How sad are you? I’m for criminals being held responsible too, but it is not a crime to ideologically oppose you.
You want to hold criminals responsible? Start with the border.
I'm fine with fixing the border, but this idea that the US is going to be able to seal 2000 miles of southern border to keep brown skin illegals out is a fools errand and only useful for politicians as a photo-op that tries to bamboozle the gullible. It's a band aid to a deeper underlying problem since I've seen reporting that half of illegal aliens enter the country legally through day trips, student visas, worker visas, and tourist visas and just never leave.
I'm NOT saying that fencing and border crossings aren't useful, they are in some areas, but to "seal" the border as some think we can do results in:
- Massive expenditures in the short term which really doesn't address the underlying cause, and the problem will return once the short term spending goes away, or
- PERMENANT Massive spending to keep what little gains are achieved.
Even then if you "seal" the border they will find other ways, such as ladders, ropes, tunneling, hell taking a boat up the west/gulf coasts and just bypass the land border.
If we want to fix the illegal alien problem in the long term we have to address WHY to illegals come here and it boils down to three main reasons: Jobs, Social Programs, and Birthright Citizenship.
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Birthright Citizenship Part 1:
Congress needs to pass a law that clarifies 14th Amendment birthright clause that it applies only to those here legally as being under the "jurisdiction thereof" as it pertains to
jus soli citizenship. That a person MUST be here legally at the time of birth for
jus soli to apply. This of course will be challenged and the SCOTUS may rule that such a law is unconstitutional.
Birthright Citizenship Part 2:
In the event the SCOTUS rules that way, take it out of their hands and amend the Constitution to enshrine it there.
Birthright Citizenship Part 3:
There should be no such thing as "anchor babies", if illegal parents have a legal child then one of three things should happen at the parents choice:
- They are deported and can take the child with them. The legal child can return at a later date, parents keep responsibility.
- The child is turned over to a legal resident or a citizen for adoption or someone who is willing to assume full responsibility legally as loco parentis.
- The child is turned over to the state for adoption or foster care placement.
JOBS:
Cut off access to jobs and hold employers responsible for employing illegals. Before we can do this though we need to fix the broken I-9 (Federal Employment Verification Form) problem and give employers the tools to make accurate hiring decisions with what I think of as "Improved Employment Verify" or iE-Verify. This system would integrate information from the IRS, SSA, State Department (Visas, Naturalization, etc.), State DMV's and State Departments of Vital Statistics (births, marriages, deaths) and employers (or a vendor) would be able to access real time and verify an individuals employment eligibility.
At such time employers would be required to verify employment and if they were found to have hired illegals (either formally or under the table) then they would face fines equal to all wages and benefits paid + plus a percentage penalty. You have to make the cost of hiring illegals exceed the savings of hiring illegals.
Along with this though will be a valid "Guest Worker" program, where businesses can sponsor workers in certain fields (such as agriculture) but will have to front a bond pending the guest workers departure.
SOCIAL PROGRAMS:
Illegal Aliens should have no access to taxpayer funded social programs including education.
If an institution (local, state, or federal) receives taxpayer funds then the will be required to reject and report. This includes public schools, public colleges/universities, social programs funded in part or in whole by taxpayers, and medical providers who receive any direct funds or are Medicare/MedicAid providers. Failure to comply will result in revocation of access to taxpayer funds for a minimum of 1 year for a first offense with additional years being tacked on for repeat offenders.
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So ya, I'm fine with dealing with criminals as it pertains to illegal aliens.
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