9. Should conditions exist that a person cannot be deported to their country of origin, in cases such as: their country of origin no longer exists, may be persecuted for political or religious reasons – a person will automatically be slotted into the two year limited Green Card program mentioned in section two (2) of this document. Felons will be deported regardless of condition.
Like any legislation, this plan will only work if it is enforced at all levels of government.
It is evident that our immigration process needs to be updated and streamlined as does most of America’s federal bureaucracy. Current immigration wait times range from three to nine years[vi] which is patently absurd. Perhaps a point system such as the one employed by New Zealand would be an appropriate model.
The Preamble of the Constitution states that the Federal Government is tasked with providing for the “common defense” of its citizens. In that regard, the Federal Government has woefully failed. Our southern border with Mexico allows for nearly unbridled illegal immigration.
The drug war that is also raging along the Mexican border has become a political disaster for the Obama Administration. There are now portions of the border where the Federal Government has posted signs warning Americans of the danger of crossing these areas[vii] which include portions of our nation’s interstate highway system.
To make matters worse, the State of Arizona has resorted to soliciting donations[viii] so that it can construct a fence along the Arizona, Mexico border. Under no circumstance can the government conclude that its current immigration policy is effective and that a new approach is not only warranted but a necessity.
By implementing the Kinsy, Calvert Bill which would prohibit illegal immigrants from obtaining employment or residence in the United States, we would likely see self deportation akin to what has happened in states like Alabama[ix] where strict immigration enforcement has caused a mass exodus of illegal immigrants. For those that remain, federal authorities will arrange deportation immediately.
Strict penalties must be placed on employers who are caught employing illegal immigrants. Similar penalties must be levied against landlords and banking institutions who issue mortgages to illegal immigrants. Strict enforcement of these two policies along with those spelled out above should prevent illegal immigration and alleviate any need to build cumbersome, costly border fences which will require costly maintenance and upkeep in perpetuity.
2. Any person found to be in the United States illegally will be given two options:
i. Deportation to their home country where they will be given the opportunity to apply for legal immigration to the United States unless they are a convicted felon.
ii. Receive a Green Card granting temporary citizenship for a period of two years.
NO! NO! NO! Especially ii. It virtually guarantees the lure will remain. If you get caught, get a green card and don’t get caught. Then bring all your tios, tias, grammas ansd grampas and put them on SS.
Seen on another board, and I think these are a better approach:
A merit based immigration system that brings in the skills and talents to keep us competitive in the global economy;
Reduced immigration levels based on need and more closely approximating 300,000 immigrants a year vice the current 1.2 million annually;
Elimination of extended chain migration, i.e., family reunification, limiting it to the nuclear family;
Enforcement of existing immigration laws to reduce the current illegal alien population and limit future illegal immigration, i.e., attrition thru enforcement. Enforcement would include: (1) ending the job magnet; (2) increasing coordination at the federal level by eliminating barriers to information sharing among agencies; (3) leveraging state and local enforcement resources; (4) fully implementing the US-VISIT Program to track and deport visa overstays; and (5) secure the border and make mandatory such programs as E-Verify and 287 [g] authority to assist employers and law enforcement in identifying illegal aliens;
Elimination of birthright citizenship;
Ensure that anyone who enters this nation illegally is not rewarded by being permitted to stay and work here; i.e., NO AMNESTY;
Streamline the processing and adjudication of immigration cases; and
Promote pro-immigrant measures that help newcomers assimilate and embrace the values and principles of our Founders and the Constitution.
Others:
If you enter illegally, then you MUST be punished with very stringent, PERMANENT penalties! :
Can NEVER sponsor other immigrants to enter the United States for citizenship!
Can NEVER hold a Secret or Top Secret clearance in any government-related employment!
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NOT JUST FARMERS, AGRICULTURE? IT IS EVERY AMERICAN BUSINESS? SHAME ON YOU!
Pay Farm labor a decent living wage, with health care and education for their family, instead of dumping the illegal labor costs on the taxpayer. Then you will find people desperate for a job, any job will come forward to work the fields. Farmers and giant agricultural consortium’s have been underpaying illegal labor forever and along with all the special subsidies, the same as most business owners. It has been proofed that it only cost a few more cents to the consumer, for vegetable and fruit if labor for the agrarian community pay fair wages for the work done. My grandfather picked apples in Washington State as did other family members. To make ends meet after World War Two, my distant relatives in the English countryside, picked strawberries for the local farmers. Make it a national policy to implement the E-Verify bill (H.R. 2885), identifiable as the “Legal Workforce Act”. Contact your own local Senator or Representative and insist as a voter to your federal politician at 202-224-3121.
