Questions/Comments
#1 Who will keep out those not eligible? Who will keep track of the ones who do qualify while they are here? Who will make them leave when it is time for them to leave? We already have many who came here legally on the pretense of visiting, going to school, etc., and simply stayed when their time was up. Immigration has admitted they cannot keep track of those who came here legally and did not leave when they are supposed to now. Those millions who are here illegally now were not concerned with breaking a law to get here; why would we think they would worry about breaking another to stay here?
I like #2 and #3.
If you think #4 is the answer to #1 you are kidding yourself. We don't have enough facilities to detain the illegals, we can't keep out those deported now, without a fence the border is an open revolving door. We have done nothing but pour money at the border and yet we have a mass invasion of illegals. The first step in any plan is to build a real fence, no other plan will work without a major barrier. A major barrier must be in place before enforcement will be possible.
This plan is nothing more than a way to make the illegals legal. It in no way will solve the problems of illegal immigration. Illegal immigration will continue even if we had this plan, many (I would bet most) will not want to take the time and trouble to qualify legally, and will just continue to illegally cross the border.
If we build a real fence, and if we strictly enforce the laws as they are now, if we implement #2 and #3 of this plan and if there is proven to be a real need for labor then and only then should we discuss a "guest worker plan" remember previous plans to stop illegal immigration failed due to lack of enforcement and any effective enforcement is just not possible without a fence.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Increased enforcement and rapid deportation, along with a complete shut-down on the ability of illegals to work here (by passing strong legislation penalizing businesses for hiring them) is the ONLY long-term answer. The "fence" is a pipe dream. Even if the "fence" is built, do you honestly think the flow will stop?? It might slow down some, but in the main it will simply move "offshore" to our thousands and thousands of miles of coastline, and to our northern "friend" Canada--whose border is so long that it is impossible to "fence".