Posted on 11/19/2010 2:29:13 AM PST by WilliamHouston
With the incoming Congress looking for accomplishments, here's one the Republican majority should take up immediately: immigration reform. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Republicans are its natural champions. The GOP led the way in 1986 and 1996, when partial immigration reforms were enacted. And a Republican Senate, with the support of President George W. Bush, passed comprehensive reform in 2006, only to see it die in the House. . . .
The best approach is a gradual and targeted legalization program that serves our economic needs. For skilled workers, employers should be in the driver's seat to identify who is most needed for economic growth. For low-skill jobs that few or no Americans are willing to perform, Congress should enact a robust temporary guest-worker program—and U.S. employers must accept mandatory electronic verification for foreign workers based on tamper-proof identification.
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What most conservatives won’t admit is that removing illegals will not be a just a matter of having law enforcement enforcing current laws. The border states are thoroughly infested with them and they are not simply going to leave. Make no mistake about it, attempts at mass deportation will lead to a large scale insurrection from Texas to California.
Good grief. Go away, Wall Street Journal.
There will be no insurrection.
The illegals will SELF DEPORT.
Unfortunately, that looks like where all this is headed regardless of who gets the upper hand in the next few years.
Self deport to where? The war zone that is Mexico? I don’t think you have a full grasp of the situation in the border states.
It certainly looks like it... but at least we have a better than even chance of blocking it.
LLS
From what I’m hearing from immigration control advocates, the DREAM Act is in very real danger of being passed during the lame duck session. This is going to be a close one.
Correctionshun...”yeah the WSJ sees the business opportunity but they don’t CARE ABOUT the welfare politics.”
only the little people pay taxes...I’d like to see just what if ANY tax returns have been filed by Goldman Sachs officers the last 10years....
I’ll be calling and faxing and doing whatever I can do to defeat it.
LLS
They will self deport when they are denied welfare benefits and measures are taken to punish employers who hire them by not allowing them to expense compensation to illegals, which will then cost more than hiring Americans. I’m saying that we won’t have to deport them. They will self-deport with the right measures in place. 100,000 left Arizona with a law that was greatly weakened by the courts.
How many of those 100,000 went back to Mexico and how many went to California, New Mexico, and Texas? Arizona is the border state in best shape currently, but when they have no where else to run, I can’t see them just returning to Mexico. They will gather in Southern California, South and West Texas, and along the border of New Mexico and will be protected by the local populations.
The point is to have these policies everywhere. For example, if employers cannot deduct illegal aliens compensation as an expense, it will be true in every state. Also, if people born to illegals are not citizens, it will be true in every state. If illegals can’t get jobs they will have to go home. The piont is we don’t have to deport 12 million illegals. And they all can’t go on welfare either because states are broke, especially California. The idea we have to accept law breakers as citizens is morally wrong, more to the point. We should never do this.
Fiinally, we can deport the bastars ourselves as some point, or begin deproting enough of them to stop the madness.
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