The Simple Solution to Illegal Immigration

John Hawkins from the Right Wing News blog asks a bunch of questions that nobody seems to want to address concerning illegal immigration in America. Here are his questions.

Consider these questions….

– If a guest worker/amnesty program is really worth doing, why does it have to be coupled with border enforcement, which almost everyone at least claims to support, in order to get passed? If it really represents what the majority of Americans want, as the pro-illegal crowd likes to claim, why can’t an “earned legalization”/guest worker bill stand on its own merits?

– According to some estimates, the Senate bill will increase the number of legal immigrants coming into the United States by 400-1000 percent per year. Why do we need to so dramatically increase the number of legal citizens coming into the United States?

– If we actually add a staggering and completely unprecedented 100 million plus legal immigrants to the United States over the next twenty years, which is something the Senate bill currently appears to do, what makes us think that we’ll be able to assimilate them all? What makes us think that we’ll be able to change them instead of their changing us?

– How can it be said that the illegals currently in the United States are truly going to the, “back of the line,” if they’re being allowed to stay here while they wait to be made citizens?

– If illegal aliens are rewarded for breaking our laws, aren’t we just encouraging even more people to break the law in hopes of getting in on the next amnesty?

– If we don’t have the will to punish the illegals who are already here, why should anyone believe that we’re going to have the will to punish illegals in the future, particularly since we’ve already had a “one-time” amnesty back in 1986? Moreover, wouldn’t the politicians be even less willing to deport illegals in the future if we allow the 12 million illegals that are already here (along with their extended families) to become citizens?

– The Senate plan hands out amnesty to illegals based on how long they’ve been in the US. But, we’re talking about people who snuck into the country, they use fake documentation, and we don’t even have a reliable way to know their real names. So, how in the world can we really verify how long these illegal aliens have been in the US?

– Almost everyone acknowledges that the majority of illegal immigrants are coming here to get jobs. So, if we seriously crack down on employers of illegals (which is something the President claims he wants to do), why wouldn’t the majority of illegals self-deport after the jobs dry up?

– Even if we do a guest worker program, wouldn’t it make much more sense to have it made up of people who respect our laws and didn’t come to this country illegally? Wouldn’t that reward foreigners who have respected our laws and take them seriously?

– George Bush has been a do-nothing President on border security for his entire tenure, even though after 9/11, he knew leaving the border unguarded entailed huge security risks. So, why should anyone take him at his word now when he says he will secure the border and increase enforcement?

And I have the simple solution! It would involve no National Guard troops, no crack down on businesses who hire illegals, no amnesty, it, in my opinion, is the answer to the entire debacle and we just might be ready for this solution.

Ready? A national ID card or some kind of permanent mark or something of that sort that all of us must have in order to work, buy and sell.

If you think about it, it really would solve all the problems. Scary!

Tom Remington