The very first thing you need to understand is that if you support reducing immigration and stopping illegal immigration you are not in the minority. In fact, according to a 2006 Zogby poll, archived here, you are in the vast majority as noted in the following table.
See the
article for the rest of the poll results.
The MSM haven’t been telling you this stuff.
While
Americans overwhelming believe something should be done about out of control
immigration, legal and illegal, the MSM, our President and most elected
officials almost all take an opposing view.
Why?
In this
section I will propose specific solutions for what needs to do to solve the
problem. Specific things you can do to
facilitate the solution are addressed in the ACTION section.
While there
are many ideas and strongly differing views on “what to do,” we must recognize
that any program that rewards illegal aliens who have broken the laws of the
United States with citizenship is undeserved and unwarranted amnesty,
regardless of “what” it is called.
That said, what are we to do with the 12+ million
illegal aliens currently in the country?
If 12 million is a problem, then 25 million is a much bigger
problem. When a toilet backs up and is
overflowing, the very first thing you do is to shut off the water and then the
mess is cleaned up. This is common
sense that most in the Government seem to be missing. Maybe it is because they backed up the toilet?
In any case, illegal immigration must be treated
in the same way. This requires two
different set of actions: first slowing down and ultimately preventing entry
and second making it harder for existing illegal aliens to live and stay in the
US while simultaneously “encouraging” many to go home as well as deporting
others.
Before that can happen, it first means recognizing
that there is a problem. Unfortunately,
many people, including those in the MSM, business, and Government, regardless
of party affiliation, don’t seem to think there is a problem. As this paper as detailed, there is a dark
side of illegal immigration that is inflicting massive human and economic costs
on America. If you don’t think the
collateral damage being inflicted is worth saving ten cents on a head of
lettuce it is now your responsibility to convince others because doing
something about it will require significant changes in attitudes amongst the
powers that can actually do something about it.
Basically, it comes down to having the will
to enforce the law and solving the problem.
Political correct measures, such as a “guest worker program,” will not
solve the problem nor will they do much to reduce the collateral damage. As Heather MacDonald noted in Illegal
Immigration Myths “the threat of
enforcement must be credible.”
Former US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan from Texas
(1973-1979) and Chair, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, gave testimony on February
24, 1995, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
She stated:
“ To make sense about the national interest in
immigration, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the
law, and those who violate it.
Therefore, we disagree, also,
with those who label our efforts to control illegal immigration as somehow
inherently anti-immigrant. Unlawful immigration
is unacceptable.
We believe that
employer sanctions can work, but only with a reliable system for verifying
authorization to work. Employers want to obey the law, but they are caught now
between a rock and a hard place. The
current system is based on documents.
An employer must either accept those documents, knowing that they might
be forged, and thus live with the vulnerability to employer sanctions for
hiring someone presenting false identification.
We on the
Commission believe strongly that it is in the national interest for immigrants
to become citizens for the right reasons, not the wrong ones. We want immigrants to be motivated to
naturalize in order to vote, to be fully participating members of our polity-to
become Americans. We don't want to
motivate law-abiding aliens to naturalize just so that they can get food
stamps, health care, job training, or their homes tested for lead.
…deportation is
crucial. Credibility in immigration
policy can be summed up in one sentence: those
who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and
those who should not be here will be required to leave. The top priorities for detention and
removal, of course, are criminal aliens.
But for the system to be
credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
…Finally, the Commission recommends better border
management. Far more can and should be done to meet the twin goals of border
management: deterring illegal crossings while facilitating legal ones. But we have to recognize both goals.” (emphasis added)
How far have we come from that attitude? And would you believe that Congresswoman
Jordan was a Democrat? Maybe
Congresswoman Jordan, herself an African-American, understood that illegal
immigration hurts poor Americans and the Black minority the most.
As noted in a Heritage Foundation report, Alternatives
to Amnesty: Proposals for Fair and Effective Immigration Reform:
“Immigration reform should be a matter of national
priority. To be successful, reforms
must include a comprehensive package of measures to reduce illegal entry into
the United States as well as to reduce the current population of unlawfully
present persons. The cornerstone of any
such initiative must be a fair and practical program for repatriating foreign
persons who are illegally present in the United States.”
Interestingly, the US once
got very “tough” on illegal immigration.
As noted in Wikipedia,
in 1954:
“…the burgeoning numbers of illegal immigrants prompted President Dwight D.
Eisenhower to appoint his longtime friend, General Joseph Swing, as INS
Commissioner. According to Attorney
General Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower had a sense of urgency about illegal
immigration immediately when he took office.
In a letter to Sen. William Fulbright, Eisenhower quoted a report in The
New York Times that said: "The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican
'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been
accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way
from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of
the Federal Government."
Thus Operation
Wetback began
in California and Arizona and coordinated 1,075 Border Patrol agents along with
state and local police agencies to mount an aggressive crackdown, going as far
as police sweeps of Mexican-American neighborhoods and random stops and ID
checks of "Mexican-looking" people.
By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. 488,000 people fled the country for fear of
being apprehended. By September 80,000
had been taken into custody in Texas and, all told, the INS estimated that 500,000 to 700,000 illegal aliens had left
Texas voluntarily.
If Ike was concerned then, I
wonder what he would think now?
While new millennium sensibilities and enlightenment
probably excludes such actions today, preventing entry requires more border
security, including a physical barrier to keep out non-citizens who do not
respect the rule of law and sovereignty of the United States and who are
wantonly ignoring our borders. This is
not much different from locking the front door on your house to keep criminals
from simply strolling in and helping themselves to whatever they want. However, in this case many of those criminals
also want to molest and rape the women and children.
Border security must be the highest priority because if a
few million illegal aliens who simply want to work in the USA can gain access
then so can many hundreds of thousand illegal alien criminals who want to prey on US citizens, as well as a few hundred
thousands of illegal alien sexual
predators, and, of course, a few thousand illegal alien terrorists whose motive is to kill as
many Americans as they can. As it is
now, all three are happening.
Regardless, border security is mandatory to keep the previously deported illegal aliens,
often the hard core criminals, drug peddlers, and sexual perverts, from simply
returning when they are caught and actually deported. As referenced earlier in this report in the various examples of
horrific crime and traffic accidents, a large percentage were caused by an
illegal alien who had been previously
deported. Routinely the perpetrator
had been deported multiple times and often many, many times.
As noted in 2,179
Illegal Immigrants Arrested Half Have Criminal
Records; About 800 Have Been Previously
Deported the current
situation is more like a merry-go-round than any viable national border
security. Even illegal aliens who are caught selling false documents and who are
deported, turn back up in the same place a few months later.
