How about illegal and legal immigrants must register as “guest workers” or be deported. The guest worker program would include:
1. Flat tax on income applied to all the guest workers and tied to the real cost of illegal immigrants/guest workers on our government, infrastructure, legal system, law enforcement, and health care system.
2. No voting rights.
3. crippling fines to any business that employs illegal immigrants
4. Federal ID for guest workers.
5. a rational path to citizenship for guest workers (after so many years being a guest worker, English language comprehension, citizen tests, annual quotas, etc.).
6. Guest workers must agree to abide by our laws and will submit to our justice system.
Flame on (this is just an attempt to start a discussion)
If an amnesty deal is on the table, I don't understand why it would need to include a path to citizenship. Why wouldn't you stop at a path to a green card? These people entered illegally, there is no reason they should ever enjoy all of the privileges granted to legal immigrants.
There must be no path to citizenship. We need to be able to deport the criminals, and denying the vote to "citizens" would never fly.