Tag: new immigration law

Money Wasted on Border Security

Forgiving someone after breaking a law is amnesty.  Both Republicans and Democrats are interested in Hispanic votes for their party.  Neither cares about the well being of the country.  The Los Angeles Times reports that The $46-billion security package in the immigration bill would benefit aerospace, technology and security companies, as well as border   states.  This is an unnecessary expenditure.

We can obtain substantially reduced illegal entry into the United States by denying undocumented workers employment.

Emphasis is on Hispanics because they are the largest group of illegal aliens.  It has been reported that 40% of those in the country illegally are not from Latin America.  Under current federal law, it is illegal for any employer to hire, recruit or refer for a fee any alien not authorized to work in the United States.  For first offenders, there is a $250-$2,000 fine per illegal employee.  For a second offense, the fine is $2,000-$5,000 per illegal employee.  If the administration simply enforced the law there would be no problem and amnesty would not be an issue.

So why haven’t we simply enforced existing laws?  My guess is that leading members of both political parties do not have the stomach to deny anyone a job.  In addition companies that hire illegal aliens have a lobby that is successfully impeding government action against employers.

We need a new immigration law that provides for both migrant workers and high tech workers. The Senate bill would encourage more illegal immigration.

The Reason to Legalize Illegal Aliens

The vast majority of illegal aliens are poorly educated.  They compete for many of the jobs held by poorly educated and limited capability Americans.  That drives down the labor rates for the poorest Americans.

I have read the summary of the new immigration law being proposed in the Senate.  There are so many trip wires in the proposed law it does not seem likely that this bill will ever become law.  If it does, those entering the country illegally won’t receive “Registered Provision Immigrant (RPI) legal status” for at least five years and probably even longer.

The proposed law does nothing to prevent aliens who are bent on harming America from becoming legal residence and ultimately citizens.

19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother in the Boston bombing became a citizen just last year.  Having gone to American schools he had learned enough to earn his citizenship.

Then there is Alejandrino Honorato who came to the United   States in the early 1980s.  He obtained amnesty thanks to the Reagan amnesty plan.  He has a business that employs 60 people and that is good.  However, he still does not speak English well enough to converse with a reporter from Businessweek.  His story was told in the March 18-24 edition of that magazine.  How did he obtain his citizenship without being able to speak our language?

What do these two people have in common?  Neither really wanted to become Americans.

The Republicans want to compromise with the Democrats on legalization and citizenship of millions of immigrants because they are hoping to garner their votes in future elections.  This has nothing to do with “doing the right thing.”