First, conservatives value national security, and the status quo encourages anything but national security. The presence of 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens within the confines of our borders should prompt the type of reform the president has suggested.
President Bush's proposal will ensure smarter border enforcement by redirecting resources for border security and the war on terrorism away from the dishwashers and landscapers who are trying to cross the border illegally and toward the smugglers and terrorists who are attempting to cross the border for purposes far more nefarious than filling jobs that American workers are not taking.
If border security wouldn't work for keeping out Mexicans,why will it work on terrorists?Who's to say the "dishwashers and landscapers" aren't working for a terrorist organization?I mean,those good ol' boys from Saudi Arabia were just here for flying lessons,remember?
We can try to tighten up border enforcement even more than we already have (we've already increased spending on border enforcement six-fold over the past 20 years), but as long as the United States offers foreign workers more opportunity for work than their home countries do, people will risk their lives to cross the border.
There in lies another problem.If they're so hard working and upstanding folk,why don't they fix the problem at home?Instead,they take the easy route and bail on their own country.
According to Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, "A real effort to control the border with Mexico would require perhaps 20,000 agents and the development of a system of formidable fences and other barriers along those parts of the border used for illegal crossings."
Yawn!Punish employers who give them jobs.It's done for discrimination,why can't we do it for employing illegals?
It should also be noted that some 40 percent of those illegally in the United States first entered the country legally and then overstayed their visas. Even if we did manage to seal the border from illegal crossings, the problem would still be with us. Clearly, we can't solve this problem through border enforcement alone.
He just admits that,though here legally to begin with,they choose to break the law instead of go home,like they were supposed to do.
A temporary worker program, coupled with serious workplace enforcement, would bring those who are in the shadows out into the open. Temporary workers would be registered. We would finally know who they are, how long they've been here, and when they must return to their home country or change their status.
heeheehee!See how well that has worked in the above paragraph.
Again, the "carrot" of a temporary worker program must be coupled with the "stick" of workplace enforcement. With a reasonable legal avenue available, workers should have no excuse for not utilizing it and employers should have no excuse for hiring those who do not.
Except that when they don't hire them,they'll be sued for discriminating against the "guest worker".
The latter point is important. Conservatives respect the law. Our current immigration laws, everyone will agree, are so convoluted and out of touch with how people actually organize their lives that it does not foster respect for the law. If we want the law to be enforced, we need to have a law that can realistically be enforced given our labor needs. Which brings me to another point. Conservatives recognize that America has a need for labor that Americans are unable or unwilling to fill.
The coup de gras of all pro illegal alien articles.The jobs Americans won't do.Sorry,but that myth has been debunked over and over.
Do these people all get a memo outlining the same crap?Reminds me of when the dems were in power and everyone was spouting the "disenfranchised" rhetoric.
Yes it has. All one has to do is go to those states where illegals aren't to see that.