While border security and enforcement has had some improvement, as noted in Fact Sheet: ICE Accomplishments in Fiscal Year 2006, there is still a long, long way to go.
We need a proper Border Fence. NOW! Without proper
border security most of whatever else we do will either be futile or very
inefficient, and most likely both.
As noted in a Judicial Watch article, Criminal
Illegals Live Freely in U.S. when the Government finally gets
around to actually doing something to enforce immigration laws it can be quite
successful. The article notes:
“It
took six years after the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history for the
government to finally complete the crucial database that has so far only been
used in three states and is vehemently opposed by immigrant rights groups that
claim it will lead to racial profiling.
But statistics, anecdotes of success and local police tell a much
different story.
In
only a few months the database has helped capture 130 illegal immigrants in
Southern California who would have otherwise been released on bond for their
repeat offense as well as 6,700 jail inmates.
A recent example is the case of a previously
deported Mexican man with a violent record who lived freely in Southern
California. He was arrested for trying
to rob a car and when his fingerprints were scanned into the federal database,
police instantly determined his criminal past, which includes convictions for
child molestation and grand theft auto.
The
Los Angeles County Sheriff said that without the new federal database, a
criminal such as this would have been freed on bail as deputies waited for
hours for federal and state officials to do a background check. The same would happen in thousands of other
cases, according to an official
who said “these people would be undetected
and released if we didn’t have this capability.”
As this paper has detailed, when we catch these
people and finally get around to deporting them, even after they have been
incarcerated for a time, most simply return.
We need the fence!
In the meantime, we need to recognize that illegal
aliens do not have the rights and privileges of American citizens. With the current exception of illegal
aliens’ children born in the United States, they are all lawbreakers and many
are taking advantage of services provided to citizens, making them not much
different than common thieves. They are
owed nothing and should not be treated differently than any other criminal that
is taking things that do not belong to them.
The fact that most come to the US illegally for
economic reasons does not change the fact that they violated the sovereignty of
the United States and jumped ahead of all the millions who are following our
immigration laws. Americans play by the
rules. Few of us would tolerate a line
jumper if we are waiting in a queue to buy concert tickets so why should we
allow it for illegal aliens?
In researching and writing this report, I have
read or reviewed a few thousand websites, articles, columns, and position
papers. About 1,200 are referenced in
this report. As one individual, I have
put together some thoughts on solving the problem. While only a few are original, as most were taken from or
influenced by those sources, they are all part of an integrated, cohesive,
realistic and comprehensive offering that addresses all aspects of illegal
immigration.
Some, like serious border security will take a bit
of money and time to implement.
However, even then, the costs are well worth it, given the damage that
is being inflicted. It is actually the
delay in getting serious and started that is even more costly as every day more
Americans are being molested, raped, killed and murdered while tons of drugs keep
pouring across the border.
However, some of my proposed solutions are fairly
simple and low cost to implement and will have an immediate affect on reducing
the massive collateral damage that is only growing larger with each passing
day.
In any case, to discourage illegal aliens from
being in the United States we must adopt policies and procedures that hinder
violation of our borders laws while simultaneously making it more difficult for
illegal aliens to stay.
If we limit the job opportunities we dramatically
reduce the incentives to violate our sovereignty for all the illegal aliens
that are coming to “only doing the work that Americans won’t do.” If many of the existing illegal aliens go
home on their own accord we solve the problem of needing to round them up and
deport them. As noted earlier, a “get
tough” attitude and approach will encourage many of the “non-criminal”
illegal aliens to leave of their own accord.
These two axioms will greatly reduce the
collateral damage that is being inflicted on American citizens and free up law
enforcement resources to track down the illegal alien criminals, gangsters, and
perverts who won’t leave without the heavy hand of the law coming down on them,
catching and deporting them.
In any case, we must be fed up with the current
situation enough to do something about it.
Accordingly:
The most common method of identification, the driver’s
license, is too unreliable to be used nationally as many states do not require
proof of citizenship. To see how secure
your state’s license is see Coalition
for a Secure Driver’s License.
As previously noted in the Traffic Accidents section, illegal aliens
flock to states such as North Carolina with minimal documentation requirements
to get driver’s licenses. It is also worth noting that most of the 9/11
terrorists had driver’s licenses. In
fact, altogether the 19 terrorists of 9/11 were holding 63 state
driver's licenses.
As Lars Larson and others have proved,
anybody can get a Maticular Consular ID Card.
The US Border Patrol
says that the Matricula
Consular Card is Worthless as an ID.
The FBI says that the Matricula
Consular Card is Worthless as an ID.
See the Testimony of
Steve McCraw, Assistant Director of The Office of Intelligence, FBI Before the
House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims on
Consular ID Cards.
Some states, notably the ones providing
“sanctuary,” and the Mexican Government want to make these Matricula Consular
cards, which are non-verifiable as to the identity of the individual, legal
ID. However, they are so lax that Bin
Laden could get one and then use it to get a U.S. drivers license and drive the
streets of America casing the next big hit.
To see if your
bank accepts this bogus identification, as well as ones that don’t, go to US
Banks that accept Illegal Alien IDs and the good/bad banks
list. If your financial institution
is not on the list ask.
Change your bank
if they accept this Mickey Mouse ID.
To correct this problem now, Congress has the power to
disallow use of any foreign ID, except a passport, to be used for any
interstate activities, including banking.
If you don’t think they are controlling banking now, try taking more
than $10,000 in cash through customs. In
any case, a simple change to interstate baking requirements would do it.
These provisions need to be incorporated into the REAL ID
provisions of Public Law P.L. 109-13
which prohibits Federal agencies from accepting State-issued
driver's licenses or identification cards unless such documents are determined
to meet minimum security requirements.
States that reject the REAL ID should lose all
Federal Highway funds. If they don’t
give a damn who is driving on their roads, let them pay all the costs for
building those roads.
Currently our Social Security number is already a de-facto
national ID card but the card is too easy to counterfeit and the number is too
hard to verify. Thus, we need an easily
verifiable, non-counterfeitable SSN card, including picture and biometric data,
and legislation that makes it mandatory for doing work and receiving benefits
in the USA.
In
affect, this is a national ID card but, like it or not, times have changed and
9/11 changed everything. We are no
longer insulated by oceans. Having the
current and mostly worthless ID cards we use now won’t do you a whole lot of
good if you are killed by illegal aliens terrorists when they nuke New York
City or Washington DC, or when ten illegal aliens are using your stolen
identity and your credit is destroyed.
