...Elites in the Republican Party are complicit because they are beholden to commercial interests that are addicted to cheap, exploitable labor. Elites in the Democrat Party are complicit because they hope to buy their votes with taxpayer-funded benefits. Also a certain cadre welcomes the fact that these people come from places where questioning authority is hazardous to your health...
...Most Americans do not support mass deportation, but they don't support mass amnesty either. A far simpler and economical solution is to remove the incentives. All public assistance should be for U.S. citizens only. Neither should there be drivers licenses, in-state tuition [that actually favors illegals over legal immigrants and U.S. citizens living in other states] nor other rewards for violating our sovereignty. I invite anyone to review Mexico's immigration laws to see their hypocrisy when criticizing those of the United States.
Nobody says deport them.
Just stop giving them free stuff.
They'll deport themselves.
They can ALL be rounded up by small forces through attrition, every last one of them. You don’t have to get all of them at one time; that’s the biggest straw man argument ever and the amnesty crowd keeps bringing it back again and again. And there is precedent for a roundup and deport effort. It was called Operation Wetback, and took place in the 1950s.
It is very easy to make it so illegal aliens cannot get jobs and cannot get welfare...PLUS Give them $1000 and a free plane ticket home and they will GTFO (self-deport)
And build a fence and monitor and enforce all visas and those who seek to scam their way in here via visa overstaying as in permanently squatting here
One of the primary constitutional obligations of the national government is to protect the states from invasion.
Article IV, Section 4
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”
Just do it. Keep the oath.
Because a nation without borders is no longer a nation.
The article is shallow and sophomoric.
Any immigration reform that has a “path to citizenship” must be a path that requires self sufficiency meaning absolutely no reliance on government assistence for oneself or ones dependents before one can legally become a citizen and most importantly earn the right to vote. Let them apply for residency and work permits but we sure as hell don’t have to let them vote while they are dependent on the federal government. Also I believe that employers that employ these workers with work permits should face an additional tax if these workers take advantage of public assistance. I also think there should be a 10 year penalty for illegal immigrants before they can apply for full citizenship and earn voting rights. I’d also like to see an ammendment getting rid of anchor babies where children born to illegals become citizens automagically because one gives birth in the US versus Mexico. Citizenship should only be granted when at least one parent is a citizen. Currently that is not the case but it should be the case and we can’t have a full proof system till it is the case.
I’d also like to see a federal voter id requirement not just an employment id requirement. If we are going to be generous and open to granting residency permits and work permits we should know that these illegal immigrants aren’t stealing the votes of long standing citizens nor being used as near slave labor in place of citizens working for an honest wage. Right now I’d be happy with the 10 year penalty for coming here illegally and the self-sufficiency requirement for citizenship which I believe are more than reasonable requirements.
We also need strong enforcement. Anyone that tells you we can’t possibly processs 11 million illegal aliens are being intellectually dishonest. We process over 41 million speeding tickets and no one talks about the scale of that feat. Also no one talks about the several hundred million tax payers that Obamacare requires the healthcare insurance status be monitored so all the talk about the feasibility is smoke and mirrors. As enforcement increases we’d see a reduction of those cases that require enforcement. One of the reasons that so many come to the US is because of a long standing policy of partial and inconsistent enforcement. The last thing we want is to make illegal immigration not only easy but something that rewards those who commit what is without question a crime.
It would also be nice if we could deny all but emergency temporay access to public welfare programs. Also we should require that citizenship be verified not only at employers but by public service employees. If you can’t verify citizenship then it should be assumed someone is an illegal unless something indicates that is clearly not likely.
We need a hard fair system that doesn’t allow millions of wards of state to become citizens and voters in a forenight.
It is hardly inconsistent- nobody has a right to come into your house without permission; likewise, nobody has a right to come into the US without permission. If invaders (that is the proper term for people who come in without permission) were met with maximum hostility and not given government handouts then we wouldn’t have a problem.
Gee...how about if you let local cops ask people their immigration status when they detain somebody for another charge?
When is the treatment of American citizens in Mexico and their rights vs US treatment of Mexicans going to be an issue when we discuss amnesty ?
Ever hear of reciprocal aggrements ? These are arranged to protect the rights of American citizens working or living in other countries.
Why is it when it comes to citizens of other countries we are required to offer them the same privledges as we do to US citizens? But when it comes to US citizens who get in trouble or attempt to do business in other countries they do not get the same treatment their citizens get.
Americans can’t own coast land in Mexico. And get no title to it elsewhere. If they run out of cash they’ll get unceremoniously sent back or put in jail untill some relative comes up with the “fresh”. That’s just for starters as for granting them voting privledges yea let’s give Mexican citizens that right when American citizens vote in their elections .
I’m not worried so much about the current illegals as I am about incentives.
What we cannot do, if we want to fix the problem, is to create incentives for more to immigrate illegally. That’s where Reagan went wrong in 1986.
By dealing with the current immigrants via an amnesty, we created an incentive for millions more to come, expecting to eventually get an amnesty, themselves.
We need immigrants - but we need them to be legal. Any purported solution that creates incentives for more to enter illegally will only make the problem worse.
Don’t need deportation.
No free stuff
No vote
Actually what you are saying is BS. Enforce the laws and stop giving out government freebies to non citizen law breakers -the illegals will self deport. We do not NEED to provide anything. WE believe that government is NOT the great provider EVEN when it comes to 'practical solutions' to problems it created in the first place.
Actually what you are saying is BS. Enforce the laws and stop giving out government freebies to non citizen law breakers -the illegals will self deport. We do not NEED to provide anything. WE believe that government is NOT the great provider EVEN when it comes to 'practical solutions' to problems it created in the first place.
That article has a patently false central theme. History shows us that quite the opposite is the case, it’s been done effectively before.
Simple: start enforcing the laws, and the criminals will high-tail it out of here. It’s been done before with good results. Eisenhower’s politically-correct named immigration operation has already been cited.
What’s more, 50%+ of this nation’s hispanic population resides in just 3 states. It wouldn’t take a national police force or military intervention in all fifty states. Hell, it probably wouldn’t take more than the ICE actually bothering to enforce the goddamned laws in the first place.
According to the Pew Hispanic Center:
(1) First generation Hispanics vote 80% for the Democrat Party.
(2) Fourth generation Hispanics vote 60% for the Democrat Party.
Anything that is not 100% deportation is Amnesty.
Instead of making clever excuses to keep illegal aliens here....energy should be focused on sending them home