Bloggers for Immigration Reform

The government has failed us again. Politicians were unable to come to an rational, pragmatic solution for Immigration Reform so nothing will be done. Politicians are too handcuffed by their own political ambitions and rhetoric to cooperate on anything. To me the status quo is unacceptable and I believe the average citizen and blogger agree.

As a result, I am starting a grass roots movement to solve this problem in the blogosphere. I believe there is common ground that we can all agree to that will make us safer and solve the problem of illegal immigration. This will require some compromise and no one will be able to get everything they want, but I am confident that we can come up with something that is better than the current legislation and better than doing nothing at all.

There are a few principles we can all agree to that can get us started.

1. First and foremost, we need to control who we let in the country. If we can’t protect our borders, any other reform is pointless.

2. We need to address the status of the 12 million illegal people.

3. We need to provide a way for migrant workers to be able to legally enter and work in this country such as a work visa to keep our economy strong. We need to eliminate the incentives to sneak into the country.

And that’s it. Doesn’t sound too hard.

This is what I would personally propose to meet this criteria and remember this is a rough first draft that I am more than willing to compromise on.

1. Build a fence on both borders including surveillance. I care most about the danger from radical Islamic terrorists and they can enter from both the north and the south. Securing the southern border is not good enough. No more visas will be issued for anyone traveling to the United States from Islamic states for vacation or for education. The danger of letting in a few dangerous people is too high. We should probably fingerprint everyone who is issued a visa to get into the country. We need to know everyone who is here. With Mohammad soon to become the most popular boy’s name in Britain, we must even track visitors from allied countries. No other reform measures can occur until this step has finished.

2. On this issue I am willing to compromise quite a bit. Some people want instant citizenship and some want mass deportation. I believe the correct path would be to provide conditional residency without a path to citizenship. This would be one of the penalties for breaking the law to enter the country. There of course would be a substantial fine to be paid upon application for residency. I believe this should satisfy the punitive requirement that most people desire short of deporting everyone which I believe is unrealistic. If no one can become a citizen then we don’t have to worry about which party they are going to vote for. The residency is conditional upon respecting our laws. No one convicted of a crime will be allowed to become a resident and will be deported. Any resident who commits a crime will have their residency revoked and will be deported. There are no more “anchor babies”. Children cannot become citizens unless their parents become citizens which is not possible in my plan.

3. We need to provide work visas based on what is needed to keep our economy running smoothly. Employers would need to apply for a certain number of visas and have workers already screened and ready to work. Secure id’s will be provided to all workers. There will be a time limit set to a certain number of years before they must return home. I’m thinking 3-5 years. Employers will be severely punished for hiring illegal workers. Since these people will obey the laws and enter the country legally, they may apply for permanent residency and citizenship just as any other legal alien can right now. If they overstay their visas, they will be deported and never issued another work visa.

So is this something we can agree to? If not, I’m sure we can work it out and show Congress the power of the people. Shortly I will start up another site dedicated to this movement. Please stay tuned.

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I have to disagree in part.
I’ve lived elsewhere before landing in Alabama. Some of those were in areas that had historically had high levels of immigration from many parts of the world. LEGAL immigration. Some of those people had waited YEARS to gain entry. Years! To say that those who had so little regard for our laws as to come in like burglars should be rewarded while those who obeyed the law should be ignored is to send exactly the wrong message. So I have exactly zero sympathy for the illegals.
Here are my recommendations:
1) build the wall, the whole wall, and do it now.
2) make legitimate efforts at interior enforcement. Anybody who can’t locate some illegals isn’t trying.
3) those who knowingly or recklessly employ illegals go to jail and face seizure of personal assets.
4) public officials who refuse to enforce the law go to jail. So much for sanctuary cities. And that goes as high up the food chain as necessary
5) English only. This must not become a polyglot Balkanized mess. No more hyphenated Americans
6) tell foreign governments to butt out. Close the Mexican consulates in places like Little Rock.
7) no more wire transfers to Mexico, etc. Or credit cards for illegals.
apprehended illegals are across the border within 24 hours of apprehension. Nation of origin pays for it too.
9) fix the erroneous ”anchor baby” rulings.
10) state it openly – illegals have human rights, but they have no civil rights. None. Nit. Zilch. Zero. Not at all. They are not entitled to lawyers. Or counsel of any kind. They get caught, they’re illegal, they’re out of here.
11) as for illegals caught a second time: those who won’t learn once won’t learn twice. I believe the term is ”extreme prejudice”.

There is a thought that illegals should be bribed to leave. That’s distasteful, but perhaps less so than this shamnesty ”path to citizenship”. Illegals should NEVER NEVER be granted citizenship. They are invaders, not guests, and they are not welcome.
Re ”guest workers”. We already have some programs for that. They are sufficient. But on that subject, you are welcome to review the European experience. It has not been good. Look at the Turks in Germany or the Algerians in France. Unassimilated, unassimilable, hostile, angry, and a constant source of crime and trouble. Why would any intelligent person want such a thing?
I don’t know that we can deport 12 million. But we don’t catch all burglars or drunk drivers either, but we sure make an attempt to do so. Enforcement hasn’t really been tried for a long time, certainly this president has done his utmost to prevent it. Let’s give it an honest try.

1. on June 17th, 2007 at 5:09 am