At
this point it is worth noting that the Use of
fake documents by illegal workers on the rise so “the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services office has started a program to help identify illegal workers. Under the Pilot
Employment Verification Program, participating employers put a worker's
reported name and Social Security number onto an Internet site to make sure the
data matches and the number is legitimate.
It's free and voluntary and has been available to employers in all 50
states since December 2004. Still, only
12,000 of the United States' 12 million employers take part, according to
industry officials, and the program has its weaknesses.”
If MasterCard can provide immediate and trusted verification, what is the problem?
We also need to
immediately shut down the counterfeit document rings in the US such as the one
operated by the Castorena-Leija Sanchez
Organization which has revenue estimated to be in the $300 million range,
annually, which is a LOT of false ID papers.
Not being able to get jobs,
drivers’ licenses and bank accounts will cause many illegal aliens to go home.
This means that we need to get really serious about
enforcing immigration violations. As
reported by Heather MacDonald in The
Illegal-Alien Crime Wave:
“Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gang-banger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD’s rule against enforcing immigration law.
The LAPD’s ban on immigration enforcement mirrors bans in immigrant-saturated cities around the country, from New York and Chicago to San Diego, Austin, and Houston. These “sanctuary policies” generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.
Such laws testify to the sheer political power of immigrant lobbies, a power so irresistible that police officials shrink from even mentioning the illegal-alien crime wave. “We can’t even talk about it,” says a frustrated LAPD captain. “People are afraid of a backlash from Hispanics.” Another LAPD commander in a predominantly Hispanic, gang-infested district sighs: “I would get a firestorm of criticism if I talked about [enforcing the immigration law against illegals].” Neither captain would speak for attribution.
…Meanwhile, millions of illegal aliens work, shop, travel, and commit crimes in plain view, utterly secure in their de facto immunity from the immigration law.”
No more sanctuary will
cause many illegal aliens to go home.
While everybody knows that certain industries routinely hire illegal aliens, remarkably few employers are ever prosecuted. As noted by CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, since 2001, out of five and a half million employers in the U.S., only 318 have been fined for hiring illegal aliens. In 2004, only three employers were fined.
While the problem has already been bad over the last
decade, and growing worse, the Government has done little about it as noted in
the following chart from a Bear Stearns report, The
Underground Labor Force is Rising to the Surface:
A simple step in the right direction that could be done NOW is to change the rules at the SSA regarding duplicate SSNs. Right now, incredibly, fifty people could be using the same SSN and hardly anything is done. Much of the ID fraud and illegal employment could be dramatically reduced if Congress required the SSA to immediately notify both employers and individuals when a duplicate SSN is being used.
If American Express can provide immediate and trusted
verification, what is the problem?
As noted in Illegal
immigrants steal identities to get jobs:
“Of 231 million Wage and Tax Statements (W2s) filed by
employers during tax year 2004, 8 million did not match. (This figure is not exclusive to identity
fraud. It also includes numbers that
did not match for different reasons, such as name changes). Californians owned 29 percent of those
mismatches, the greatest number of any state.
"It is identity fraud," said Beth Givens,
director of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego-based nonprofit
organization that helps consumers with privacy rights issues.”
Again, much of the ID fraud and illegal employment could be dramatically reduced if Congress required the IRS to immediately notify both employers and individuals when a duplicate SSN on a W2 is being used.
Right now, today,
neither the IRS nor the SSA are very cooperative in preventing the fraud as
noted in a April 2006 report, Agencies
won't share immigration evidence, where it was
noted:.
“Two federal agencies are refusing to turn over a mountain of evidence that investigators could use to indict the nation's burgeoning workforce of illegal immigrants and the firms that employ them.
Last week, immigration cops trumpeted the arrests of nearly 1,200 illegal workers in a massive sting on a single company, but they admit that they relied on old-fashioned confidential informants and an unsolicited tip to get their investigation going.
It didn't have to be that hard.
The IRS and the Social Security Administration routinely collect strong evidence of potential workplace crimes, including names and addresses of millions of people who are using bogus Social Security numbers, their wage records and the identities of the bosses who knowingly hire them.
But they keep those facts secret.
"If the government bothered to look, it could find abundant evidence of illegal aliens gaming our system and the unscrupulous employers who are aiding and abetting them," said Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz.”
How prevalent is the false documentation and how easy should it be to catch? See the ICE new release where it was reported:
“ICE agents arrest seven managers of nationwide pallet
company and 1,187 of the firm's illegal alien employees in 26 states. Roughly
53 percent of the firm's employees during 2005 had invalid / mismatched Social
Security numbers.
… The affidavit further alleges that
approximately 53.4 percent of the Social Security numbers contained on the IFCO
Systems North America Inc. payroll of roughly 5,800 workers during 2005 were
either invalid, did not match the true name registered with the Social Security
Administration for that number, or belonged to children or deceased
persons. The Social Security
Administration sent at least 13 written notifications to IFCO headquarters
about such discrepancies on its payroll records in 2004 and 2005, the affidavit
alleges.”
But it was too hard for the SSA to pick up the phone and call DHS with “we have identified a problem.”
How much do the two Government agencies know? As reported in The Secret List of
ID Theft Victims, in 2002 the SSA knew about 9 million mismatched
SSNs. While some are from valid
mistakes, name changes, marriages, et cetera the vast majority are as a result
of illegal aliens. As an interesting
aside, this number would also indicate that the illegal alien population is far
higher than most government agencies and immigration friendly sources admit.
As it is now, the IRS
comes after YOU for back taxes owed on the seven jobs you were simultaneously
working at in different cities and not paying any taxes on because you were
also declaring twelve dependents.
Employers also need to be held more accountable for verifying Social Security numbers and immigration status before hiring and be put on notice that hiring illegal aliens is simply not acceptable.
If stiff fines won’t work then some jail time will. We did it with Martha Stewart and Enron executives who violated the law and ripped off shareholders, why not employers who are violating the law, taking advantage of illegal aliens, denying employment at a fair market wage to citizens, and passing the bill for subsidized illegal workers to taxpayers? A rip-off is a rip-off.
Even when one of the largest companies in the United
States, Wal-Mart,
was found to be knowingly hiring illegal alien cleaning crews, and paying
them a lower wage, they did not get fined.
If DHS would arrest a few senior Wal-Mart executives rather than some IFCO
Systems North America Inc supervisors maybe something would actually get
done. Wal-Mart scrapped their “buy
America” policy after Sam Walton died to increase their bottom line profits a
bit, so maybe some jail time will cause them to scrap their “hire illegal alien
workers at an even cheaper rate” policy as well.
Thus employers who are egregiously violating the law need
to be vigorously prosecuted and fined to put the “fear of God” into other
employers who are violating existing laws.
