Immigration?

Question

I'm getting sick of hearing about illegal immigrants on Y!A. So I pose to you this question:
What do you think should be done about it?
"Tighten the border" doesn't cut it.
I want specifics.

When you say "tighten the border"
How? Fences, more border patrol?

Answer 1

First-drop teh ideological claptrap and recognize 3 facts:

1) regardless of how 12 million "illegal" immigrats got here, they ARE HERE and deporting them is a ridiculous fantasy.
2) These people are here because the are valuable to our economy.--and the flow if immigrants is NOT going to stop.
3) they are not criminals--even technically: being inthe US illegallly is not a criminal offense, it is a civil violation--like a parking ticket.

Now--here is a very simple--and specific way to solve the problem--permanently:

a) a guest worker program--and it need not be a "path to citizenship."
b) a reasonable procedure to allow the current immigrants to establish legal status--in other words, amnesty.
3) Those who are not working--or who are real criminals--would not be eligible. And the legal status would only be as a guest worker--again, no automatic "path to citizenship"--that woud depend on how the person behaved in the future.

I'm sick and tired of the "but that's rewarding breaking the law" BS--its nothing but a cover for bigotry. Like all these fake "law and order" types never had a speeding ticket or ran a stop sign. I fyou think it appropriate, levy a reasonable fine--that is all the punishiment this kind of violation warrents--under the LAW these jerks claim to be so hot to respect.

And--if a person owns up to a violation and pays a fine--how then is legal status "rewarding" lawbreakers? Like I said--thats nothing but BS.

Answer 2

1. Build the fence
2. More border agents along BOTH southern AND northern border.
3. Deny money to states/cities that do not work with federal government to deport illegals
4. Fines and jail time for employers that hire illegal immigrants

Answer 3

Withdrawal all Iraq troops. Take the money that would go to Iraq and those troops to protect the nations Borders, Ports and airports.

A fence on the Mexican border is a sad necessity.

Any illegals currently here, not working should be deported. If they are working, they should be taught English, and made to pay back-taxes.

Answer 4

"Tightening the border" nor enforcing outdated statutes will cut it. The most pragmatic solution would be to grant them a sort of temporary worker status; the opportunity for permanent residency/citizenship is not automatic nor a necessity.

Also, the gov't needs to alleviate much of the bureaucratic backlog (specifically, the quota system that gives preference to certain nationalities over others) that is the main obstacle for most Mexican immigrants to use the proper, legal channels.

Answer 5

The US is fully capable of rounding them all up and sending them back. Those who say otherwise are just not creative enough to know how to do it.

Since this is a federal issue, the fed can muster the combined strength of all state and city law enforcement agencies to track them down, and we can save the national guard for the job of deporting them. The national guard is currently part time (weekend warriors). All we have to do is make them temporarily full time, which is what we do whenever we activate a unit.

With that in mind, it seems we can do anything we want, between the extremes of letting them stay or taking them home.

Illegally coming to the US is not a horrible crime, it's simple trespassing. There's no need to go postal on them, and there's no need to do anything more than identify them as they leave so that they have a record of being in the country.

Answer 6

Tighten the borders with the use of fences, electronic surveillance, and more border patrol officers,
Begin deporting illegals and imposing fines on employers who hire them, change the law that allow anchor babies,stop giving freebies to illegals

Answer 7

"illegal" immigration should be a non-issue. i believe in open immigration and outmigration.

we should further develop the American ideal of every individual being valuable in him or herself, instead of the direction we're going in, which is one group against another.

to me, this is the logical development of what some refer to now as the "libertarian" philosophy of the Founding Fathers.

why have we been brainwashed into believing that more of "them" will take away from "us", instead of an ever-increasing pie, where more people create even more for all of us? we would do well to remember that the Pilgrims themselves were technically "illegal", because they landed someplace other than they were supposed to! people have, do, and will continue to create their own opportunities that do not take anything from anyone else.

let them all come, from wherever and whenever, and if we still want to keep track of them, then let them just register themselves when they get here.

Answer 8

1) Round them up via raids
2) Contract every bus that Greyhound, Trailways, etc. owns
3) Bus them back and charge them for the ticket by taking their cash
4) Build a double fence 20 feet deep and 20 feet high (can't tunnel or go over
5) Put trained attack dogs on the border. If someone get through, the dogs will get to them 1st.
6) If you don't like my ideas, there's the door and don't let it hit your backside on the way out!

Answer 9

Me too, but the sooner they start paying tax and health insurance, like the rest of us, It would probably become less of an issue, It'll mean they won't be seen as people who are getting away with tax-evasion, etc, etc. And i'm guessing that only the real workers would even bother to come then, as the wages of the poorest would not be worth their effort. the only other thing is to imprison those that employ illegals.

Answer 10

1. Major fines and jail time for anyone who hires illegals.
2. No benefits whatsoever for any illegal immigrants.
3. End the birthright. Make it so at least 1 parent must be a US citizen, or legal immigrant, for a child to gain citizenship at birth.
4. Make it so no one who has entered illegally, or overstayed a visa by 6 months or so, has any shot at ever becoming a citizen.
5. Put the military on the border.