Why don't we allow "day worker" immigration, but just charge everyone $20 for the day pass?

Question

Look, the way I see it, the only advantage to working in the US is that you can make more here, than you can in Mexico. So if we allow workers to come across - then it eliminates all the illegal crossing, extortion, and costs for extra border guards everywhere.

Now, you charge everyone coming over $20 a day. I mean, how much can you make in most of the jobs you come accross to do? Probably $20 a day more than you could make doing something in Mexico... so most people say "Ahhh forget it... by the time I pay the $20, I come out about even... then there's the commute, the traffic, etc.... I'll just work here."

The $20 a day (times how many million illegals that choose to come over?) funds the rest of the immigration department.

The only restriction: "Pass ends at Midnight each day. Each day your here, you need a new pass". If your caught even once without a valid day pass, you can NEVER return again... like getting 86'd from Disney World.

Answer 1

I have the same question for anything that involves a 'pass'. How do you enforce their leaving? Right now up to half of the people here came legally and overstayed visas. Why would these passes miraculously be enforced?

Answer 2

Yeah, that's gonna happen. When mexican nationals are engaging our police in gun battles, openly scoffing at both our citizens and our laws, what makes you think they're going to honor a $20 pass? There's people out there paying THOUSANDS to enter the country illegally, what's 20 bucks going to do? REAL border enforcement unfortunately means turning around 99.5% of the people trying to hike, swim, or roll into america illegally. That's not going to happen, either, so the real answer is to 'sour the milk'. Make it flat-out illegal to hire an 'illegal alien'(mexican, guatemalan, el salvadoran, ethiopian, insert name of foreign citizen HERE) who doesn't have bona-fide, verified work papers. Since those are getting forged too, you figure the odds of the legitimacy and effectiveness of your 'day pass'...if all ya gotta do is bolt, and disappear into a city like Los Angeles(which is one of those 'amnesty' towns, meaning they're actively aiding and abetting an unlawful act, under the care and oversight of the 'mexican mayor of Los Angeles'), and your fears are behind you in terms of being sent home, I say "DAY PASS!?!?!!? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' DAY PASS! VAMONOS!!!" lolol.

Beef up the border patrol. Have Mexico start contributing financially to the process of sending their people home. Start fining holy hell out of employers that knowingly hire illegals. Give the INS enough money to have 100 buses, and 10 charter planes standing by, engines running. And, get that border fence built.
If we're going to have a Border Patrol, then they need the support necessary to do their job effectively, otherwise the whole thing is just a corrupt, dysfunctional, futile exercise.

Bush and company seem to be good at those, which is why the individual states are taking matters in to their own hands and 'doing the jobs that the federal government won't do', building up the border, assisting the Border Patrol, etc...Sad days, but here we are.

It really sucks for the people of Mexico, to basically be forgotten by their old country, and rejected by their new one, but in the interest of protecting 'that which we call America', this whole mess needs to be severely throttled back. The only way to do that is to find a way to prevent people from walking right in, at will.
Or, taking the do-nothing approach, face a less appealing reality of a foreign country(Mexico) doing its' level best to move into the United States en masse, and I don't know what outcome there will be from that, but somehow I just don't think it'll be real good, for mexicans, or americans...I'd like to be more optimistic about it, but the numbers you see about crime and imprisonment rates speak otherwise. America needs reform on immigration just as much as Mexico does, if not moreso. I firmly believe that most US americans, to differentiate from Mexican-americans, will overwhelmingly vote 'no' on Bush and company's apparently intended shotgun marriage to Mexico. Commerce is one thing,
but this is getting stupid. I just don't think your day pass idea is worth much, sorry.

Answer 3

If rules were followed-it wouldn't be bad. Yes we all spend money to get to work. And even companies could pay cost for that matter. But I am afraid we would still have law breakers. And that is the biggest problem.

Please think of how to solve that problem and maybe we could use that idea. Get back to us soon.

Answer 4

they dont respect the laws -rules , we have now so i doubt at the end of the day they would go home

Answer 5

Because they will never go back... $20.00 is a lot less than a "coyote" usual fee...