I'm glad you like it! When you figure it out, maybe you can explain it to me. I'd also like to know why if it will work 6 years from now to get 11 million illegals to leave when they revert from guests to illegals, why we couldn't just start doing it today.
My guess is that there is no intent that these guests will ever be made to leave and even if there is an intent our juevoless politicians won't be able to muster the political will to get it done. That is why I call it a shamnesty. There will just be an endless string of visa extensions and eventually, after maybe a dozen or so years we will find ourselves with an enormous group of second class citizens. It will be clear they live here permanently and are never leaving but they will be treated inferior to others because they will be denied things like Social Security (and they will eventually get old). It will be very tough politically to deny them these benefits when they have paid into the system and contributed to our economy. It will also be very tough to continue to deny them the vote. Taxation without representation in anathema to the American way.
I'd prefer to leave them illegal and let the anger of the American public continue to rise until eventually we start throwing some politicians out of office. At that point, I think we will get a real solution that does not involve amnesty.
And it does not need to involve mass roundups. That is a strawdog argument from the OBL that we have a black and white choice between amnesty and gestapo style roundups. It is a false choice. I have outlined a better plan in my post #277. Let the illegals self-deport.
Well, the guest worker program isn't supposed to be the part the makes people leave. It merely provides for legal immigration.
While it's been said by some that it allows an unlimited number of illegal immigrants, I think that rather misleading. It allows immigrants only for existing jobs, and requires that the employer first try and find an American worker.
There are employers who will likely try and not make reasonable attempts to hire Americans. But there are ways to make that more difficult.
However in reality, it's the other parts of the bill that need to provide a means to get those who shouldn't have come here or have overstayed their welcome to leave.
While the guest worker part gets the most attention, it's only part of their proposal. Their bill also provides for a lot more judges, more border patrol agents, more prison space, more work site investigators, more trial attorneys.
It provides $5 billion for investing in technology and checkpoints for border security.
Here's one that could work out well or backfire.
Requires aliens to have a minimum level of health coverage, which can be provided by the participating country, the alien or the employer
It could keep people coming here under the guest worker program from being a burden on our Gantry due to unexpected haelthcare needs. However, it could also be used to ask why if guest workers are guaranteed health care, why aren't American workers as well?
The bill does have provisions to work towards stemming the tide of illegal aliens coming into the country.
It has provisions to make it easier to catch those who are employing illegal aliens.
It gives us space to detain people who are caught so that they can be held until their deportation hearings, expands our ability to handle more hearings, and makes it easier to deport people.
The question remains as to if it is enough to make those who are in our country illegally leave.
More workplace enforcement combined with the choice of legal workers will reduce employers willingness to hire illegal workers. Will it be enough. I don't know.
However, I'm not seeing many realistic plans out there. The problem of upwards of 20 million illegal residents in our country isn't going to be simple to address.
If the 500 new DHS attorneys handle 10 million illegal immigrants. Lets say they can handle on average 5 cases a day, which may not be realistic. It would take them 11 years to go through 10 million cases.
Maybe the majority won't fight deportation. Maybe we can stem the flow of people coming in. Maybe more of those can be handled in groups allowing them to be handled faster.
I have to admit that the Kyl/Cornyn plan looks a bit anemic to handle the problem. Show me a better plan and I'll be happy to take a look. However, it needs to be implementable. It needs to have a chance of making things better. It can't just be a bunch of rhetoric.