Four-point immigration reform plan
It's hard to believe the organizers of Monday's ''Day Without an Immigrant,'' a nationwide boycott of work and shopping, think that having illegal immigrants withhold their services for a day will actually help them win the public relations battle. They'd be far better off lobbying quietly and telling their followers to lie in the weeds while Congress slugs it out.
The House has passed an absurdly harsh immigration reform bill that calls for building a 700-mile-long wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and treating illegal entry into this country as a felony. In the Senate, several bills are being debated that would essentially grant amnesty to about half of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, and encourage more to cross the border.
It's hard to imagine the House and Senate will be able to reconcile their differences on how to address the immigration problem. But if a compromise is in the cards, here's what I would like to see:
National identification cards that would allow law enforcement officials, employers and others to readily determine whether people are in this country legally.
Harsh penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
Authorization for local, county and state law enforcement officials to enforce immigration laws.
Changes to immigration law that would deny automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants.
These steps would go a long way toward solving the problem. But I'm not holding my breath for it to happen - or for any substantive immigration reform.
The House has passed an absurdly harsh immigration reform bill that calls for building a 700-mile-long wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and treating illegal entry into this country as a felony. In the Senate, several bills are being debated that would essentially grant amnesty to about half of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, and encourage more to cross the border.
It's hard to imagine the House and Senate will be able to reconcile their differences on how to address the immigration problem. But if a compromise is in the cards, here's what I would like to see:
National identification cards that would allow law enforcement officials, employers and others to readily determine whether people are in this country legally.
Harsh penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
Authorization for local, county and state law enforcement officials to enforce immigration laws.
Changes to immigration law that would deny automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants.
These steps would go a long way toward solving the problem. But I'm not holding my breath for it to happen - or for any substantive immigration reform.
posted by Randy Bergmann at 10:31 PM
3 Comments:
I work where we employ many immigrant wokers. My boss says that if they don't show for work on May 1st, they would be best suited to look for work elsewhere.
I am furious about ILLEGALS thinking that they have the right to demand anything at all. I have to live on $818.00 a month S.S. and do not get FREE anything. They do not belong here unless they are LEGAL. We couldn't go anywhere else in the world and get the freebies that these ILLEGALS do. What is wrong with our leaders? They should read Pres. Teddy Roosevelts statement about immigrants in 1907.
The building of a wall in support of the law is not a harsh measure by any rational measure. Neither is there anything harsh about accurately describing the invasion of our country as a felony.
If illegal aliens were taking jobs as news editors, you would be singing a different tune.
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