Immigration solution starts with employers
The obvious answer to the immigration question: heavy fines for American employers who hire illegal aliens. If hordes of Mexicans waiting to slip across our border learn they cannot find work, there will be no need of a fence or more border patrols. A contractor told me he wants more Mexican workers. "I pay them well; they want longer hours; a little rain does not send them home. All they need is a number."
A state university recently discovered that nine illegal employees had the same Social Security number, obviously forged. No problem, they were good workers and "each had a number."
Can Congress settle this dispute between security and eager employers? Are they a threat or benefit? They are here illegally, but are they really criminals? We cannot round up and deport a million people. Some kind of "amnesty" is necessary.
Give those here three months to get registered and get a one-year card. Impose heavy fines for employers who ignore the card requirement. After one year, consider extensions or deportation. Meanwhile, our police should check every lawbreaker for alien status and deportation.
Dick Douglas
Greensboro
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those same people who hire illegals (we won't be able to call them that much longer), are the same ones paying their lobbyists to have our politicians look the other way. in others words, there's a 100% chance this problem is here to stay and will only get worse...
there is no civilian solution.
Posted on June 30, 2007 6:53 AM
a more obvious solution: give them a reason to stay in their [often] rich native lands - which have been controlled by corrupt politicians in bed with big business - yes that's fascism - and the gap between rich (connected) and poor is unbridgeable.
Posted on June 30, 2007 6:59 AM
JDR, do not forget that it has oftentimes been the US which has fostered these corrupt politicians/governments.
As for this LTTE, "....heavy fines for American employers who hire illegal aliens." The "Reagan Amnesty" provided the same thing. However, there was no oversight in the program. Thus, we are in the situation we find ourselves now!
"A state university recently discovered that nine illegal employees had the same Social Security number, obviously forged. No problem, they were good workers and "each had a number."" This statement only validates my previous paragraph.
"Give those here three months to get registered and get a one-year card. Impose heavy fines for employers who ignore the card requirement. After one year, consider extensions or deportation. Meanwhile, our police should check every lawbreaker for alien status and deportation."
If the LTTE writer believes that any of the actions in the previous paragraph would happen, even if a law were passed stating such, then he needs to come back to reality. As for checking alien status and deporting those who are illegal, how can that be done when most are released from custody NEVER to be seen again?
This LTTE poses some good theorhetorical ideas, the probability of them working is very slim. At least this LTTE writer is posing a solution.
Shalom
Posted on June 30, 2007 11:14 AM
"Give those here three months to get registered and get a one-year card. Impose heavy fines for employers who ignore the card requirement. After one year, consider extensions or deportation. Meanwhile, our police should check every lawbreaker for alien status and deportation."
How about this instead?
Abolish the state here and in Mexico so that everyone will be more prosperous because government and business no longer collude to ensure that wealth and power remain in the hands of a few. Then many less Mexicans will want to come here because they can actually make a living in Mexico. True free trade will occur across the former border, benefiting both former nations.
Posted on June 30, 2007 12:05 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
Posted on June 30, 2007 12:06 PM
Strengthen the border, THEN grant the ones here either amnesty or prosecute them as criminals. Point being, the border must be strengthened before ANY other measures can be taken.
Posted on June 30, 2007 12:32 PM
Careful A-C, that's sedition
Posted on June 30, 2007 1:01 PM
"Careful A-C, that's sedition"
...it is our right, it is our duty, to throw off such Government...
Posted on June 30, 2007 2:12 PM