Posted on 01/17/2008 7:45:08 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says that he is going to get tough on illegal immigrants. He has signed a pledge to enforce immigration laws and to make all illegal aliens go home. Huckabee has also pledged to oppose a so-called "path to citizenship" for current illegals. Apparently he has a nine-point plan to accomplish this goal. If so .. good for him. Let's get that puppy implemented as soon as possible. I just love reading stories about illegals crossing the border ... heading South. As they say ... don't let the doorknob hit ya!
Now we just know what's going to happen next, don't we? The apologists for illegal immigration and Hispanic race pimps are going to yell bloody murder if Huckabee actually starts implementing such a plan. The question is, how in the world can you get the criminal aliens (and if they're here illegally, they're criminals) to go home without giving the pro-illegal activists something to scream about, and at the same time denying the race pimps the opportunity to start squealing about racial profiling?
Here's a plan. I think it's an excellent one. It is not original with me. I've just cobbled together a few ideas and concepts from a few different sources. I've covered this before in the Nuze ... but being the repetitive sort .. here we go again.
Step 1. Enact harsh penalties against employers who knowingly or carelessly hire illegals. If a simple mistake was made, the penalty is low. If the illegal hiring was clearly intentional or through premeditated negligence, the penalty is harsh ... up to and including having your business shut down. The object here is to deny jobs to people who are in this country illegally.
Step 2. Deny all but emergency services to people who are in this country illegally. This includes no driver's licenses. Illegals also would not be allowed to enroll in any college or university that receives government money.
Step 3. Pass federal laws, or amend the Constitution if need be, to deny citizenship status to babies born to mothers in this country illegally.
OK .. at this point you have the illegals heading home. They can't work. They can only get basic emergency services. The surroundings become decidedly unfriendly, and they go home.
But wait! Realistically we all know that there are many American industries that need these people to work. No problem. The second phase of this solution sets up a guest worker program .. so here are the next steps:
Step 4. Issue guest worker cards to foreign nationals who wish to come to the United States to work on a temporary basis. These guest worker cards can ONLY be issued by U.S. authorities in the countries in which the guest workers were born or of which they are citizens. No guest worker cards will be issued in the U.S.
Step 5. Establish a network of government-licensed staffing agencies. These staffing agencies will be established solely to handle the demand for guest workers. An employer will place an order with the agency for a specific number of workers with specific skills for a specific period of time. The agency will then work through it's counterpart in Mexico or elsewhere to arrange for the needed workers and to deliver them to the employer for the work.
Step 6. Either the agency or the employer will be responsible for housing for the temporary workers, as well as for any emergency medical services that may be needed. Step 7. The temporary worker will be paid by the agency, not by the employer. The agency will bill the employer for all costs and will pay the temporary worker from the money received by the employer. There will be severe penalties for any business or individual who makes a direct payment to a temporary worker or an illegal alien outside of the agency regime.
Step 8. When the temporary work assignment is over there are no more payments made to the temporary worker. The worker is provided transportation back from whence he came. If he elects to try to stay in the country illegally ... where's he going to work? Besides ... staying here illegally results in the permanent revocation of his temporary worker card.
Anyone have any problems with this plan? Any candidate is welcome to pick it up and run with it. I make no claim to originality. If you listened to my show you would realize that.
There are legitimate programs for bringing in guest workers that do not burden the American taxpayer or result in illegal aliens in the United States.
Here is but one of them: http://www.cosmorecruit.co.za/vsa.html
And here is an NPR story about it:
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=15271105&m=15271076
This is a workable plan already in progress. The “downside”?
The beneficiaries are not Hispanic, so there is no political benefit for the Democrats or the Rove Republicans, and there is no illegal profiteering by the Chamber of Commerce Republicans who want to exploit cheap, off-the-books illegal Hispanic labor.
Strange that no politicians, including Romney and Thompson, are talking about it.
Good post, good info. It goes straight to the issue of Huckabee's character. A man's pledge is as good as his word, which is only good as his character.
“A man’s pledge is as good as his word, which is only good as his character.”
That’s the way I see it as well.
Step 3. Pass federal laws, or amend the Constitution if need be, to deny citizenship status to babies born to mothers in this country illegally.
Huckabee opposes both of those steps.
McHuck, the lawdog: takin’ a bite out of US Immigration crime.
