How should the "illegal" Imigrant situation get resolved?

Question

Being Mexican/P. Rican what is even considered alien?

Im a US citizen, born raised. I am Mexican/P. Rican and want to know who is considered illegal to our country?

Answer 1

Lucky-is right. That guy is one smart man-wonder where he finds all his information.

Answer 2

Alien is a someone who is not an American citizen. You might be a legally resident alien or an illegal alien. If you are Puerto Rican, you'd be a non-voting American (your own fault, you guys didn't want to be a state.) So which are you, Mexican (an alien in this country) or Puerto Rican? It makes a big difference.

Solution:

1. Secure the borders and put the employer data base in place and dismantle the benefit magnets that draw illegals across.

2. While that is going on, debate whether and if so what shape of an amnesty/guest worker program might be appropriate, but make sure it provides for all local impacts to schools and services. Any such program would not go into place until #1 is demonstrably complete.

My own view once 1. was in place would be to screen illegals during a period of temporary residency. You would be expected to get "qualified permenant residency" after the end of this (5 year?) residency period so long as you had not been convicted of a misdemeaner or worse while here and had no ties to gangs. Any criminals and gang members would be deported. At the end of the temporary residency period, ONLY the illegals here and pre-registered during the screening period would get permenant residency without the ability to bring in other family except through existing quotas (otherwise you quadrupal the numbers.)

Thereafter, look at school and services impacts. Only permit a guest worker program where the employer provided education and health care for the guest worker and any family. Even impact fees would not be enough if the employer / guest worker were in a place where schools were already not meeting 'one child left behind standards'. In that case, the employer would literally have to arrange for the education to be provided.

An alternative would be to make these guest workers really temporary workers as we have current categories of visas that are for 6 month of the year workers. They would not be allowed to bring family in that case, and since benefits for illegals would be dismantled, there would be no drain on education if they brought children illegally. They simply wouldn't get education.

This may sound strict, but note that my plan does provide an amnesty for those who have been illegally draining our services for all of these years. When our own children and sick can't get good education and health care, it is irresponsible to put the children of foreigners before our own, in my opinion.

Answer 3

Alien is just a generic term meaning you're not of this country. So you can have resident aliens and illegal aliens. Since the politically correct people started attaching some sort of negative connotation to "alien", it became used less. But with the focus on the "illegals" problem, peole have started using it again because you're not really an immigrant if you violated the law and snuck into this country.

How to fix the illegal alien problem: 1. Close the border down, however we have to, no more illegals. 2. Revamp the immigration process so people can get through the process easier and quicker. 3. Everyone who is here illegally has to go back to square one and wait in line like the millions and millions of immigrants have done so since the founding of this country.

Answer 4

When the EU was being set up, all the rich countries (France, Germany, Holland) were worried that the EU's free movement of labor would create mass immigration from the poorer countries (Spain, Portugal, Greece). So, the rich EU countries invested in the infrastructure of these countries (roads, telecomm, sewage lines, etc.). This greatly increased the quality of life in these countries and increased foreign investment, which created better jobs and higher wages. Which meant that there was no longer such a demand for poorer people from the poor countries to migrate. Also, it created legitimate trading partners for the rich countries and allowed the whole EU to develope economically through specialization and exploiting economies of scale. The investment from the rich EU countries more than paid itself off.

Why couldn't the US do this with Mexico? Because we are xenophobic and do not understand basic economics. President Bush has the right idea with the guest worker program because it is impossible to fight illegal immigration by building fences or militarizing the border. Poor immigrants will find a way here as long as there is work for them, which there is, and any money we spend to try to stop them is just a waste. Don't believe me? Research the Border Patrol's Project Gatekeeper, we spent lots of tax dollars and killed lots of immigrants in the Arizona desert, but it hasn't decreased overall immigration.

Answer 5

Quite excellent that we have so many illegals here online at this blog.
We'll resolve it by protecting the border and sending all illegals home. An alien is someone who has not yet been granted immigration legally. Who is not a citizen, in this case of the USA.

Answer 6

1. Build a wall and enforce it with technology and guards.

2. Deport all illegals currently here.

3. Impose HUGE fines against any employer that hires illegals.

4. Make coming here a felony.

5. Keep better records because most of them keep doing this over and over again.

Answer 7

Secure the border.
Screen the illegals.
Deport the undesirables.
Give the rest amnesty.

Answer 8

This question is going to get some strange answers

Answer 9

Like this.

Answer 10

tighten up the borders, make it fair for everyone.