Americans are really a generous people. Despite our stated objective of keeping illegal immigrants from entering this country, the borders have not yet been closed to their continuing entry. Even more surprising is that we are not sending most of them back to their native countries. Is the reason we are not sending them back because these people, that everyone says are mostly Mexican, are doing jobs that most Americans won’t do or is this a corporate conspiracy to lower corporate labor costs? The answer is not clear.
Just enter the words “illegal aliens” into your internet browser and it becomes evident that opinions about these people are primarily against any legalization of their status. Starting with http://www.illegalaliens.us/ that claims “AMNESTY means never having immigration enforcement!”, to CRIME VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims.html to World Net Daily’s claim that illegal aliens threaten the U.S. medical system. Most talk radio hosts are rabidly opposed to giving any harbor to anyone who has entered the country illegally. Most of them stand with a crowd who do not want to grant any privileges to illegal aliens. Still, those same people usually acknowledge that we are not likely or able to deport those aliens.
However, enter the words “undocumented workers” into your internet browser and the first site listed is the “American Immigration Law Foundation” site that features “The Value of Undocumented Workers”, followed by many other sites that defend illegal aliens including one that states “About two-thirds of undocumented workers earn less than twice the minimum”. Twice the minimum wage is $11.70 per hour. It is obvious to me that we are not going to arrest all the illegal aliens in the U.S. and deport them. If we are going to permit those aliens to remain here we will have to provide them with documentation. This does not mean we immediately put them into the pool of those now here legally who have made application for citizenship. Here is my plan.
- Close the border to more illegal aliens effective December 31, 2007. This should be done with walls, barbed wire, and monitoring towers.
- Provide identification documents to every illegal alien who can prove he/she was here prior to that date. The identification would include social security cards that are similar to credit cards.
- Issue every legal resident in the country with new credit card style social security cards. If VISA and Master Card can manage their enrolled card holders then the holders of social security cards can be managed.
- The new social security card must be used by all employers to confirm the legal status of all current employees and new employees.
- Enforce high fines on all employers who defy the new regulations.
- All newly documented residents must learn English and apply for citizenship which will be granted after a ten year waiting period. Within a five year period all newly documented residents must be able to demonstrate their English proficiency.
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