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has been stated about the reasons why we should have
"comprehensive immigration reform", but few are based
on anything other than feelings.
Let's strip
emotion from the debate and let's consider the hard reality of
immigration.
Nations have
every right to pre-define what their immigration policy will be
- that is, what constitutes legal immigration and to codify the
provisions and to set penalties for breaking the
laws. Over time, immigration standards may
change as needed and as nations evolve.
Nations and
States have every responsibility to define who will be let in
and who will not be. Nations who seek population
growth also want people who will contribute and who will not
become burdens on the legal society. There is
every expectation that an immigrant, chosen on a case by case
basis, should add to the gross domestic product of the country
he/she is seeking as a new residence. There is every
duty of a Nation to limit anyone who will cost the overall
society in economic or health terms. Nations
do not have to even justify their definitions of who is going to
be allowed. Each nation has a right to restrict whom
it wants or to grant entry in a legal way who it
wants. Immigration need not follow a politically
correct or bleeding heart standard. There is
no justification to grant admission as a citizen or visit based
on any terms other than strict contribution to the nation which
balances growth of the economy against mooches on the government
dole. Nations have a burden to their citizens
to not exacerbate unemployment and fiscal issues by taking on a
greater burden when the nation cannot support that.
What also must be
considered is that no person who is born in one nation has any
claim to live or to become a citizen in another
nation. There is no right to live where you
damned want if it means you have to cross the boundary of one
nation to live in another. There is simply no
grounds in the U.S. Constitution to guarantee you a right to
enter this nation if you were not born in this nation.
We hear so often
that there are tens of millions of people who are living here
who have violated almost every immigration law on the
books. Either these people have entered the country
against our laws or have over-stayed their temporary permission
to live or visit here. The proponents of
immigration reform try to use the excuse of the multiplicity of
criminality as an excuse to find a way to allow these folks to
stay; however, there is no provision in any national immigration
law that grants a law-breaker the right to turn illegality into
legal status of any kind. Furthermore, duration of
the good-tenure of those law-breakers is not a factor that can
be considered to make them turn from illegal status to legal
status. You have no right to expect that being
in violation of one or more laws will allow you at a future time
to become legal.
There is also no
provision to make any ethnic group a preferential group just
because they make up the plurality of the law
breakers. It is simply repugnant to suggest
that because you are Hispanic and the majority of the
immigration law-breakers are Hispanic that you are owed shit and
should have your illegality forgiven just for the hell of it.
Proponents of a
pathway to citizenship actually make a mockery of immigration
law - tens of thousands of people actually do follow the law and
do follow immigration provisions that we have established as
law. How is it that we can suddenly allow an
ethnic group to have preferential treatment just because they
have been here so long and there are so many of them that we
cannot possibly get rid of them all!
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Oh, really?!
What should be
done is to immediately notify all employers that you have a
responsibility to only hire legal immigrants and
citizens. Failure to comply with strict enforcement
of I-9 requirements should be met with significant penalties up
to and including closing your business down.
There
should be notice made to all landlords and real estate companies
that any and all restrictions on rental and property transfers
to non-legal residents will be enforced and all fines,
imprisonment, and property forfeiture should be enforced.
Making life
miserable for law-breakers is the only avenue that we have
available with regard to the immigration problem.
Any and all immigrants who are in violation of one or more
immigration laws enacted since 1986 when the last (and
supposedly final immigration law was enacted) should feel the
pain of being forcibly removed at their expense and without
remorse for their personal plight - you arrived here in
violation of immigration laws and should not expect an ounce of
consideration for your private situation. Your
longevity of your illegal stay and your contributions to society
have no factor in determining your guilt or innocence with
regards to the laws you have violated.
Yes, there should
be the fear in the heart of all illegal immigrants that they
could be deported without mercy. There can be
no mercy shown those who are so selfish and arrogant as to think
they are better than those people who choose to wait their legal
turn for immigration. And if the actions of
the nation to enforce the laws results in the death of illegal
immigrants, then so be it.
There can be no
grounds of compassion extended to immigrants who are effectively
criminals each and every day they live in a country they have no
right to occupy. Just because you may be doing
the job that is asserted that "no American" would work
does not give you the reason to enter this nation illegally.
If this nation
does in fact need to expand temporary work provisions for legal
aliens, let's address that issue and immediately disqualify any
illegal alien who is in this country from applying.
Let's not give these thieves of the American experience any
credit for time "served" and let's ensure they benefit
in no way from stealing their time here. In
fact, let us permanently ban any illegal alien who is here after
1986 from ever being a citizen and from ever getting any
benefits or healthcare or education. Let's
force these illegal immigrants to leave this nation and to take
their families with them or to leave their children born here to
be placed in legal adoptions.
The fact that so
many illegal immigrants live here should NEVER have any
influence on policy. The challenge for us to
deport all of these thieves is daunting, but we should be
resolved to enforce with the strictest level of judicial
prejudice our immigration laws. Zero tolerance
on those who are now here without legal authorization should be
our standard - nothing less. Our hearts should not
enter into a situation that is clear cut - in order to get here,
these people broke laws. And we cannot lower our
immigration standards to make law-breakers our base from which
we choose as future citizens and residents.
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