This will also level the playing field for those companies in industries
with a high percentage of illegal alien workers who are trying to play by the
rules.
Most people who can not speak English and who are applying
for a job are most likely illegal aliens.
Legal immigrants in the same situation will have proper documentation. There is nothing in the Constitution that
defines “not speaking English” as a protected status. This is not rocket science.
No jobs will cause most illegal aliens to go home.
While seemingly harsh, it is also unjust to put the burden
on the taxpayers. Let the many illegal
immigrant supporters pick up the tab through private and charitable giving
until the illegal aliens return home.
There is nothing stopping them from sharing their home and dinner table
with illegal aliens. The social
programs designed to help American citizens are now being abused to provide
services to illegal aliens. This is
both drawing them here and enabling them to stay here.
No more welfare will cause many illegal aliens to go home.
It is a requirement for citizenship to be able to read,
speak and understand English. The only
non-English speaking people in the country would be either tourists or legal
immigrants. Both of those welcomed
groups will have proper documentation and when a legal immigrant doesn’t happen
to have their papers they are the only “undocumented immigrants” in the
US. Everybody else is a citizen, tourist
or an illegal alien.
As noted by a Pro-English article, Since when is
speaking English "discrimination?":
“Executive Order 13166 says that any entity which receives federal funds must provide whatever services it offers in any foreign language spoken by anyone likely to receive those services. It says failure to do so is likely to constitute "discrimination on the basis of national origin" as prohibited by Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights law. Signed by President Clinton on August 11, 2000, the order directs all federal agencies to draft plans to "improve access to federally conducted or federally assisted programs for persons who, as a result of national origin, are limited in their English proficiency.
This executive order gives the United States hundreds of all-but-official languages.”
It uses power
that was never delegated by Congress and has been repeatedly denied to the
Executive Branch by the courts. When
Congress wrote the 1964 Civil Rights Law, language was never considered a basis
for determining discrimination. It is
self-evident that a person's national origin, which cannot be changed, is not
the same as the language someone speaks.
President Bush could easily and immediately rescind this
outrageous Executive Order.
If he wanted to.
It is especially egregious to be printing voting
instructions and ballots in anything but English as only citizens are allowed
to vote and reading and understanding English is a requirement for citizenship
and thus voting. The 1965 Voting Act
should be immediately amended, deleting the foreign language provisions.
Making English the official language is mandatory because
illegal alien friendly bureaucrats and activists are now defining requiring the
speaking of English as discrimination as noted in City Commision: Geno’s
“speak English” sign discriminatory.
When the ACLU complains and files suit, the Justice Dept.
should litigate them out of business.
It is far better to set kids back a year than to simply
pass them through not being able to properly speak and read English and
ultimately end up being many years behind, or dropping out altogether.
In place of the grossly ineffective ESL bureaucracies and
special interest groups in the education system, modern language teaching
methods such as those offered by the Rosetta
Stone should be employed. The Rosetta Stone ESL Education
program is remarkably effective, efficient and fast in teaching English to
non-English speaking people. It is also
very cost effective. Additionally, the
Rosetta Stone program provides native English speaking students the opportunity
to quickly learn one or more of 28 foreign languages.
Somebody needs the will to stand up to the NEA and tell
them to concentrate on Reading, Writing and Arithmetic so Johnny can read and
Suzy can add instead of wasting more human and financial resources on their
mostly ineffective ESL programs.
On arrest and impounding, the driver’s license and the
car’s registration and insurance are to be thoroughly investigated. If the license is counterfeit the driver
will be charged with a felony and jailed.
If the car’s papers are fraudulent, the car is to be seized. If the car has a free and clear title it is
to be sold at auction. If the title is
held by a loan company, a fine equivalent to 25% collateral, based on blue book
fair market value, is levied, and, when paid, the car is returned to the lien
holder. If the fine is not paid the car
is sold at auction. Similar penalties
could also be implemented for DWIs committed on Federal highways, regardless of
citizenship.
When illegal aliens start getting their uninsured and
improperly registered cars confiscated, many will go home.
As noted in Identity and Immigration Status of 9/11 Terrorists: “According to the March 28, 2002 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert Thibadeau, director
of Carnegie Mellon's Internet Security labratory, says that "the 19
terrorists on Sept. 11 were holding 63 state driver's licenses for identification." Go to the February 2007, New American article, Illegal
Immigrants in a State of Disarray, by Kurt Williamsen to see how sanctuary policies in working Wisconsin’s Department of Motor
Vehicles facilitates this practice.
While the REAL ID provisions of Public Law
109-13 corrects the security disparities
in state issued driver’s licenses, it does not address the lack of registration
and insurance issue.
Since fraudulent out-of-state documentation is often used,
a national database should be established to provide law enforcement with
immediate verification of all three.
Any driver convicted of driving without insurance will be required to
prepay a years worth of insurance and any subsequent cancellation or
non-payment of insurance while the car is still owned by the driver or anybody
else at the same registering address will result in the car being
impounded.
Driving a car on public roads is a privilege that comes
with responsibilities and it is grossly unjust to put the burden of
irresponsible behavior on the law abiding public.
When illegal aliens start getting their uninsured and
improperly registered cars confiscated, many will go home.
While it is highly unlikely the US will actually deport
hardly any of the existing 12+ million illegal aliens, making being in the
country illegally a felony makes it a whole lot easier to deport certain
undesirable illegal aliens as well as newer illegal aliens. It also denies citizenship and all its
inherent privileges to lawbreakers who entered the country illegally. The only thing worse than accommodating
illegal aliens is allowing illegal aliens to vote which is the main privilege
of citizenship.
As it is now, filing a federal tax return is a gateway to
abusing the system. See: Top
10 Reasons to File Individual U.S. Tax Returns if you are an Undocumented
Immigrant.
In any case, the Federalist Blog notes: Alien
Birthright Citizenship: A Fable That Lives Through Ignorance. Also see Our Constitution
and Our Borders, by Neal Ross in News With Views for some historical
and legal perspectives.
The US Visa
Policy should also be changed to prohibit the entry of obviously pregnant
women until the nationality birth provisions of the 14th Amendment
are clarified and enforced.
When illegal aliens can’t get anchor babies, many will go
home.
If Kennedy wants to fraternize with and pander to terrorists let him
go to their country.
250,000 a year for ten years is much more realistic than
the current 1+ million. To do this, the
family-preference provisions of the US visa program must also be immediately
amended to delete the chain migration of extended family members. (See H.R. 6283,
Nuclear Family Priority Act.) We
must also get back to limiting refugees to those in danger of persecution or
death for religious or political beliefs.
