Or we could deport all of them and fine the bejeezus out of their employers.
Out!
"a reasonable process for dealing with the illegal immigrants"
the only acceptable process is deportation.
"First of all, all illegals currently in the country would have to sign a written document stating that they had broken the laws of the United States by entering the country."
How are you going to enforce this? "Excuse me Mr Illegal Alien, would you kindly sign this document? Wait a second, mister, why are you urinating on my document? I asked you for your signature ..."
"There would be fines for both the illegals and the employers who fail to initiate the guest worker application process."
How much of a fine. Currently, the fine for using a falsified social security card is $250,000. I wonder how many of those fines we have collected.
My simple solution:
1. Make illegal presence in the United States a felony, to go into effect on a certain date.
2. Establish a guest worker program. Upon completion of work visa, visa holder must return home and reapply. Failure to do so is illegal presence in the United States (see #1).
3. Eliminate the anchor baby clause. (This will require a constitutional amendment.)
I like it.
We could also say if you are here illegally and get caught, you will never receive american citizenship.
Impasse=Lack of guts to do anything about the issue. Wake up, we have reasonable immigration laws on the books already--ENFORCE THE DAMNED LAWS for pete's sake.
When you make "deals" that void our laws they've won.
All of the amnesty proposals (I've not seen much else) address "the worker" and what they have to do to stay here. I don't see anything about the family and relatives of "the worker" who are here soaking up the good life. Will there be any requirements for them to meet? Will they have to become "workers" or go home? Or will they be granted amnesty without any conditions? If "the worker" becomes unable to work will he be granted unconditional amnesty or sent home?
...and do all of this AFTER the border is fixed, the fence built, and the pourous sieve of a border is closed so more cannot come. In the mean time, get aggressive about rounding up any illegals we can find presently and immediately deporting them so that when the time comes and the borders are fixed, those that remain will know that we mean business with this sort of guest worker program
Secure the borders/ports.
Offer illegals an opportunity to apply for legal residencence, from their nation of origin, if they pay a fine. If they don't pay, they work it off at the work house and then get shipped back.
They then get in line with everyone else, and if they have children born in America, they (if they paid the fine) get processed first.
From there on out, it's more of a Bracero type program that I'd go with, but far superior in it's ability to track and control the 'guests'.
See, simple really.
AS I indicated yesterday, the illegals must pay a price for jumping the line
a) they sign up for remediation; if they don't sign up by a given date, and are caughty, they are deported and all of their possessions are confiscated and sold.
b) when it is their turn, they do 1 to 2 years of community service where they learn English and US History. During service time, they live in US Army tents or barracks and are fed US Army food. They can quit the community service at any time, but will be deported and are not eligible to get into line for migration.
c) When they successfully complete their service, they can get a green card, and be eligible for citizenship.
We have the world's most open immigration system (way too open in my opinion). We have Ports of Entry where anyone with a visa or passport from accepted nations can enter lawfully. We have so many different types of temporary visa programs it takes an attorney to sort it all out for someone - but there's almost always a way in. There is NO NEED for a "guest worker" amnesty, there is no reason to "be nice" to the citizens of Mexico and hand over citizenship in this country just because they say they want it. And there is no reason to do ANYTHING but enforce our existing laws.
And most of all, I will NOT be ruled in the country my family fought and died for by people who had NOTHING to do with the establishment and development of that country, on the contrary, people who have done and are doing EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to tear down the greatest human achievment in history: the United States of America.
The very first step is to secure the borders. After that's been done, then we can talk about the rest of it.
We don't have enough people to keep them from entering the country; who's going to round up all these illegals and toss them out?
Would these illegals receive preferential treatment and be favored over those aliens obeying our immigration laws and waiting for entrance legally....some over ten years at this point?....
I don't think you suggestion is either rational or fair for that reason alone.
Or we could fine employers $1M/day per employee for hiring an illegal.
Your idea has merit but the devil is in the details. Problem is when the illegals become legal then they are Americans and they won't do some jobs either. Restricting the jobs and the pay for those jobs even for just a certain length of time would be a form of indentured servitude.
Guest worker or not, they must speak English.