Do we need to Get Tougher with Illegal Immigrants?

Question

Public Policy Questions Give Pros And Cons on whta you think

Answer 1

need to get tougher with illegal employers.
it's the jobs that bring the people.
ultimately it's the economic imbalance across the border.
justice for all will fix it.

Answer 2

If we were to truly enforce the laws that are on the books now, we wouldn't need to get "tougher."

U.S. citizens have the right to demand that the laws of the U.S. of A. be enforced by whatever agency is responsible for that enforcement. Apparently, those authorities are not being held accountable for doing such a poor job. Why then have taxpayer dollars been spent on enforcement for so many years only to realize that U.S. immigration authorities are so ineffective?

Our anger, and demands for an effective resolution of this dilemma, should be directed to D.C. (dirty cesspool)

As usual, the American taxpayer suffers due to the incompetency of our politically-directed government departments. Makes you wanta barf..............

Answer 3

Yes, they need to leave our public schools. American children are suffering, especially in the inner cities.

Answer 4

ALL we need to do is get rid of welfare and send all those Americans to work. Sorry for mentioning Work, I hope you don't report me. I get reported every time I suggest we put people to work.

Answer 5

Yes, and those who employ them,house them and aide them in any way shape or form.

Answer 6

We need only enforcement of our immigration laws.

Answer 7

we need to slam dunk them back to oscala!
get rid of them they are useless lazy and smell bad. their dental hygiene is abominable.
they smoke drugs and rape our women and children. we need to take up arms and destroy their place of work and burn the dwellings they hide in.if they run set dog's loose on them

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

This is current law and should be enforced:
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(iv)(b)(iii) "Any person who...encourages or induces an illegal alien to...reside...knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such...residence is...in violation of law, shall be punished as provided...for each illegal alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs...fined under title 18...imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."

Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274(a)(1)(A): A person (including a group of persons, businesse, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an illegal alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
*encourages that illegal alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
*knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.

Penalties upon conviction include criminal fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime. Anyone employing or contracting with an illegal alien without verifying his or her work authorization status is guilty of a misdemeanor. Aliens and employers violating immigration laws are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. In addition, individuals or entities who engage in racketeering enterprises that commit (or conspire to commit) immigration-related felonies are subject to private civil suits for treble damages and injunctive relief.

Additionally, we sent out the following letter today: If you would like to use parts or all of it, please do not hesitate to do so. If we can get 12-20 million law-abiding citizens to send or e-mail their public officials and actually take action, I think we can take our country back! Let's show them we really care!

An open letter to our media, our Justice Department, President George W. Bush, and our Federal, State, and Local Legislatures:

What if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens were members of the Mafia, Organized Crime, were dealing drugs, were running protection schemes, were bribing our legislators and government officials? What if we sold our goods on the black markets and refused to pay taxes, get driver’s licenses, pay for insurance on our homes and cars, defaulted on our mortgages and then had our friends and relatives buy them at a distressed price in foreclosure and tax sales and then do the same thing over again? What if we forged documents, used false social security numbers, registered to vote under 50 different names in 50 states or counties and failed to file state or federal tax returns? What if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens decided to send 50% of their income out of the country so they could retire like Kings and Queens in another country while collecting welfare, food stamps and other benefits? What if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens decided not to pay real estate taxes, school fees, medical bills or buy health insurance? What if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens decided to declare publicly that they would not obey our laws while demanding to have our actions legalized?

What if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens decided not to renew their driver’s licenses, their business licenses, keep up with their continuing education requirements, and holed up in churches when the law came after them? What if we declared our homes and our towns as sanctuaries for illegal actions?

What would our government do? What would our law-enforcement do? Would you send out the National Guard?

Please tell us why 12-20 million illegal aliens (undocumented workers or whatever you want to call them) do all of the above and the U.S. Government says they cannot prosecute them. What if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens decided to commit all the same crimes illegal aliens commit each day beginning on Christmas Day of 2006? What if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens decided that April 15, 2007 was not income tax return deadline but income tax freedom day or take back our country day? Would that get your attention? Would you find a way to prosecute all these people if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens decided to break these laws all at the same time? What if 12-20 million otherwise law-abiding American Citizens decided to give every government official who was not doing his/her job with accuracy and integrity a lay-off slip the day before Christmas, 2006? Please tell us why we otherwise law-abiding citizens should not be entitled to exercise this form of civil disobedience in order to bring law and order and integrity back to our country?

Marlene Hearn
Citizens Protecting Your Rights
P.O. Box 2413
Aurora, Il. 60507-2413
Phone: [phone]

Answer 10

We just need to get rid of welfare.