I don't really care about trying to track down and deport the 8 to 12 million illegals. I am concerned about a Bush policy that does nothing to secure our borders and turns over our immigration policy to employers. How will be able to enforce the Bush plan? How many illegals will sign on knowing that they could be deported after three years or sooner if they lose their jobs? Bush will now allow them to bring in their families increasing the numbers further and making citizens out of any children born here.
I can see an Underground Railroad being developed by unscrupulous employers bringing workers in for a fee and then setting them loose. I can see a marked increase in the volume of illegals to get in here before the plan is approved. I can see documented workers disappearing after the 3 years are up. I can see the Bush Plan affecting not only low, paying menial jobs (supposedly not wanted by Americans), but also, skilled jobs now covered and limited by H1B visas.
The bottom line is we have no control over our borders and the Bush plan does nothing to improve the situation. We can't absorb all the workers that want to come here. Mexico has a population of 100 million with 33% of the population under 15. Its GDP per capita income is one seventh of ours. The economic pressures for Mexicans and the most of Latin America to come to America will continue to increase.
It doesn't matter how many illegals we are able to deport. We do not need to create an incentive for more to come here. Do you not think that more illegals will flood over when they realize our pattern of giving amnesty every 10 years or so?
1. Any illegal immigrant who is arrested for a crime must automatically be charged with violating this country's immigration laws. Even if they are acquitted of the original charge that prompted their arrest, they should be deported.
2. No illegal immigrant can file a civil suit in the United States. In addition, any illegal immigrant who is involved in a civil suit as a defendant (if they are involved in a car accident, for example) must automatically forfeit any assets they have to the plaintiff in the case -- after which they will be subject to prosecution under the second part of Item #1.
3. Any illegal alien who is charged with multiple violent crimes will not be treated as a violent criminal in the United States court system. Instead, he or she will be considered a foreign combatant and subject to a U.S. military tribunal. Any nation that decides to "claim" this prisoner of war will first have to forfeit $1 million to the U.S. to compensate this country for its troubles. If no nation wished to "claim" this prisoner of war, he or she will be returned to their nation of origin via a U.S. military aircraft -- and dropped there from an elevation of 30,000 feet.
NOTE: Item #3 is the most pertinent, for it illustrates the real problem with the second sniper case. The problem wasn't that Lee Malvo was spared the death penalty -- the problem was that as an illegal alien he should never have been sitting in a U.S. court room in the first place. Someone who enters this country illegally and goes on a shooting spree is not a criminal -- he a f#cking invader.
BS! If the govt can enforce the guest worker program then they have just displayed that they could have enforced our immigration laws in the first place. It isnt about deporting 12 million people it is about going after employers who are breaking the law and it wont take alot.
One at a time my friend, one at a time...