Immigration, Part 4

2007-6-28 05:53:00

The question of the year here in the United States is how to solve the immigration problem. The current Senate bill is an attempt to do this. They seemed to have a feeling that the public may not approve and attempted to ram it through as quickly as possible. Thanks to the instant communications of the day the public did become aware and with around 80 percent of the people being unsatisfied with it the bill did not pass. Now instead of listening to the people the Senate added some Band-Aids to it and is about to make another attempt on essentially the same bill.

On paper parts of the bill sound good, but it has the same basic flaw that the Immigration bill of 1986 had. That bill granted virtual amnesty, which caused the problem to accelerate. We now have 6-10 times the number of illegals to deal with as we did back then, yet it was claimed the bill would largely solve the problem. It did not. Instead it was part of the problem.

The current bill is worded so it does not sound like amnesty. This is, of course, to placate the senseless masses, yet the common people are smarter than the politicians think. They see the amnesty in this non-amnesty bill.

The amnesty is this. All illegal immigrants who have been here since January 1, 2007 or before can apply for a Z visa. Doing this immediately makes them legal and gives them most of the benefits a full citizen has. They can then work toward citizenship or they can continually renew their "Z" visa and stay here and have kids who then become citizens.

Most citizens feel this amnesty program will work no better than the 1986 bill. They are so frustrated with Congress that its approval rating is 14 percent, the lowest since Gallup has been in the business.

Supporters of the bill say, "What are we to do then? We can't just round up 12-20 million people and send them home!?"

Bryan presented a solution he heard from Bill O'Reilly.

"Require all illegal aliens in the country right now to register at the post office with Homeland Security. After registering, they would be given a tamper proof ID card, designating their status and their right to work temporarily in the USA. If the illegal aliens do not register, it's a criminal felony. Right now sneaking across the border is a civil action. Remember that. Subjecting the person to immediate deportation or jail time. The criminal penalty goes way up.

"Any business that hires an illegal worker who doesn't have a tamper proof ID card faces draconian fines and possible prison time for the executives.

"Each illegal alien would have his case reviewed by federal authorities. And they would decide who would receive a Z-visa to stay and who would not. That takes the blanket amnesty, something many American hate, off the table. It also allows the feds to make rational decisions about who's helping America and who isn't."

This is a little better than the current bill but it would create about the same degree of virtual amnesty. It would cause of lot of them to register, but that alone wouldn't change much.

What else can we do? Most do admit it is impractical to round up over 12 million people and send them home. Should we just accept the fact that they are here and make the best of it and concentrate on sealing the borders?

The only other alternative I have heard is to just work with current laws and deport illegals as they are caught by authorities. This wouldn't round up a large number at one time but a handful here and there until a difference is made. Then we create a liberal legal work program for those who come across the border legally.

Then perhaps, most important of all, is to control the border itself.The question of the year here in the United States is how to solve the immigration problem. The current Senate bill is an attempt to do this. They seemed to have a feeling that the public may not approve and attempted to ram it through as quickly as possible. Thanks to the instant communications of the day the public did become aware and with around 80 percent of the people being unsatisfied with it the bill did not pass. Now instead of listening to the people the Senate added some Band-Aids to it and is about to make another attempt on essentially the same bill.

This is important not only to control the foreign work force but to weed out potential terrorists. I'll talk about this next.

Global Warming Enlightenment:

It looks like progress is being made. A new survey shows that 71% of the people think that natural cycles cause global warming and has little to do with human activity.

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