Limiting the number of refugees will also require taking a hard look at Diversity
Lottery and the Temporary
Protected Status we are giving to various countries. We want immigrants that are a benefit to
America, not immigrants that simply meet some politically correct guidelines.
In any case, revolutionary and civil wars are not valid
reasons. In 1776 and 1812, when the US
population was about 3 million we incurred over 17,000 killed and wounded (plus
an unknown number of civilian causalities) securing our freedom. In 1860 when our population was only about
32 million, we had 970,227 killed and wounded Americans in our Civil War. We have also lost another 430,000 Americans,
with another 1 million wounded, fighting for freedom for mostly other people’s
countries. Freedom is not free.
Immigration is the driving factory behind the explosive
growth of the population in the United States.
Exactly how many people do we want in the USA at the end of this
century: 400 million, 500 million or a BILLION? At the present growth rate, there will be a billion people in the
United States within the lifetime of a child born today. Is that what we want? Since the population affects so many aspects
of American society from the environment to needing more HOV lanes on the
already crowded freeways, we need to have a national consensus on what the
population and population growth of the United States should be.
While we are at it, we need to reduce the personal
exemptions for children for taxes. The
US is now a populated country and heading into some serious
overpopulation. If a couple wants to
have ten children that is their business but it is unjust for the rest of the
taxpayers to be paying for them.
Starting now and over the next fifteen years, one child exemption should
be removed each year until the maximum number of personal exemptions for
children is three. An exception would
be made for all adopted children and “Brady Bunch” families would get double
the number. The deductions for the
first two should also be increased to help ensure a stabile population.
Additionally, who is getting visas must be greatly
tightened. As noted by Mark Krikorian,
Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies, in a May 2006 testimony Visa
Overstays: Can We Bar The Terrorists Door? before
the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations:
“But as important as border security is, it is not
sufficient. It has to be supplemented
by a tightly run immigration system inside the country, and there are a lot of
different aspects to that. But this issue of visa overstays is one of the most
important ones.
I don't mean to be pedantic about it, but, strictly
speaking, it is not the visa that is being overstayed, because the State
Department issues the visas. It is the
length of stay that the immigration inspector gives the person that is
overstayed.
Estimates are that something like as much as 40
percent—maybe 30 to 40 percent—of the illegal alien population is made up of
overstays. So we are talking about
maybe 4 million or more people among the illegal aliens are visa
overstays. So this really is an
extraordinarily large part of the general illegal immigration problem.”
As noted by in How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy:
“If America is ever to make immigration work for our economy again,
it must reject policies shaped by advocacy groups trying to turn immigration
into the next civil rights cause or by a tiny minority of businesses seeking
cheap labor subsidized by the taxpayers.
Instead, we must look to other developed nations that have focused on
luring workers who have skills that are in demand and who have the best chance
of assimilating. Australia, for
instance, gives preferences to workers grouped into four skilled categories:
managers, professionals, associates of professionals, and skilled
laborers.
Using a straightforward “points calculator” to determine
who gets in, Australia favors immigrants between the ages of 18 and 45 who
speak English, have a post–high school degree or training in a trade, and have
at least six months’ work experience as everything from laboratory technicians
to architects and surveyors to information-technology workers. Such an immigration policy goes far beyond
America’s employment-based immigration categories, like the H1-B visas, which
account for about 10 percent of our legal immigration and essentially serve the
needs of a few Silicon Valley industries.”
At minimum, since it is a Federal
mandate, the Federal Government should be responsible for 100% of the mandated
costs.
Keep in mind, however, that the Federal
Govt. only gets its money from taxing the citizens so unless some dramatic
changes to the EMTALA are made, the costs will continue to climb with taxpayers
still footing the bill. But, until
then, at least your local hospital or emergency room won’t be closing because
of uncompensated federal mandates.
When illegal aliens can not get free medical care, many
will go home.
This would include people holding dual citizenship as you
are either an American or you aren’t.
Additionally, the misguided Federal Campaign Finance Law should be
immediately amended to dramatically raise the individual contributions, require
public notification reporting within 3 business days, and delete or
dramatically lower all soft money to PACs that finance all the misleading and
obnoxious slime ads otherwise known as “issue advocacy advertisements.” Who is kidding who?
As is, too many are
profiteering from their limited “public service” and selling the USA out.
The illegal alien
supporters don’t seem to mind that Americans are being molested, raped, killed,
and murdered as a result of their actions and that the economic burden and
consequences are being passed to the taxpayers, so it is time to hold them
accountable for their decisions.
As noted by Neal Ross in a News With Views commentary, Our Constitution
and Our Borders:
“James Madison, our 4th President, mindful that there would
be those who would tinker with the Constitution admonished these meddlers
thusly, "Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you
will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a
distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."
The separation of text from historical background is a
common occurrence in our nation today.
Advocates of one cause or another routinely alter and misrepresent the
meaning of various portions of the Constitution to justify divers, and often
conflicting, agendas. These campaigns
and causes seem to be endless in number.
We know that many provisions of the Constitution have been subverted,
and we know also that the false extrapolations of the meaning of these
provisions, as intended by the authors, has bastardized our government. These crusades for social change seem to be
rampant and endless and the peddlers of the same look to the Constitution to
justify and stimulate the social changes, which they desire, but which are
totally unsupported by the provisions of the Constitution. The changes in Immigration sought by the
president and the congress clearly point up this conflict between the intent of
the Constitution and the wants of these politicos.”
If Mexico doesn’t want all their residents back we should
demand two barrels of oil a week as compensation for the collateral damage and
for taking care of them. Even then that
would only be about $78 billion a year at $50/barrel. We would, however, hire Mexican illegal aliens to help build the
pipeline.
It is worthwhile to note that most legal immigrants have restrictions
placed on them so that they are not a burden on society and have
responsibilities placed on them before they can become citizens. It is worse than asinine to give amnesty to
millions of illegal aliens just because they happen to be here, and then pay
them to stay here, when there are millions of potential aspirants to
citizenship who are following the law on the waiting list. If we require legal immigrants to jump
through all the hoops,
should anything less be required of illegal aliens that we “allow” to remain
here to “earn” citizenship?
The question Americans need to be asking themselves and our politicians is
exactly what kind of immigrants do we want in the United States?
Do we want educated, hard working, law-abiding, aspirants of becoming
Americans or uneducated illegal aliens who, for the most part, are a major
economic burden on society, with many having strong anti-American
attitudes?
Do we want decent people with good values or criminals who are ripping
off, molesting, raping, killing, and murdering the citizens of this country?
