Sessions is starting to warm to a Republican immigration plan, did you see?

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He said he was admittedly "hard-nosed" about the bill last year but his principle opposition to amnesty, or allowing illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship, has not changed.

"We can have a ... track for temporary workers that don't have to have skills and the education level," Sessions said. "And a separate track for those who want to become permanent residents and citizens. That's the way I see it. It's a common-sensical thing and it's sort of interesting that people are coming around to it. Surprise, surprise."

The formal debate has not begun on the Hill, but Sessions said he would back a package that improves border security, holds businesses accountable if they hire illegal workers and gives preference to new immigrants who learn English and have a job skill or higher education level.

"As for the people that are here, it's going to be very painful for everybody," Sessions said. "It is not going to be possible to remove everybody that's here. We'll have to create a system that is compassionate and realistic."

What do you think?

Answer 1

I hadn't seen this until you brought it here. Thank you again for providing us with news that we don't all see unless it is provided here.

Personally, I don't trust this plan.

Will there be an absolutely fool-proof method of tracking the workers and ensuring that they leave when their work visa expires?

Will there be a definite and consistent clamping down on ALL employers who may skirt the program and continue to hire illegal immigrants who are not in the temporary worker program, and I mean to the tune of huge fines/jail time, etc. to ensure that it is NOT financially beneficial to them to continue hiring illegals?

What about those temporary workers who continue having babies in the US? Will they do something to ensure that the magnet of freebies for the "US citizen" babies of temporary workers is no longer available?

What about those applicants for the temporary work program who cannot qualify for the visas due to past criminal record or having been deported before or for whatever other reasons? These people do not seem to understand the word "NO." What will be done on the borders to ensure that these people who have been told "NO" will not just sneak on in illegally, anyways?

What about the individuals, towns, cities and states who do not enforce the immigration laws and continue to be "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants and continue to aid and abet them. There will be those people who will continue to cover and hide their illegal loved ones, friends and family members that cannot qualify for the temporary workers program or even for future immigration/citizenship, and so they will want to continue to try to harbor these people, despite the new enforcement. Will there be severe penalties for this?

Lastly, I do not buy into the saying that it is "impossible to deport all the illegal immigrants currently in the USA today." I truly believe that if ALL the immigration laws were strictly and consistently enforced, including NOT allowing illegal immigrants and their children ANY access to social services, the education system, free medical care (emergency care only and then immediate deportation), etc., then many of the illegals currently here would eventually remove themselves voluntarily and word would spread back to their countries that illegal immigration is no longer viable in the USA, thus removing incentives from future would-be illegal immigrants. The rest would surface one-by-one, two-by-two, over time as they eventually turned up via police, corrections, or as they show up for medical care, etc. These people could be deported as they turn up. This may take time, perhaps 5 years, but the long-term savings to the taxpaying citizens of the USA would be realized over those years. Also, when they are found to be using fake/fraudulent SSNs and other ID, they should be severely penalized, to the point that everything they own; cars, homes, bank accounts, should be confiscated as ill-gotten gains, and they should be immediately deported with a lifetime ban on ever being allowed in the USA again.

I do understand the need to be compassionate. I am not a hateful person. I feel for others, as most citizens of the USA do. Many of these illegal immigrants have been able to get away with living here illegally for many years and the blame for that should be put on our government, as well as on the immigrants and employers, for allowing this to go on for so long. I am sorry for the children they have brought here who have grown up not knowing their countries and believing that the USA is their country, but that is the fault of the parents. I am sorry for the "US babies" they have had while here who are going to have their worlds shaken up when their parents are deported, but the blame for that belongs to their parents, too. It is not the end of the world. Those children can accompany their parents when they go - we do not have to split up families. Those children can return one day as adults, if they so choose. However, ultimately I believe the anchor baby law needs to be changed to not allow citizenship for a child unless at least one parent is a US citizen - no exceptions. These people tend to believe that if they have a baby on US soil, then they have it made, and rightly so because this has been the case for so long.

And once and for all, I would like to see Immigration officials go into that church and physically remove that woman who has been holed up there and deport her once and for all out of the USA, with NO chance of EVER returning again!

Anyways, thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion on this issue. I hope some of the candidates come up with some solid evidence that they would endorse all these things as they try to come up with a plan that would be endorsed by the citizens of the USA.

Answer 2

Well this is what I think:
I don't believe in a "track for temporary workers", It's not a"common-sensical thing. And we are NOT coming around to it, SURPRISE,SURPRISE!
I believe we can rid the U.S. of all the illegals. We need to help ICE and report illegal alien activity, we need to help these guys out.
And I would like to add that Bob Stallman of the American Farm Bureau, is a lying lazy piece of sh*t!

Answer 3

I think they need to realize what is right for these United States and NOT what is right for Mexico or the Corporations. There should be no compromise for illegal aliens. We already played this game in the 1980s and it just made things worse. We need to have another Operation Wet- back done...no, that is not being racist, that is called part of US history.