This liberal attitude towards illegal immigrant presence does not occur in any other country.
Lyndon Bird's legacy perpetuated by his successors and the complicit houses of congress.
You make more people wealthy by allowing your economy the freedom to create more weatlhy people.
Every tax, every license, every fee, and every regulation not directly aimed at punishing DIRECT harm to someone elses property or Rights, is a drag on that wealth generation mechanism.
We need an Amendment giving us a "Seperation of Government and Economy".
Welfare has become a way of life for many; I would love to see statistics regarding how many 2nd and 3rd generations of families are receiving government checks - it has to be a very high percentage.
The safety net has become a lifestyle.
I'm in favor of developing and implementing a scannable social security card system containing embedded digital information and images which can be electronically compared via network to that of national databases which would help reduce fraud, and the linking of those card ID's to state DMV licenses and state voter registrations. By making the SSI cards scannable and verifiable online, many excuses felon employers and illegal employees now use to circumvent U.S. immigration code would be reduced or eliminated as well as helping eliminate claims of ignorance which complicate successful prosecutions. This system would also help reduce incidents of identity theft, thus providing consumers added security from those with malicious intent as well as adding valuable security in the information off shoring craze taking place where consumers' personal and financial information is being distributed among entities in countries not subject to U.S. courts' jurisdiction.
After such ID is implemented, I believe our government should set a firm date whereby all employers will have had to verify and swear out an affidavit to the legal status of all their employees and after that cut-off date, those still intent, charged with, and found guilty of the felony of hiring illegal aliens would be fined $50,000 for each violation of the perjured affidavit or a minimum sixty percent of their annual net revenue. After that date, the government should allow enforcement of our immigration code to the letter and insist on apprehensions by any and all appropriate law enforcement authorities and should tie local governments' receiving federal monies to enforcement compliance. I believe it has become necessary we implement a system of bounties for information leading to both the apprehension and successful conviction of those felons and for the detainment and deportation of illegal aliens. Those states' Attorneys General should be given non-discretional enforcement capabilities and be expected to implement enforcement within their respective states without hindrances from courts of law obstructing their enforcement duties.
I also believe it is time we begin a local or statewide database on those who receive welfare benefits and other public funded assistances which is linked to the Employment Security Commission's database. That database ought reflect the AMOUNT of assistance received and the reason for the assistance and should be available for public scrutiny. Employers who need guest workers ought be required first to review such database for those who could fill that position before any applications for foreign workers are permitted. Upon making a written request for such welfare recipient as a worker by thoroughly disclosing the job description and a local Employment Security Commission review board determining such offer is compatible with the recipient's ability, the welfare recipient should be required to accept such offer without option. Should a welfare recipient be made a valid offer by a potential employer and refuse or fail to comply with basic employment expectations, that and all public assistance should immediately cease. If an employer exercises the application option for a foreign guest worker through the DHS or US Labor department, they ought be required to file an affidavit of support much similar to the Form I-134 sponsors of legal immigrants must swear out. Those affidavits ought be made enforcable without judiciary intervention or dismissal since they are similar to the same documents the judiciary allows and accepts as sworn testimony.
There again, local ESC offices could match employment opportunities with the welfare recipient database by computer and, dependant upon a hands on review, introduce workers and employers. Those failing to fill those openings should be removed from welfare rolls. Employer's requests for workers could then be matched to DHS or US Labor department applicants from foreign countries.
You could say it's a way to quit paying Americans for not doing the jobs Americans would do if they had to do them.
I have a simple solution for America's illegal alien labor attraction. We need to do away with the minimum wage protection for foreign workers, "guest workers".
Allow anyone from anywhere access into the US as long as they have an ID document from their country of origin. No penalty for entry, no demand for deportation as long as no publically funded benefits are sought or received.
If a "guest worker" can take a job Americans won't do, we ought require the employer to apply the current exchange rate of the employee's home country to the offered US labor rate.
For example, China's exchange rate to the US dollar is roughly 0.1209. If a job usually pays an American worker $18/hr, we should require employers to pay Chinese guest laborers only $2.18/hr for that job. Mexico's rate is roughly 0.0909. An $18/hr job ought justly net the Mexican guest worker $1.64/hr for the same labor. India's exchange rate is....well, you get the picture...
In addition to any criminal charges, allowing US citizens the ability to file significant civil litigation against employers for discriminatory practices would also help. If a Mexican guest worker is proven to have been paid $8/hr to shrub ditchbanks by a US employer, the employer ought be required to show he'd advertized an offer to Americans of $88/hr ($8 USD divided by 0.0909). If a Chinese guest worker is proven to have been paid $8/hr to wash dishes, the employer ought be required to show he'd posted an offer to Americans of $66/hr for the same job ($8 USD divided by 0.1209). Only if employers charged with discriminatory practices show they've offered/paid an American an adjusted net equivalent wage should they be abled to avoid prosecution.
Free markets ought be just that. Either they are free, or they aren't.
It's been a welfare problem for the last 40 years.