“We DO NOT enforce the current immigration laws...who’s going to enforce these?”
N O B O D Y
This is surrender ... not a solution. Would our lawmakers say the same of murderers? Rapists? Thieves? Ah well ... there’s too many. Can’t stop it. Let’s allow it! Then, it’s all legal and the problem goes away!
It is a chicken-hearted answer! Get some spine! Get tough!
Yes, we DO need a guest worker (what a phrase) answer to the problem of the need for cheap labor (call it what it is), but then why not encourage people from Mexico who have NEVER broken our laws to come on up and join us with a clean record! Those currently here are lawbreakers and yes, this bill rewards them for it!
I am wholeheartedly against it.
But really, to tell you the truth, I’d rather pay a quarter more for a head of lettuce, have Americans hired to do the job and send the lawbreakers back home.
The overload on our economy is killing us. Hospitals, schools, doctors, all of the entitlements due OUR citizens are being squeezed out of existance because America has no guts to say ‘NO’!
Shore up the border so that it’s effective (they put holes in the fences now ... you think a brand new fence is going to command respect all of a sudden?), put enough border agents on the job, commit the best technology that we have and get it done!
Want cheap labor? How about allowing amnesty for those that have been here for 20 years with no felony record to stay? They’ve been good citizens? OK. But NOT their children and their children’s children ad infinitum ...! Each person on his/her own merit IF they have a clean record and marketable skill.
And GET a good solid database going between ALL law enforcement agencies, hospitals, doctors, schools, gov’t funding, etc. with ALL the information in it, for heaven’s sake. This is 2007, not 1897. Sheeesh.
I was watching Hannity and Colmes last night and that's what Alan kept hammering Tancredo about..."oh, geez, we're cracking down now, it's not amnesty, they have to do this, that..." What you said is basically what Tancredo said. Who is going to enforce this? We can't enforce the laws we have now.