With all the talk over the lives of American service personnel lost in
fighting the war on terror, illegal
aliens kill far more Americans every year than the total lost in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
And we don’t have any children fighting in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
What to do? When
you can answer this question, you will know what to do:
Exactly
how many Americans are YOU willing to allow to be ripped off, infected,
molested, raped, killed, and murdered to save ten cents on a head of lettuce?
While many anti-illegal alien groups and supporters would
like to, we simply can not round up and ship some 12+ million illegal aliens
back to their home countries. Even if
we could, children of illegal aliens who are born in the United States are, by
commonly held interpretation, American citizens. Even if the 14th Amendment was reinterpreted it would
not be applied retroactively.
Additionally, it would not be just to punish the
children for the sins of the parents so even children who were not born in the
United States but have lived in the US most of their lives are, by default,
Americans, at least in name. It is
uncompassionate to deport otherwise law abiding illegal aliens who have been
working in the United States for many years.
It is also un-American to break up families that have been living in the
USA for years.
Thus whatever we do we should make a compassionate
allowance for otherwise law abiding illegal aliens who have lived in the United
States for many years and for the parents of children born in the United
States. That is the American way.
However, it is also the American way to play by the
rules. To become a naturalized citizen
of the United States, there are quite a number of requirements that must be
met. To see how difficult and stringent
the process is refer to A Guide to
Naturalization.
Becoming an American citizen is one of the most coveted
opportunities available on planet earth.
For those who have not done it or are not aware, it is not an easy or
timely process. In summary, the main
requirements to become a naturalized citizen of the United States are as
follows:
One of the requirements to become a naturalized citizen is
an Oath
of Allegiance to the Constitution and the United States. In that oath, the citizen want-to-be swears:
“That I absolutely
and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign
prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been
a subject or citizen; That I will support and defend the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; That I will bear arms
on behalf of the United States when required by the law…”
Should anything less be expected of an illegal
alien before we even think of granting them citizenship? How is granting de facto citizenship to
illegal aliens, especially through a guest worker program with its Mickey Mouse
“path to citizenship” being fair to the millions who are waiting in line to
become legal immigrants? The price for
an illegal alien to receive one of the most coveted rewards on planet earth
should not be simply that they picked lettuce for a few years or faithfully
flipped burgers, cleaned toilets or dug ditches. There are millions of potential legal immigrants who would gladly
do those jobs.
Nor should we allow an illegal alien to simply pay
some miserly fine to receive amnesty - becoming
an American is not for sale at any price except in death fighting for this
country!
Given that there is a legal way to become an
American and millions have eschewed that way and are in the United States
illegally and it is not plausible to round the law breakers up and send them
back, what are we to do?
First and foremost, no purchased amnesty! America
is not for sale! Becoming an
American is a privilege, not a right of “being here.” Too many Americans have died preserving freedom to allow
citizenship akin to paying a ticket for a traffic speeding fine. The violation of our sovereignty and the law
breaking must be punished and citizenship must be earned. It is because of the failure of our
elected politicians that we have the problem and it is only through the
magnanimity and generosity of America that we would even consider granting
citizenship to lawbreakers.
So what do we do?
Well, we could simply adopt Mexico’s
immigration policies but that would be too cruel and very
un-American. While I may agree with
former US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan from Texas in “those who should not be
here will be required to leave” and may be personally inclined to round up all
illegal aliens and their families and return them to their home countries,
making them get in line for becoming bona fide guest workers or legal
immigrants, I recognize that that is an unworkable and unrealistic solution for
a variety of reasons.
The biggest obstacle to such
a draconian solution is political, as most of our politicians do not have the
fortitude or integrity to enforce the laws of the land. For this reason alone it is unrealistic,
unless we vote them all out. But that
would take time and in the meantime the tsunami keeps pouring in and the
collateral damage keeps mounting.
If you don’t think that
aspect is important, go back up to the CRIME and TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS sections and
start clicking on the links of Americans who were molested, raped, killed, and
murdered by an illegal alien.
Especially take note of the crimes that were committed by an illegal
alien who was previously deported or
one who should have been previously
deported.
Every day that nothing is
done the damage mounts. We can’t wait
to replace the SOBs in Congress who don’t seem to give a damn but hopefully we
can force them to uphold the laws of the land under the threat of replacement.
Thus, I have taken a
different approach in a comprehensive solution which will solve most of the
problems, including getting many illegal aliens out of the country and
preventing new ones from entering, which should be the two primary goals in any
real immigration reform. Since it does
not involve rounding up and deporting 12+ million illegal aliens, it should be
able to get enough support from both parties, with enough pressure on
individual members.
Remember, the number one
goal for most elected politicians is re-election. Pressure from fed-up constituents will cause them to protect
their sorry asses from potential replacement as they finally carry out their
Constitutional responsibilities and protect the sovereignty of the United
States and enforce the laws of the land.
To accomplish the primary
goals, which rectifys much of the collateral damage, the following are ten
specific suggestions to solve the problem.
However, the most important thing is that we as a nation and people must
get serious to fix the problem.
That starts with recognizing
the problem and understanding the cost-benefit tradeoffs which results in an
acceptable level of collateral damage.
To do that, you must first ask yourself:
Exactly how many Americans are YOU willing
to allow to be ripped off, infected, molested, raped, killed, and murdered in
toleration of illegal immigration?
Only
when you have an answer to that question can any solution begin.
My ten
suggestions are as follows:
1. Build the border fence! All of it. NOW!
Proper
border security is absolutely necessary to keep people out who do not belong
here. However bad the problem is now,
it is only worse with more illegal aliens.
As this paper has detailed, we are being overrun by foreign nationals
and when we catch and actually deport the really bad ones about 60% of them
simply come right back in. Additionally,
the fence is mandatory to significantly decrease the amount of drugs that are
pouring across the southern border.
2. Implement the REAL ID act now. If anything, the time table needs to be
accelerated.
We
need to know who is in the country illegally and what their intentions
are. As much as I do not like having a
national ID card, even a de facto one like a counterfeit proof Social Security
Card, we are no longer living in an era where vast oceans protect us from the
bad guys that mean to do us harm.
As it is now, States are backing
out because of the implementation costs and a
September 2006 NewsMax article, Congress
Delays Border ID Program,
notes:
“A plan to tighten U.S. borders by requiring passports
or tamper-resistant identification cards from everyone entering the country by
land from Mexico and Canada has been delayed.
House
and Senate lawmakers agreed to push back the program by 17 months, saying they
want to make sure new ID cards being developed by the Bush administration will
better secure borders against terrorists without slowing legitimate travelers
from Canada and Mexico. The new ID's
will be required for Americans and all others entering the U.S.”
