“you are exactly where other candidates are fix the border, reform legal immigration and then regularize the 11 million here. Cruz spends his time excoriating other Republicans for squishiness, but when you get down to it, he’s exactly where they are” unwilling to undertake a massive, expensive, intrusive deportation program. In other words, he’s not an anti-immigration extremist; he’s just posturing as one.”
I don’t think we can truly secure the border.
What we must and can secure, if we act fast, is most of our money and property.
What I propose is an immigration amnesty/ Constitutional amendment deal:
1. Dreamers, Anchor Baby parents, and five-year+ full taxpayers, with exceptions (felons, those ordered deported, those who arrived after 2008, etc.) would get:
no deportation of qualified persons for 90 days, plus three days for each state that has ratified all of the Constitutional amendments we want.
2. We would get Constitutional amendments that would:
A. cap income/property taxation
B. bar federal wealth/property taxation
C. require federal benefits/welfare to be paid from a capped flat rate income tax
to be levied and collected on at least 90% of all federally taxable income
(plus FICA/Medicare taxes for medical/retirement benefits for people over age 65 of up to 10% total, equally paid by employee/employer
plus self-employment taxes no higher on a total federal income taxation basis)
[no more selectively plucking the pockets of a minority to buy votes]
D. limit the types benefits/welfare that may be provided by the federal government
[if it isn’t potentially life-saving, it isn’t allowed]
E. limit federal regulation of employee compensation to that of a uniform national minimum wage
[no more buying votes at employer expense]
F. restrain the judicial branch
3. To retain the right to stay, an immigrant would have to:
A. apply within 12 months
B. agree to make a donation (to be non-dischargable by federal bankruptcy law) of 10% of their pre-tax income
to the Social Security Trust Fund for 19 years, starting in 2020, and then pay by estimated tax due dates
C. obtain high-quality health insurance coverage, meeting applicable US legal requirements, without government subsidy, except via a small employer/small employers under general law, within 12 months
D. maintain (thereafter), except for involuntary gaps caused by state-licensed insurer financial defaults, health insurance coverage, meeting applicable US legal requirements, without government subsidy, while the PPACA is on the books
E. pay all standard and expedited immigration fees within 18 months
F. pay a $2,000 amnesty service charge within 24 months
E. pay all US income tax amounts past due, get privately audited at their expense and then pass an IRS audit, all within 36 months
F. pay a one-time, $5,000, non-refundable fee, if they wish to drive a motor vehicle on a US highway, prior to doing so
An immigrant would lose the right to stay:
1. for failing to apply and pay in a timely manner
2. for failing to timely obtain/maintain high-quality health coverage, except for involuntary gaps, while the PPACA is on the books
3. for knowingly taking a government health insurance subsidy after 2106, if not from small business employment under general law
4. for unknowingly taking a government health insurance subsidy and not returning it within 90 days of demand
5. prior to full ratification by twenty states, working for more than $20 per week (plus room/board/estimated tax fully paid/federally untaxed/health care benefits), except pay from agricultural work on farms
6. in the period after full ratification of all the associated amendments by twenty states
a. working more hours in a week than the number of states that have ratified all the associated amendments
b. getting paid more than $6 per week/per state that has ratified all associated amendments (plus room/board/estimated tax fully paid/federally untaxable/health care benefits), except
A. pay from agricultural work on farms or
B. the excess amount/amounts over $50, donated to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation within 10 days
C. or a smaller amount/amounts verifiably donated to a qualified federal tax deductible charity/charities within 10 days
7. getting paid more than $300/week gross, except as in (6), prior to full payment of all USCIS fees and past due federal income taxes and associated IRS charges
8. committing a felony
Once you forgive breaking one law, where do you stop? Punishment for law breakers is expensive. Prisons are expensive. But whatever EXISTING law proscribes for breaking immigration rules must be followed. I can not excuse immigration law breakers based on monetary reasons, inconvenience to family members, etc. I am sure bank robbers also have children and family who are terribly inconvenienced when the perp is found guilty and sent to prison.