There has been a mess created over the last 25 years. Republicans and Democrats share equally in having created it. There are now 11 million plus people living in the U.S. illegally.
If you want to turn back the hands of time and say it never should have happened, you are correct. But what say you know on how to correct the problem?
- First step is to seal the border so the problem does not get any worse.
- Next step is to require all that are living here illegally to register and put them through background checks. No crimes here or in Mexico and they get to stay.
- They have to pay a fee - the same as legal immigrants are required to pay plus a premium.
- They must be processed through a seperate system than the present system for legal immigrant applications.
- Legal applications get processed at a faster pace.
- At the age of 18, everyone must serve 2 years of compulsary military service (that’s everyone, not just those here illegally). There are plenty of miles of border to keep them busy. Call it desert training.
You left out turning off the government freebies spigot, and denying them jobs, via use of the E-Verify system.
In my view, that’s even more important than securing the border. If you shut down the magnet, they’ll stop coming all on their own. In fact, they’ll self-deport, as they’re doing in Alabama.
It’s easy to do, and it won’t cost the American tax payer a penny.
Didn’t you used to post as Dane?
Right. Who is going to do that, the same folks who Ubama has directed to not enforce the immigration laws and registration requirements already on the books?
Forget Newt's half-baked plan. Self-deporting is efficient. It needs to start with employers who seek advantage by hiring illegals. Employers who hire illegals should be at risk of losing their business. Just as trucking companies who hire convicted DUI drivers are at risk.
Oldplayer
Well, dumb a**, then they will all be deported for simply being here is a crime, add to that all of the document fraud they need to pull off just to stay here for 25 years or more and you have every single one of them committing felonies. Unless you are one of the idiots(including Newt)who thinks breaking our immigration laws isn't a crime.