9/11
happened over five years ago. Have we
forgotten the horrors of of that day?
The
MSM still won’t show the pictures of the Americans jumping to their deaths from
those burning buildings. They do not
want to “offend” us.
As
noted in Identity and Immigration Status of 9/11 Terrorists "the 19 terrorists on Sept. 11 were holding 63
state driver's licenses for identification." See Illegal
Immigrants in a State of Disarray on how sanctuary policies in
Wisconsin’s Department of Motor Vehicles facilitates this practice.
How
many more terrorist will gain access during those 17 months? How many more Americans will be molested,
raped, killed, and murdered by illegal aliens?
Will anybody be held accountable for those allowing those crimes to
happen?
As
it is now, when, not if, the next big incident happens, Congress will still be pointing fingers,
holding hearings, and asking “How did this happen?’ Of course, it will not be their fault…. it never is.
3. Dramatically increase the fines, penalties,
enforcement, and prosecution for hiring illegal aliens.
If
there are no jobs available it will seriously reduce the incentive to come
here, make staying here less desirable, and provide a strong incentive for
many illegal aliens to return to their own country own by their own accord. Having a REAL ID will actually take much of
the burden off employers because they will know that they are hiring a legal
worker.
If
the INS isn’t having to spend so much time having to track down illegal alien
criminals that are “only” molesting, raping, killing, and murdering Americans, they
will have more resources to go after the “really bad” illegal aliens that would
like to nuke a city or two.
4. Dramatically increase the fines and penalties for
making and having forged documents.
Making, selling, providing, or possession of forged documents is grounds
for immediate deportation.
5.
Enforce existing law.
In case you don’t know what the laws regarding illegal aliens are, see US Code, TITLE 8 (ALIENS AND NATIONALITY), CHAPTER 12 (IMMIGRATION and NATIONALITY), SUBCHAPTER II (IMMIGRATION), Part VIII (GENERAL PENALTY PROVISIONS) which contains various provisions, including:
§ 1321 Prevention
of unauthorized landing of aliens
§ 1322 Bringing
in aliens subject to denial of admission on a health-related ground; persons
liable; clearance papers; exceptions; “person” defined
§ 1323 Unlawful
bringing of aliens into United States
§ 1324 Bringing
in and harboring certain aliens
§ 1324a Unlawful
employment of aliens
§ 1324b Unfair
immigration-related employment practices
§ 1324c Penalties
for document fraud
§ 1324d. Civil
penalties for failure to depart.
§ 1325 Improper
entry by alien
§ 1327 Aiding
or assisting certain aliens to enter
§ 1328 Importation
of alien for immoral purpose
These would
actually be fairly effective if enforced.
Note § 1327.
Ever see anybody get prosecuted?
6. Make violation of our immigration laws a conditional
felony.
If
nothing else, this shows we are serious and we are a sovereign nation.
7. Adopt and enforce English only provisions of being
part of the United States.
This
includes the current naturalization process where there would be no language
waivers, regardless of age. If you
really wanted to be part of another country, wouldn’t you learn the native
language of that country? If you don’t
then what business do you have voting?
8. Immediately reduce the number of legal immigrants to
250,000 per year for the next ten years.
If the
INS has a whole lot less people to process, maybe they can start finding and
deporting the many hundreds of thousand of criminals with existing deportation
orders against them.
9. Create a Conditional Citizenship Program (CCP) in the
Immigration and Naturalization Service to provide a way for existing and
otherwise law abiding, illegal aliens to stay and work in the United States and
earn citizenship.
The CCP
would be designed to specifically address and solve the problem of existing illegal aliens who have been in the country for five or
more years. It is not be a guest
worker program. That is a whole
separate and independent issue. The CCP
would have an electronic registry allowing employers to have immediate
verification of the working eligibility of illegal aliens. The CCP would have its own judiciary to swiftly handle any disputes, appeals,
and deportations, not the cumbersome and illegal alien friendly bureaucracy of
the Executive Office of Immigration Review
(EOIR). NOTE: see Deport Aliens for information on the
failure of the EOIR to enforce immigration policies
10. Implement the other suggestions in the WHAT TO DO
section.
While
the ACLU and various other unlimited and illegal immigration individuals and
support groups will have a fit and squeal like a stuck pig, the collateral
costs are simply too high to allow things to stay the way they are.
The conditions of the
Conditional Citizenship Program would be as follows. Violation of any of the conditions means denial of CCP
participation and immediate deportation.
The CCP is only for illegal
aliens that have been residing in the US for five or more years. All other illegal aliens are required to
leave.
A. Applicants to become a naturalized citizen
must register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service and comply with
specific rules and regulations to become a citizen. Nothing less should be expected of illegal aliens.
All eligible illegal
aliens and their children must register with the Conditional Citizenship
Program (CCP) within 3 months of activation of the CCP. Initial registration will be nothing more
than a serialized, simple, post card application. The applicant keeps the other half with the serial number. Failure to register means automatic
deportation. At 3 months plus 1 day the
program is closed. If an illegal alien
misses it, too bad. They can enter the
special “illegal alien lottery” or apply to become a naturalized citizen like
everybody else who wants to come to the USA .
Similar to and part of
the US Immigration Services’ Naturalization
Program, complete registration will require a photograph, fingerprints and
issuance of a Social Security Number.
Any illegal alien that is not registered with the CCP is in the country
illegally and is subject to immediate deportation. Registration with CCP binds the registrant to the terms and
conditions of the program.
B. To be eligible, the illegal alien must prove
five years of residency in the United States as of the date the CCP is
activated. Children under 18 on that
date are covered by their parent(s).
Illegal aliens that are 18 or over on that date must independently prove
residency and register with the CCP.
The CCP will define what constitutes proof of residency but the burden
of proof is on the illegal alien. For
illegal aliens who have resided in the country for less than five years, their
time in country will count towards more lottery chances and the time required
by a legal immigrant applicant.
C. Similar to the requirements of Section
212(a)(1)(A)(i) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act, all illegal aliens and their children must have a
health screening as part of the citizenship process.
The alien’s CCP work
status is defined as “ineligible” until the health screening is complete. A first time exemption is granted for an
employer to hire an alien with an ineligible status as long as the screening is
done within 30 days of hire at the employer’s expense. Should the alien not get or fail a
screening, the work status remains ineligible and work is not allowed until a
successful health screening is completed.
Any employer hiring or retaining a CCP registered worker with an ineligible
work status will be subject to a fine of $500 per month, prorated, of
ineligible employment. Should the alien
have a communicable disease that is being treated, the work status is changed
to “provisional” until the alien receives a clean bill of health. Some industries, such as food service, are
not allowed to hire or have workers with provisional work limitations. All school age children are required to have
a successful health screening before being allowed to attend any public school.
