Posted on 03/18/2015 10:48:25 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
THE goal of fixing our broken immigration system is further away than ever. President Obama’s executive orders — which would allow up to five million of about 11 million illegal immigrants to stay in this country — have been challenged in the courts, and Republicans, a majority in the new Congress, have held up appropriations and confirmations in retaliation.
Neither side is ready to compromise. But the failure to fix our immigration laws is not an exclusively Republican or Democratic failure. Just as we created the problem together, we must solve it together. There is one way to start: Mandate E-Verify for all employers — and make it the vehicle for legalizing unauthorized workers.
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As two political veterans who will never run for office again, we have a suggestion: Congress should mandate E-Verify, but pair it with a process for gradually legalizing immigrants, on a case-by-case basis. In short, law-abiding unauthorized immigrants who are already working would, under this plan, be able to come out of the shadows — but without a blanket legalization for all 11 million.
That would fit both the Republican goal of step-by-step reform and the Democratic goal of providing permanent legal status to unauthorized immigrants who satisfy certain criteria (passing a criminal-background check, significant length of time in the country, connections with American relatives). This would put aside, for now, other issues, like visas for high-tech workers, the system of family reunification and the long-term status of the children known as dreamers. . .
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I agree. Except Ali would add one thing to it.
Until number 1 is complete, only number 5 and number 6 will apply.
Hello ALAN K. SIMPSON and BRUCE A. MORRISON - did you know there are ‘news writers’ in India willing to work for ten bucks an hour? And that YOU TOO can be replaced by cheap foreign labor...
Think about it Alan - and you too Bruce A. Morrison... your jobs could be next.
Roll them out, send them home.
No more of this Lyndon Johnson lock-up-the-White-House stuff.
If the GOP gets locked out of the White House for 50, 100, 200 years through this 'Rat stratagem, it will cease to exist, and so will the United States and the American idea.
The beautiful thing about an e-verify mandate for all employers is that in making these folks unemployable, they’ll pay for THEIR OWN BUS TICKET BACK.
There’s that ‘shadows’ word again. Watch out!
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