Raven over at And Rightly So just got me riled up on immigration. There are so many great ideas on the subject that are being blatantly ignored by anybody who's ever touched a lobbyist. Let me post a few. Feel free to throw in your one cent after taxes. I'll add your ideas to the list and we can make our own little immigration bill, right here.
1. A government funded and advertised hotline to report businesses that use illegal aliens.
2. An excalating, mandatory fine rate for businesses that hire illegals:
- 1st: $10,000 fine
- 2nd: $50,000 fine and 30 days in jail for the establishment owner
- 3rd: $100,000 fine, 1 year in jail and a revocation of the business license
3. build the damned fence. Stop saying it's coming and do it.
4. Escalate the real-ID act. Ensure no illegal can ever get one. Make it biometric enabled. Make businesses use it exclusively.
5. Reduce the time required (and cost required) to obtain a "green card".
6. Create a functional "Workfare" program. (It's viable if done right. If you need more of an explanation just let me know in comments.)
7. Greatly increase the ammount of "legal" immigrants allowed from bordering countries, mainly Mexico.
8. Require "real-ID" when sending money outside of the country.
9. U.S. Military reservist authorization for AT time (Your two weeks a year) to be in support of the border patrol.
10. Create and enforce (aka, kick them out when done) a guest worker program with full documentation.
10a. Make it so employers can pay people minimum wage. No extra crap for anything. The way it stands now they have to pay for their housing and other stuff.
11. Welfare, medicare, food stamps or any other charitable government services shall not be provided to non-U.S. citizens with the following exceptions:
a. The individual has been working legally and paying taxes for greater than one
year. The individual also needs to have maintained residence in the U.S. for
greater than one year with only USCIS authorized breaks in residency for not
more than two weeks within the afforementioned one contiguous year.
aa.
Individuals meeting these requirements will be considered for charitable
government services at the single with no dependencies rate unless dependents
are U.S. citizens, met the charitable government services requirements
themselves or lived legally and contiguously in the U.S. for no less than five
years.
b. Have been granted assylum from their country in the U.S. and would
not normally be considered criminals in the U.S. if they had done the same
things here as they had done abroad.
c. Special circumstances not previously
mentioned and on a case by case basis. Authorization for an individual can only
be given by the President, Governors, Senators, Congresspersons and the supreme
court. Authorization of an individual in a certain circumstance does not set
president for future authorizations.
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Okay, so yeah. This is a pet peave of mine. If you can throw more on the list by all means let me know what you have.
10 comments:
Mandatory life in prison without parole for Coyotes. (I don't suppose we can shoot 'em)
This is America. We speak American. Period. no habla espanol!
Stop doing business with Mexico until they become part of the solution.(maybe they can pay for half of the fence)
I like your ideas. Especially about holding business owners accountable.
1. And make taxpayers support these Coyotes for the rest of their lives in prison? I don't think so. I liked the "send them to a random country" solution, but that costs money too. When the illegals stop coming across the coyotes will have to find new employment.
2. SI!...er...YES! The official language of the U.S. needs to be english.
3. Yeah, that would be a nice idea but it will probably never happen. I thought of trying to charge Mexico "X" number of dollars for every illegal that came across their border. It would require an interesting treaty to pull it off though.
4. Thanks, I try.
Set up systems that reward companies to HIRE AMERICANS.
USE prisoners to do the work "no American" will do
Stop using that term above= there is no work an American won't do...
Accept and realize that Americans are worth more!
I don't want to increase the number of legal immigrants from Mexico. I think we need to re-implement a quota system until those who are coming agree and assimilate into our culture, instead of bringing theirs with them.
And I can stop the problem right away:
Give nothing to non-citizens.
No free education.
No free ESL classes.
No free healthcare.
No free housing.
No free welfare.
If you want to come here and work, work away -- but those who pay nothing into the system should get nothing out of it.
Ogre, I think you're on to something! It's costing Americans boatloads of money to support this "cheap labor"!
Americans vs. Welfare...hrm...
Okay, I'll write that one up fully....
It shall be numbah 11!
An excalating, mandatory fine rate for businesses that hire illegals:
The thorniest issue here is that a lot of businesses don't know they've hired illegals. When the applicant supplies the documents required for an I-9, either fake or borrowed, just what lengths can an employer reasonably be expected to go to in order to insure an illegal hasn't pulled a fast one on them? I work in a small business with high turnover, and believe me, the hiring process is arduous enough already!
Special circumstances not previously mentioned and on a case by case basis. Authorization for an individual can only be given by the President, Governors, Senators, Congresspersons and the supreme court.
Being that immigration status is in the federal domain, a Governor isn't really an appropriate agent for this task. What you describe is also an executive, rather than legislative, task; congress critters could make recommendations, but I don't think it's quite appropriate for them to be empowered to authorize special circumstances either. I'd say executives from the President down through DHS and ICE, as well as any federal court - not just SCOTUS.
How about #12 - real penalties for citizens who commit marriage fraud? Restitution of any and all benefits gained through fraudulent marriage from taxes to insurance rates, a cumulative fine of $5000 per year of the marriage (rounded up), and/or a recommended 10 weeks sentence per year (rounded up)?
This is America. We speak American. Period. no habla espanol!
Prensa el dos para Español.
No free healthcare.
Hmm. Nope, sorry. I can go with you on most of that, but denying healthcare to non-citizens who are here legally? No can do. I'm not necessarily ok with "free", but I think it should be provided on the same basis as it is to citizens - emergency treatment without regard to the ability to pay.
Prensa el dos para Español.
Press 3 for French.
Press 4 for Chinese.
Press 3,492 for Pig-Latin.
I agree with you Doug. It's inhumane to deny someone in need emergency healthcare. But I don't think it should be free to non-citizens regardless of their country of origin.
Doug,
If we were capable of getting the Real-ID program working the way it's supposed to be implemented all of your woes would dissapear. You'd get a card reader, number pad and maybe a thumb scanner. All that I-9 bullshit would dissapear. You'd just need the card and a finger. The national database would do the rest.
Special circumstances. You're right. I don't think congress/senate should get the vote. I'm a bit stuck on the governor part though. Even though they have the "pardon" authority it's only for states. Yeah, I guess you're right. No Governors either.
There could be a special USCIS panel for the "special circumstances" complete with yet another $500 form, completed in triplicate with your first born as a sacrifice....that brings me to another category I need to put in this thing...
12. Number 12 sounds perfect the way it's written. I'll be copying it directly.
Ogre has a good point. If you knew how difficult and even impossible it is for a lifetime American senior citizen to glean even a small portion of what they have paid over their lifetime, most of you would be horrified.
If you are not Senorita or Senior, you may as well forget most of the medical you were promised.
they're taking what we paid for, and laughing their heads off about it. Am I miffed. No I'm mad as H-E-double toothpicks!
And I am horribly disappointed in my country for allowing this to happen.
I really don't think a wall will stop them. There should be severe discipline for illegal immigration. As far as legal immigration is concerned, I think the good old USA already has her hands full.
We all know about birth control. It seems there should be immigration control also.
Let America take care of her own for a change. Wouldn't that be refreshing?
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