Immigration

[The Bull]

Let us not kid our selves the United Stated needs laborers.  The question is why so many laborers find that entering the country illegally is their only or best alternative to get here.

 

We should probably look at the situation inside our borders.  Once here there is very little in the way of employment, welfare benefits, health-care, freedom of movement, and education that is restricted to them. Every ten to fifteen years a President will grant amnesty so all you have to do is get here and eventually you will become a legal citizen.

 

If there were no benefits, no work, no opportunities, and no place to live, no schools, no health care for illegal aliens they would not be here.  In fact they would go home. We simply can not afford to continue enable people to come to this country illegally.  By allowing illegal aliens into the country we are discriminating against their rights and the rights of American workers. As a result of their illegal status they are underpaid; they have no bargaining power, workers benefits, and no social security benefits, they are virtual slaves to their employer, and they are taking jobs from citizens that would do the same work, if paid the benefits required by law. Furthermore we have no control of our borders we have no idea who is coming or going across that invisible line.

 

Anyone that enables illegal aliens should suffer exceptionally severe penalties not only employers but states and cities and individuals.  No less a punishment should be imposed then those who are guilty of embezzlement or harboring a criminal.

 

Discrimination against legal alien workers cannot be permitted.  They should have the same benefits, wages, and opportunities as a citizen. They would be required to pay the same local taxes, and would have to file an income tax return, just like anyone else. As a tax payer and with legal status they could send there children to school, and would have workers compensation, and unemployment insurance health care benefits. Opportunities would be available for citizenship if they so desire.

 

Illegal aliens often work as independent Contractors: this does not require employers to pay benefits but requires the employees to pay their obligations themselves this big part of the problem.  We have more and more our citizens are taking advantage of this loophole in our tax code by fraudulently declaring no income at the end of the year all yet making thousands in cash payments for services rendered, I am not a fan of taxes but we need everyone contributing to support our country. 

 

To come to America legally currently requires applying, then waiting often times many years perhaps decades, and often having to know where you are planning to go and who your employer is going to be, and an address of where you will be living. You may not be able to bring your wife or children until you have become a resident often fifteen years down the road. For many the questions and restrictions are impossible. The jobs for laborers often do not pay enough to allow a person to go through the necessary steps to get here in a legal way.

 

What we need to do is make it very easy to be a legal alien worker in the United States.

Workers ID cards could be issued at the border. The card would identify the individual as an alien worker this would have his photograph and finger print. It would remain with the worker at all times. It would establish an account for his Social Security benefits and a means of accounting for other workers benefits. It would positively identify them as a person that we would want in the country, one who does not have a history of crime and obeys immigration laws. Provisions could be made to track the persons whereabouts and employment history.  People not finding work would have to leave the country after a prescribed period of time. We could require that alien workers return to their home of record each year this would insure that they were not homesteading and were here just for employment.

 

The bottom line is that our government has made the situation what it is. By not enforcing established law it literally encourages people who are seeking a better life or a job to come here illegally.  Why because large farms, and businesses, and foreign governments, have encouraged our government to ignore illegal immigration, and state government agencies and schools are paid by the number of people they serve, regardless of their immigration status. Political parties use them as political pawns, not caring about them for any other reason, then the number of votes they may bring to their party

 

Why you ask, because it is more profitable to take advantage of a person’s illegal status? Employers can deny benefits, wages, and pay them under the table, in a way that no legal citizen would or could agree to. It makes businesses more competitive especially when government trade regulations allow unrestricted cheap products and produce to enter the country, repressing honest American competition.

 

With out illegal workers the government will have to protect American interest by requiring an import tariff that would protect American products and produce and would also need to protect American workers from the unfair labor practices of other countries, and it would increase the number of much needed jobs for Americans.

 

There is something else that should be considered. A needed a change to our laws, to require that any child born in the United States has at least one parent that is a U.S. citizen for that child to become a citizen. It would end another reason to cross the border illegally.

[Mangus Colorado]

Bull,

The answer is very old the 1950-65 program called Bracero guest workers - the Unions got the Democrats to kill the program when Cesar Chavez started to Unionize farm workers . . all the big Unions got behind him and the big push was on.

Well, that Union is now long dead and we are flooded with illegals. The Congress issued a order to the Border Patrol and the ICE to never raid FARMS - what does that tell all?

THE SOLUTION IS A REAL GUEST WORKER PROGRAM . . and no birthright citizenship. Work or go home - no welfare only emergency medical care.

[Rhodes]

Another old guy with a memory. 

They really cant be rid of us quickly enough err?