Posted on 01/25/2015 12:02:31 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
With Republicans in Congress split over the best approach to Obama's executive amnesty - and with many establishment Republicans splitting form grassroots Republicans on the issue of illegal immigration more generally - it's clear that immigration will be a hot-button primary issue in 2016. ...
So where do the potential candidates stand? Here's a rundown:
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Enjoy the read...
There are candidates I hope will win nomination. That includes Cruz, Walker, Pence, Kasich, Jindal.
There are others who I prefer by 10:1 over Hillary. Huckster from Arkanas, Randy from Kentucky, Rubio the Cuban, and the donut lover from NJ.
Romney, Jeb Bush are non-starters under any circumstances. Because they are sure losers to Hillary in 2016.
I’m for comprehensive immigration reform. I want a fence from El Paso to Los Angeles, and I want the law enforced. Comprehensively.
Let the chips fall where they fall.
Cruz is the one guy who seems to take a stand against amnestizing these guys.
He’s my guy. Thanks for this little list. Very helpful.
After spending a vacation in Singapore less than a year ago, I have come to admire their economy and immigration laws. They have low business taxes. No food stamps...zero! No unemployment compensation...zero!
So every working age adult has a job. Guess what their unemployment rate is? It is MINUS 40%. For those in Rio Linda that means they have 40% more jobs than working age citizens. High Tech industry is flourishing.
Those 40% excess jobs which citizens of Singapore do not particularly care for, are filled by importing foreign workers on 2 year work visa’s. After 2 years they are required to go back and apply again. Extremely few of these foreign workers cause trouble because then they are permanently barred for future jobs in Singapore.
Singapore is a mixed population of Chinese, Indians, and Arabs, with a few British left over from colonial era. Every sixth Singapore citizen is a millionaire. The infrastructure such as airport, hospitals, underground hiways, ocean cruise ships terminal etc make ours in USA look like third world. College education ts merit based and subsidized to citizens.
Real comprehensive immigration reform:
1. Secure our borders and ports and provide verifiable metrics
2. End the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment
3. Make eVerify mandatory and enforce it with large fines
4. Reduce legal immigration quotas and end chain migration
5. Deport illegals upon contact with any law enforcement agency
6. No local, state or federal government benefits of any kind
7. Any health and/or other care billed back to the home country
8. Lifetime ban on path to citizenship for anyone who entered illegally
9. Make illegal entry a felony
CRUZ PAUL 2016
or
PAUL CRUZ 2016
either way......
Cruz did introduce a bill that would have supported “permanent legal residency status” and if that happens, some people feared it could lead to citizenship. I think he was trying to make the best out of a bad situation.
You left out 1,254 miles from El Paso to Brownsville and those in CA to San Diego. Or are you giving away the land between LA and San Diego?
Good choice!
Fence will solve less than half of the problem. Most illegals arrive legally on a tourist or student visa, and do not leave after visa expires.
One problem I have with the argument "illegals should not go to the head of the line":
Most of the politicians give lip service to the "wall" and "border control" and thus seem to recognize that for our immigration policy to be at all effective the line must form up on the other side of the border.
If so, and assuming there will always be a line, the illegals now present are going to have to leave in order to get in that line.
At best, each and every one of those politicians has not yet offered a workable solution.
As one of the posts at the end of the article posits:
"The reason the war on poverty has never worked is that we keep importing the poor in greater numbers."
That seems accurate.
Actually each of them supports illegal aliens being able to just waltz into our sovereign country..
This has nothing to do with immigration..
I believe it was Carson in IA stating he preferred a guest worker program but you could only apply for it from outside the US. no exactly how sure that resolves those inside that refuse to leave (so they can apply).
PING
You runnin’ for POTUS?. Great list.
SImple....require government work permit before employers can hire or continue employment. Just like they do in Singapore. Result is there are no illegals working in Singapore. And Singapore knows exactly who is in the country, where they work and where they live.
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