D. The illegal alien must meet the “good moral
character” requirements for becoming naturalized citizens. See A Guide to
Naturalization. Any felony
conviction or three or more misdemeanors is grounds for denial.
E. The illegal alien must not be on public
welfare when applying with the CCP with the exception of treatments for any
contagious disease, child preventative medical treatments, and school feeding
programs.
F. The illegal immigrant must not be convicted
of driving a car without a license or insurance or have illegally voted anytime
after the day the CCP is activated.
Violation of these provisions will result in immediate deportation.
G. An illegal alien is only eligible for
citizenship after 10 years of law abiding residency in the United States. The five or more years of residency time
before registering with the CCP is not counted.
This is twice as long
as required for a legal immigrant and the additional 5 years is the penalty for
entering the United States illegally.
Yes it is a form of amnesty but it is part of a realistic
solution and the price is a minimum of 5 years of otherwise law abiding
residency.
H. Illegal aliens who take an Oath of
Allegiance and honorably serve in the military for two or three years are
eligible for citizenship 5 years after joining the service, if they were are
honorably discharged. For a 4 year
commitment, eligibility is granted on the day of honorable discharge. For a longer commitment, the alien is
eligible for citizenship on their 4 year anniversary of joining. If an illegal alien in the service is
discharged with less than an honorable discharge, they go back to square one
but the time in service counts towards the 10 year residency requirement. Should the illegal alien die while serving
in the military of the United States the alien is made a citizen on the day of
death. The “law abiding” provision is
to be similar to what is currently required for legal immigrants.
As noted in Military Shortcut to U.S. Citizenship:
“Mexican-born Gabriela Begaye, 30, who joined the Army at the age of 25 and became
a citizen last week in Fort Bliss, Texas, says she feels proud to wear a
military uniform. I would die for this
country. I would do it," she
said.”
This attitude was once
expressed by President John F. Kennedy, who said to the
nation:
“In the long history
of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending
freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would
exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we
bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly light
the world.
And so, my fellow
Americans, ask not what your country can
do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of
the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do
for the freedom of man.”
(emphasis added)
Gabriela Begaye is the
kind of person, immigrant and citizen, who makes this country the greatest
nation on earth.
I. All illegal alien children under age 12 on
the date the CCP is activated must graduate from 12th grade or
complete a high school equivalency by age 21 to become a citizen.
Those that otherwise
meet all the other conditions but do not comply with the education requirement
will be granted permanent visas and green cards but not citizenship. Children of such people can become citizens
as noted above but all non-citizens are not allowed to bring in relatives. Go back to the EDUCATION section for “why.”
J. All illegal aliens must complete and pass
the INS naturalization
citizenship test and take the Oath of
Allegiance to become citizens.
This includes all children who were not born in the United States.
US citizenship is a
prized privilege that must be earned.
The test may be taken at any time prior to the residency requirement
being fulfilled but must be completed within 1 year of eligibility. There will be no exemptions.
It is worth noting that
the test is not actually that difficult. Like many things in modern education, you can’t have anybody
flunking so the INS gives out the questions and answer, and has a low passing
grade. To see how “hard” it is go to Questions
and Answers for New Pilot Naturalization Exam.
When these conditions
are met, the illegal alien receives a full pardon from the conditional felony
and becomes a naturalized citizen, entitled to all the benefits and privileges
of being an American.
The five year cutoff is
going to be unlucky on someone who misses it by one day. Unfortunately the other choices are between
“deport them all” and an unknown Solomon type solution. However, if the President and Congress had
done their jobs over the last 20 years we wouldn’t be in this mess today so “5
years” is a compromise in a no-win situation.
For illegal aliens that
miss the five year cutoff, there will be an additional 100,000 “Illegal
immigrant lottery slots” set aside for four years. This is over and above the reduction of legal immigrants
to the 250,000 per year level. All
illegal aliens who were residing in the country for four years may participate
in a lottery for those 100,000 slots.
In the second year, all illegal aliens who were residing in the country
for four and three years may participate in a lottery for those slots. And so on until the fourth year when all
illegal aliens who were residing in the USA for less than five years may
participate in a lottery for those slots.
Thus an illegal alien who was in the country for four years gets four
chances. The lottery winner gets to
participate in the CCP with the exact same requirements as all other
participants.
As it is today, we
conduct a diversity
immigration lottery for certain countries and the NBA conducts a lottery
providing the worst teams the most chances.
If it is good enough for a diversity lottery and the NBA it should be
good enough for illegal aliens who are not supposed to be here to begin
with. If they don’t like it – go home.
The CCP does not provide
blanket amnesty for all illegal aliens but while giving some a form of amnesty
it requires a much larger percentage to go home or be deported. In the American way, it provides compassion
and opportunity for law abiding, illegal aliens, as well as for their children,
who have been working in the country to earn citizenship. It punishes lawbreakers, does not move
illegal aliens to the front of the line and, most importantly, puts similar
requirements on illegal aliens as we have for legal immigrants.
While acknowledging that any
program that allows illegal aliens to remain in the US is a form of amnesty, the
CCP is a common sense compromise and realistic solution to an existing
problem that does not include unwarranted blanket amnesty for all illegal
aliens or “buying citizenship.”
However, it also includes compassion for otherwise law abiding time
spent in the United States and recognizes the commitment of illegal aliens in
the armed forces.
The CCP stems the flow of
illegal aliens, requires a great many to go home, penalizes illegal immigrants
for breaking the law, and denies citizenship to illegal aliens who really do
not want to be Americans and play by our rules. In the American way, it provides justice, forgiveness, earned
opportunity, rewards, and punishment.
The CCP also spreads out the
burden of naturalization of a few million illegal aliens on the INS over a
number of years which will mitigate the number of additional INS agents
required to process the applicants in the CCP.
In fact, coupled with a dramatic reduction of legal immigration, and a
five year delay to allow the INS to clear the backlog, it should require no
more INS personnel.
Regardless, this is the cost
of fixing the “victimless” crime. While
unpalatable to some as it does not round up and deport 12+ million illegal
aliens, it is a realistic compromise that meets the two primary goals. It is also a whole lot better than allowing
the horrendous collateral damage to continue year after year while the problem
keeps growing bigger as the number of illegal aliens continues to climb.
The alternative is to allow
things to continue the way they currently are.
Exactly how many Americans are YOU
willing to allow to be ripped off, infected, molested, raped, killed, and
murdered to tolerate illegal immigration?
www.congressandimmigration.com