The President and Congress believe that with people on summer vacation they can cram an extremely bad immigration bill through without notice.

 

The President and Congress are in the process of selling us out again to special interests, I strongly feel the need to update and reiterate my position on illegal immigrants and what we must do as a country to deal with the situation now and in the future.

 

The biggest problem with the immigration law that the President and Congress are trying to pass isn't that we are rewarding a bunch of law breakers, it isn't that we are setting up millions of people for lower wages, it isn't that we are rewarding businesses for hiring illegal aliens, it isn't the complete break-down of our boarder/national security and it isn't that this law is going to cost us trillions of dollars if enacted.

 

 

 

Do you actually believe that once Congress passes this or any other immigration bill that the government will actually start to enforce our laws against the hiring of illegal immigrants?  Well I don't and I don't believe most Americans do either.

 

The problem of illegal immigration actually has a very simple solution.  Start enforcing the penalties against the hiring of illegal immigrants and you will remove the major attraction that draws people to this country illegally - jobs.  Without jobs and the prospect of a much better life the vast majority of people will stay home.

 

 

As stated in a previous email, my plan for dealing with this mess would proceed as follows:

 

1 - All people in the country illegally would have to register as a foreign guest-worker within 90 days in order to ever obtain citizenship or even achieve permanent status.  There would be no exceptions to this policy.  If you don't register within 90 days, you are in a separate class, face a much harder road to move forward towards legal working status and citizenship and probably will be deported.

 

2 - In addition to having to register, all illegal aliens would have to open bank accounts and obtain legal, taxable jobs if they hope to ever obtain citizenship or permanent status.  Household employees would need their employers to start paying taxes on them, gardeners would have to start recording their income like real businessmen and everyone would get back on a level playing field.  No legal, tax-paying job and you get to go back home.

 

3 - In order to obtain citizenship, a process that I envision taking at least 3 years and up to 10 years depending on how long the individual can prove they have been in the country the following qualifications will have to be met.

 

-         Registration, as stated above, in the required amount of time and other requirements of the registration rules.

-         Opening of a bank account, having a regular, on the books job and paying taxes.

-         Absolutely no criminal record prior to or after registration, including not having such offenses as driving without a license, driving without insurance or drunk driving.

-         At least an 8^th grade grasp of the English language.

-         Payment of a fee of an amount large enough to cover the costs of all the services required to become a citizen of the United States.

 

These rules are fairly simple. 

 

As President I would do one thing to ensure that this situation doesn't happen again, I would make sure our laws are enforced.

 

First, I would instruct all agencies under my jurisdiction to strictly enforce and apply the rules against hiring illegal immigrant workers. 

 

Second, I would direct that all instances of hiring of illegal aliens be subject to penalty by jail time - real jail time, not a "country club" jail.  It's real simple for an employer to pay a fine and move on - that's just a cost of doing business.  It's not so simple to ignore the threat of real jail time in a real criminal jail.  No one wants to face that prospect.

 

Third, there would be no Federally funded benefit programs available to illegal immigrants further removing incentives to come here illegally.

 

Fourth, I believe we need to change the Constitution so that only those born of American citizens become citizens of this country upon birth.  The founders of our country could and would have never envisioned the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of babies being born each year in United States hospitals solely so their parents can use their anchor babies as an excuse to demand to stay here and take benefits from the rest of us.

 

It's really that simple.  If the laws are enforced and there aren't any jobs for illegal aliens then there will be no reason for them to sneak across the boarder and come here. We have to not only deal with the problem at hand, but more importantly ensure that it does not happen again in another 10 years.