You forget one important fact.
Not one of these people will be sent home. They stay here, put down roots, and every person here starts feeling sorry for them and it’s over.
And then folks who should know better on our team, twist themselves into pretzels trying to devise a reasoned sounding plan to give the Left all they every wanted.
Permanent status. Permanent status leads to citizenship. I don’t care if it’s through marriage or a new act from Congress, they will be assimilated.
Job done.
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That's because of the perverse incentive we have in place.
I lived through the last amnesty and this is what happened:
Illegal immigrants who were granted amnesty were made into lawful permanent residents and as such were bared from leaving to US for a period of more than 90 days. A departure greater than 90 days showed that they had abandoned their lawful status.
Aliens who had been coming and going for seasonal work where FORCED through our stupid policy to maintain a year round residence.
This forced them to find work outside of agg or other seasonal professions. They moved into construction and displaced many citizens with their reduced wages. Because they could no longer travel home for the winter they had no choice but to eventually smuggle their familys up.
Since many could still only get seasonal work but had rent and bills to pay year round, it was only a matter of time before they started taking advantage of out government hand outs. The dems were and remain all to eager to accommodate them.
This was good for housing costs and the chamber of commerce types but left agg with a gaping labor shortage into which a new generation of illegals would soon flow.
So here we are today right back where we started. It was our stupid policies that created this mess and a good policy can help mitigate it.
Most Mexicans who come here illegally just want to make money and take it back to Mexico where it is worth a great deal more. They do not want to maintain a year round residence here because it is expensive and its hard to get year round work. If they could see their families in Mexico they would not bring them here in the first place.
A down side to our increased border security is that illegal aliens don't want to risks going home anymore. Yet another perverse incentive of our current policy. The real difference here is that their must be a clear line between a non-immigrant guest worker and an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence LAPR.