Achieving Immigration Reform

As discussed in chapter 3 of Part1, illegal immigration has had a devastating effect on the social structure of our country and has contributed greatly to our present economic woes. Obviously, it is the height of folly to continue policies that encourage further immigration of low IQ uneducated people of Mexican descent who take the jobs of American citizens; disrupt our educational system; organize gangs in our major cities; and contribute disproportionally to the increasing rate of criminality in inner our cities. We, as a society, are paying too high a price for the menial jobs they perform in the United States. Fortunately, of all the problems facing America today, illegal immigration is, perhaps, the easiest to solve. Whether or not we have the will to do so, of course, is an entirely different story. All that must be done, to stop illegal immigration in its tracks is to introduce laws that prevent illegal's without green cards from working in the United States. Most, if not all, of these laws are already on the books but, for the political reasons discussed above are not being enforced. At this point in time to seems clear that we will have pass additional laws and regulations which will make it difficult or impossible for employers like Tyson and Foster Farms to hire illegal's. Here are three simple steps we can take to stop illegal immigration in its tracks. First, we must have a national identification card (NIC) which clearly states that a person is a citizen of the United States and includes a picture of the card holder and their social security. Without a NIC a person could not work and could not vote. Employers who hire illegal's without an NIC should face large fines, in proportion to the size of their business enterprises, and repeat offenders should be sent to prison. Anyone carrying a counterfeit NIC should be charged with a felony and counterfeiter's of such cards would be severely punished. Second, persons without a NIC would be ineligible for any form of welfare including food stamps, housing aids, non emergency medical care and federal educational grants. Third, and finally, the law which grants citizenship to babies born to illegal mothers while in the United States must be repealed. This will require an amendment to the constitution, but such an amendment could be easily passed if there was a national will to do so. There is absolutely no reason in today's America to give citizenship to the so called anchor babies. It is long past time to repeal the law that makes babies of illegal aliens legal, just because they were born in the United States. These babies are just as illegal as their mothers and should be sent back, along with mothers, to the nations from which they came. If these three simple steps were taken our illegal immigration problems would be solved once and for all without hiring an additional border agent or building a single foot of new fence. Obviously, if illegal's are not allowed to work and are prevented from going on welfare they will not come. More importantly, many, if not most, of those now here will pack up and go home! We will still need border agents to curtail drug traffickers and potential theorists from crossing our boarders but these unsavory characters will be much easier to detect if they are not allowed to mix in with the multitudes of illegal's who are now streaming across our southern border. There will be three predictable objections to the implementation of these relatively simple steps which, if implemented, would solve the illegal immigration problem once and for all! Liberals will scream bloody murder while claiming that it would be discriminatory, and a violation of the equal rights amendment, to require blacks, especially those who are poor, illiterate and elderly, to obtain and show an NIC before they vote. Have no doubt about it, we are talking about the facilitation of voting fraud by the liberals here, nothing more nothing less. In any case, this is a specious argument at best in twenty-first century America and brings to mind a encounter I witnessed recently at our local Sears store in Concord California. I was in the checkout line behind an elderly black man who was in the process of purchasing a small item which cost around $15.00. This gentleman wanted to pay with his credit card and the clerk said that he would have to see an identification card before he could complete the transaction. Without the slightest hesitation the customer pulled out his wallet and showed the clerk his driver's license which had his picture on it. This took me somewhat by surprise because it appeared that this elderly person would have been too old to drive. Nonetheless, he had a drivers license with his picture on it. Now I ask you, if a person has to show a pictured identification card to make a $15.00 purchase at Sears, is it unreasonable to ask him, or her, to do the same before they are allowed to vote? No, the lame arguments made by the liberals against a NIC is simply another of their endless attempts to encourage illegal immigration and enable voting fraud by minority voters. The second argument will be made against the elimination of all forms of welfare, with the exception of emergency medical care, to illegal immigrants. Liberals and like minded companionate conservatives will claim that it will be inhumane to curtail, in any significant way, the billions of dollars we spend each year to support the Latino underclass. Well, maybe so, but this is the price we will have to pay if we are to have any hope of taking our country back. When all is said and done, we have no moral obligation whatsoever to spend the taxpayers hard earned money to support people who were born in Latin America and broke our laws while coming here. With respect to the fourteenth amendment there is absolutely no reason not to repeal it, none at all! There simply is no logical reason that the babies of illegal mothers should automatically become citizens of the United States just because he or she was born here. A person would have to be blind and deaf and dumb all over to think otherwise. So, what is to be done with the tens of millions of illegal's that are already residing in the United States? What about the children of the Illegal's? If we deport their parents, what will happen to these innocent young people, many of whom are, under our antiquated laws, legal citizens? As stated above, if we prevent the illegal's from working in America and eliminate the welfare we provide them, many, if not most, of those illegally here will go home on their own volition. Thus, the problem of what to do with the illegal's that are already here will not be as great as it now seems. Having said that, there will still be millions of illegal's who remain and we as a society will have to deal with them. Possibly we can give illegal's who were brought here as children and adults who have worked and lived here for a number of years (five to 10 seems reasonable) a type of green card that lets them stay in our country indefinitely as long as they abide by our laws, pay taxes and stay out of trouble. A path to citizenship also would be appropriate for many of these people. However, under no circumstances should any of these amnesty-light measures be considered until the proposed laws that would curtail future illegal immigration are implemented. We must not fall into the same trap Ronald Reagan did when he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986. This foolish piece of legislation granted citizenship to millions of illegal's supposedly in exchange for strict boarder control measures that would have prevented future illegal's from entering the country. As we know, the illegal's were made citizens but the borders remained as porous as ever. The old adage fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me comes to mind!