Do you think our immigration crisis will finally be gotten under control?

Question

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272676,00.html

he proposed agreement would allow illegal immigrants to come forward and obtain a probationary "Z visa" and — after paying fees and fines of up to $5,000 and returning to their home countries — ultimately try for permanent residency, which could take between eight and 13 years. The process couldn't begin until border security improvements and a high-tech worker identification program were completed.

A new temporary guest worker program would also have to wait until those so-called "triggers" had been activated. And all but the highest-skilled temporary workers would have to return home after work stints of two or three years, with barely any opportunity to apply for permanent legal status or ever become U.S. citizens.

Answer 1

Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

Answer 2

No, our immigration crisis will continue until we get leaders that really want to get tough on the illegal immigrants. This Comprehensive Immigration plan will allow most of the 12 to 20 million illegals to gain citizenship. If you reward law-breakers with citizesnship, why should other foreigners not break our laws and come into our country. After all, if you do not punish law-breakers, the crime will continue, as happened after the last amnesty in 1986.

We need leaders like, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, and Tom Tancredo who will build the border fence and deport most of the illegal allien invaders. With weaklings like George Bush, Harry Reid, and Ted Kennedy leading our country we are in deep trouble.

Answer 3

This administration doesn't want to fix the immigration problem - they would rather suck up to the Saudis and the Iraqis for the oil they have at their disposal.
The immigration problem could be fixed if the borders were closed and the borders were properly guarded. What we have is an incompetent administration and congress.

Answer 4

How on EARTH does that address the roblem to begin with? Where is the visa exit tracking system? What about chain migration?

Answer 5

This whole thing is a joke and the middle class tax payer is going to have to pay cost of this out of control immigration folly. Not only in our pockets but in our way of life.

Answer 6

Send 'em all back, including the descendants of any who didn't present the proper papers when they arrived. Oops! That's all of us, including the so-called Native Americans whose ancestors crossed at the Bering Straits. Guess that means nobody stays.

Answer 7

Controlled? Solved sounds more decent.. only push arounds are controlled!

Answer 8

It won't work. Where's the incentive for illegal aliens to come forward?

Answer 9

i really don't see these criminals paying the fines or returning on their own. the only way i see them signing up for this is if they think they'll get some kind of hand-out from it.