This is just not about the farmers; it’s about meat packing plants, factories and manufacturing. Of course they don’t want to employ regular Americans-legal residents. It’s about any company owner—big or small—who wants to pay as little as possible, with no restrictions on as little they want to pay, for a person’s labor. They have violated this ‘Rule of Law’ because there have been no restrictions on prohibitions to stop them, until Lamar Smith’s H.R. 2885. Special interest groups and the radical open border activists, are currently trying to kill the federal ‘Secure Communities’ initiative. Any individual that is apprehended by the police will have their fingerprints forwarded to ICE, Homeland Security and the FBI for processing. Police data-bases can quickly assess who has been previously arrested, whether he/she is an illegal alien or not.
Learn the facts about illegal alien costs, statistics and business corruption at NumbersUSA, Judicial Watch and American Patrol. Make every Business, Company and workplace be committed to E-Verify or face harsh consequences. No business owner, no matter who he is, should think he is above the law. That also is a constant with political figures who own grape plantations in the bread basket of central California. This is not just for Farmers and agriculture but for every business owner, so that we can put every American worker in a job and stop catering to other counties impoverished. Go further and re-enact the “Bracero Project” of 1942 with rules and regulations, arranged so migrants from across the Southern border have easier access to specific jobs. The “Bracero Program” established why the plan proved immeasurably accepted among so many migrants, for whom seasonal labor in the US presented grand opportunities, despite some of the poor conditions they often were confronted with in the fields and camps.
Even under some poor situations they saved money, could buy consumer good, tools or an older vehicle, and returned home with new outlooks and a greater sense of self-respect.
In places as Mexico counselors studied these positive aspects of the economic and cultural effects of bracer project. If they are retained for employment the government must oversee they are treated correctly. They have to be issued a field workers visa that terminates at the end of harvesting and a mandatory return to their own country. Only through an employment office at entry ports can these people be hired and not through third parties or recruited by less than honest business enterprises. If they remain free of any major problems while employed in the U.S., they can renew their visas. As in Mexico—every person is tracked; all the farm and agricultural workers must be tracked, so they cannot decide to drop the job they are allocated to and disappear in the American job market. The “Bracero program” seemed to work very well, until it was dismantled in 1964. Through unfettered fraud millions of illegal aliens and their families have arrived here, after the 1986 Immigration Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
Eventually there was an increasing apprehension among businesses owners that the provisions within the guide lines of the program ensured the amplification of costs for the imported labor. This fair program mandated an assured level of wages, housing, food and Health care for the workers (to be paid for by the employers) that kept the standard of living above what many from across the border. Farmers and their associated Agrarian colleagues realized they could elevate their profits, by enjoying the extremely hard work in the fields, by hiring illegal aliens who are now exploited. Agriculture didn’t want to pay for the health care or schooling for their children and other benefits, as in the orderly federal “Bracero program.” They prefer the Taxpayers carry the weight of costs for the labor that they hire. Farmers already receive huge subsidies from the U.S. Government. Simple fact the farmers and all the growers of produce got greedy, for even larger profits.
A new fair migrant worker program will never, ever be possible under the entrenched GOP establishment and many in the Democratic ranks. Illegal Immigration will never end under the elitists Republicans or Democrats who really run the House and Senate. Americans can join forces and stop the overcrowded classroom full of the children of illegal parents. Stop the suffocation in the emergency rooms from foreign nationals crowding the waiting areas. Unable to locate a job; the only reasonable answer is to ‘Self Deport’ and will no longer steal jobs, approved by businesses that hire them. A very large majority of people that come here and fall into a financial backwash owing to the original sponsor, not able to support his immediate or her immediate family members. This becomes a burden to U.S. taxpayers who end up with the yoke of supporting these people through—CHAIN MIGRATION.
Many politicians have their own revenues in the illegal alien labor market. Only the TEA PARTY will stop the toxic pollution that emanates from Washington and the Congress.
One Old Vet saying, “Stand next to me and you’ll never stand alone.”
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Where did I single out any industry?