http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2811256/posts
See my comments at post#11 above.
During the National Security debate held this evening, Newt Gingrich said we should be more “humane” in our treatment of illegal aliens.
At this point I’m not sure who I support - but whatever, it won’t be Gov. Romney for whom I vote.
With all due respect, Newt was very pointed in the humane treatment would only be applied after securing the border and then weeding out the illegal pool by very tough employment laws dealing with them. Then on a case by case basis allowing those who are productive and contributing to this country to apply for a status to keep working legally but without any rights that come with citizenship. That application would be pending a security background check they would have to pay for. Those who do not apply will be booted out.
But as we have seen with Arizona and Alabama, overnight after their new laws were enacted, the illegal flight was very noticeable. Only the most hard core criminals would have to be tracked down. That is where we make Sheriff Joe Director of the FBI, Ft. Huachuca becomes the main base for border enforcement as it was in the time of Poncho Villa and reform immigration laws to benefit legal immigration and not just another agency managed to create more work for attorneys.
People forget that we once had a “humane” policy, it was called the Bracero program. It was destroyed by Cesar Chavez who swore we had Americans who could do the job that Braceros signed up for. We didn’t. The result was that Food Machinery Corporation began to conceive picking machines. Hybridized seeds reduced the picking time. But, we still needed field hands. In California, once thousands of students worked the summer in the melon fields of the Imperial Valley, the grape sheds around Bakersfield, the canneries from Hayward on south. The minimum wage ended that. Like it or not, we will need Latino pickers and field hands for decades to come. And that means from the apple orchards of western Carolina to the apple orchards of the Yakima Valley. They should be scheduled and they should be treated humanely, and there is nothing wrong with saying so.