I am one of the legal immigrants, came here for post graduate degree in engineering on student visa, and after a long process of 10 years became eligible and was naturalized US citizen, a few decades back.
I am strongly against any amnesty to illegal immigrants. They should all get in line just like us legal immigrants. I did not immigrate to this magnificent country to tolerate law breaking. Every person living in US must have a legal status to be here. For migrant workers, a work-permit should be the minimum requirement so that we know who is here and doing what.
But nothing can really happen unless the borders are secured first!
You are correct.
If asomeone can come here without papers (WOPS) & not be challenged.....
Then why not grant them the ability to call themselves ENGINEERS? DOCTORS??? ACCOUNTANTS??? NURSES??? or any profession they can dream up and not require them to prove their ability in such professions? How would YOU like an illegal who declares himself a dentist or a doctor working on a member of YOUR family??? There is a man under arrest in the Reno area right now for PERFORMING SURGERY on people in HIS HOME who was an illegal. Perhaps he was licensed in whatever 3rd World country he came from, but he could not get such work here in the USA & caused mayhem on the people he convinced that he could ‘help’.
People work hard & pay for courses that give them the right to call themselves a professional in lots of fields.
This is basic, people.
WE CAN deport them, but to keep them from coming back, we have to have a serious fence & proper border guards. Perhaps that is the only employment our returning military will be instantly able to perform, but that is fine with me. I want an Israeli type fence, not a virtual fence.
I don’t have a virtual bank account. I don’t have a virtual car or truck. I don’t have a virtual refrigerator with virtual food that I purchased inside it. All of those items I have are real-—not VIRTUAL!!!!
A virtual fence is a joke.