Why, it’s enough to make a crow blush.
When the TITLE of the thread is “Huck Gets Tough on Immigration”, I believe that Huck getting tough on immigration is going to be the topic of discussion.
If Neal wanted us to discuss HIS plan, he shouldn’t have put it in an article called “Huck gets tough”, because it falsely implies that the plan has some relationship to Huck’s positions, when in fact Huckabee has specifically denounced at least one major step in Neal’s plan, and has acted contrary to at least one other major step.
"It does appear to be the issue out here wherever we are," said Huckabee. "Nobody's asked about Iraq - doesn't ever come up. The first question out of the box, wherever I go - Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Texas it doesn't matter - is immigration. It's just red hot, and I don't fully understand it."
From http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/huckabee-advert.html on December 10, 2007 (emphasis mine)
Comming from a man whose tax plan comes from a group that shares a building with the consulate of ecuador.
This smacks of a normalization is not Amensty suspicion.
Hard to take such a candidate’s “me too” campaign trail epiphany.
Huckabee needs to take lessons from Romney, changing of the mind needs to happen BEFORE you file, not after it becomes obvious people will not trust you on immigration.
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4200 Westheimer Rd., Suite 218
Houston, TX 77027
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Obviously you didn't read past the title, and maybe the first paragraph -- or you would have found out that THE MAIN THRUST OF THE ARTICLE was Neal's idea --NOT a commercial for or against HUCKABEE.
Right? Obviously you pick a candidate just like you read....with no thought! That’s what I posted about, that and his rating as a governor which sucks.
Oh? You want to get nasty, huh? OK, let's have at it.
You aren't the sharpest sword in the arsenal, being, as you are, dumb enough to jump to the conclusion that just because I post an article that mentions Huckabee -- ONE NOT WRITTEN BY ME, by the way -- that I am beating the drum for him.. That is one hell of a stupid way to make up your alleged mind about anything.
You have the same dim bulb attitude that Huck has.
What a laugh -- a totally burnt out bulb showing how very little light it can shed. HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Huck, like his supporters (who can’t even follow a thread and just insult) has no idea what is going on in this country.
A recent survey:
What are the most important issues to you heading into the 2008 election cycle? (select ALL that apply)
Fighting the War on Terror (97%
Securing our borders 93%
Reducing the tax burden 67%
Iraq War — Stay the Course 67%; (Withdrawal 13%)
Protecting the Unborn 59%
Stop Abuse of Marraige 58%
Gas costs 57%
Social Security 56%
Radical environmentalism/Global warming scare 32% (Protecting the environment 11%)
http://www.firesociety.com/article/21158/src=111
Well, Neal is only human, and subject to making mistakes, like assuming that the readers would be smart enough to read the article and figure out that its main thrust was his idea about how to solve the illegal immigration problem; not Huckabee.
Obviously, he was wrong -- it appears that it's more fun to chew the cud about a crooked politician than it is to discuss a relatively simple idea about the problem.
I'm sure glad I'm not a Huck supporter -- If I were, you'd really be getting you thong in a knot -- I I just don't think I could stand that.
By the way -- you are rather proficient yourself, with respect to just insulting folks, and having no idea what is going on in this country.
Everyone knows that the standard bearer for immigration is Duncan Hunter.
If Huckabee fizzles, his followers will be looking for another prolife evangelical to fill the void. Hunter fits that bill, no one else in the race is evangelical.
The GOP doesn’t get it. They need to let this faction find a home. The amount of invective aimed at evangelicals is surprising, but then everyone wants their votes.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
Prolife evangelicals will be very comfortable in Hunter’s camp, since he’s a prolife evangelical staunch conservative.
I know that there are illegals in Arkansas; aren’t they hired by Tyson, etc.? Man, how could he NOT know what a problem this is? All you have to do is take a look at life in the border states.
Middle class Americans here in SoCal are scrimping and saving to get their kids educated (difficult in the public schools, with the kids who do not speak English in the lower grades and the gangs in the upper grades) and give them the medical and dental care they need, while they see their own hard-earned taxes going to pay for everything for free for illegals.
It’s getting hard to “support your community” with charity when you hear that most of the funds then ALSO will go to illegal alien kids, the vast majority of the “poor.”
But I fear that Huckabee cares MORE for people who wouldn’t play by the rules than those who do, as evidenced by his pardon frenzy.
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