Both parties are wrong on immigration reform.

[LilOlLady]

BOTH PARTIES ARE WRONG ON IMMIGRATION REFORM.

Left say legalization first. Right say border security first. Both are wrong. They have lost sight of why there are 12 million illegal aliens here. Jobs and automatic birthright citizenship are the incentives. Enforcement has always been the solution and always will be the solution. Enforcement in raids on businesses, arrests and deportation. Workplace enforcement alone will secure the border because if they cannot work they leave and they will not come.

Deporting 400,000 a year is a waste of time and money if businesses are still allowed to hire them. Those 400,000 deported are most likely back here. Nothing will stop them for from crossing the border, dropping anchors and collecting welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, WIC and free medical care if businesses are still able to hire them as an unlimited source of cheap labor and another promise of amnesty.

Automatic birthright citizenship and jobs are an invitation to come and a welcome mat. If we don’t take away the incentives they will continue to come and nothing will stop them. If we had done workplace enforcement in 1986 we would not be dealing with 12 million illegal aliens today and that should be a lesson learned but it‘s not. We need a visa program for highly skilled immigrants, not dish washers and baby sitters, and a temporary farm labor program. No reason why we should add 12 million low wage earners to the workforce when we already have millions of unskilled unemployed American workers. No reason to make it easier for children of illegal aliens to attend college when we have millions of American children who need college made more affordable.

 

[proudveteran06]

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[waltky]

Napolitano called irresponsible...

Backlash grows over release of illegal immigrants; GOP wants to know who gave final approval
Monday, March 11, 2013 - The Obama administration’s decision to release some immigrants awaiting deportation back into the community has spawned a furious backlash from Congress, where stunned lawmakers have besieged the Homeland Security Department with questions.

Department officials have described the move as a cost-savings measure required by the budget sequesters, but two years ago one top official testified to Congress that detaining immigrants is usually cheaper than releasing them. As the questions build, so does pressure on Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano, who has not yet answered the requests, signed by dozens of Senate and House members, to detail who exactly has been released, why they were being held in the first place, and who gave final approval. “It is frankly irresponsible that your agency chose releasing detained immigrants as its first effort to control spending,” a group of 37 House Republicans, led by Reps. Matt Salmon of Arizona and Duncan Hunter of California, said in a letter Friday.

On Monday, Sen. Daniel Coats, the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee that oversees immigration, took to the Senate floor to say the department cannot duck his questions. He speculated that the release has already spurred a new wave of illegal immigration. “I can see the traffickers pitching this to tens or hundreds of thousands of people, taking their money, getting them across the border, breaching the fence or tunneling under the fence or climbing over the fence,” Mr. Coats said. An internal ICE memo obtained and released last week by the HouseJudiciary Committee found that the agency contemplated releasing 1,000 immigrants a week — far more than the several hundred it said it released.

By the end of March, ICE would be detaining fewer than 26,000 immigrants, or 5,000 fewer than in mid-February. Congress has given ICE funding to detain about 34,000 on any given day, but the agency had been running at about 36,500 on the average day, meaning it was already over budget even before the sequesters. ICE has blamed both the sequesters and “fiscal uncertainty” stemming from the 2013 appropriations process for the cuts. Congress only passed funding for half of the year, and must approve the other half by March 27. Administration officials said that while they have released immigrants, they pose little danger to the community, and all of them are still being supervised, either through electronic device or by a check-in requirement.

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[whitehall]

Border security is ....wrong? A good analogy is mopping the basement floor while the pipe is broken.