The GOP controls the debate so why are we even discussing this shit?
We know the Democrats are not honest participants in earnest debate so why bother with them? Let them sit in the BACK OF THE BUS. ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. Remember all that?
Finance the wall and move on. That was your promise to get our votes so stop dicking around and DO THE JOB YOU WERE ELECTED TO DO.
Dear
Grampa Murked U:
If schools, businesses and churches/nonprofits want to sponsor students and workers, just require them to take full legal and financial responsibility for
sponsorship of whichever applicants they accept, similar to accepting school applications and managing foreign exchange students.
Put the burden back on the people, organizations and communities to adopt and manage the members they want to sponsor.
I can't find the post, but someone else posted that the laws in the US USED to require sponsors to take financial responsibility
to ensure that new immigrant applicants were stabilizing, with viable work and ability to support themselves so they didn't become a burden to others.
I searched but all I found so far was a reference to other countries having similar laws requiring financial sponsorship:
EX:
Immigration.. what the Heck
This post also refers to old immigration laws, but not the post I was looking for that explained this in more accurate historical detail. This is close:
English should be the official language?
I think this is the post:
Debate Now - Trump's Immigration Proposal
"Back in the 1960's, the U.S. was accepting thousands of refugees from Castro's Cuba. There was the same concern then as now that Castro would dump the worst of the worst Cuba had to offer on us among those refugees.
So everyone entering the country had to merit a green card by having a sponsor--somebody who would agree to furnish the head of household with a job, make sure folks had a decent place to live, and some way to learn English within a reasonable time. Our church took in a family--father, mother, and two middle school age kids. We provided transportation from Miami, inexpensive housing, furniture, some starter household necessities were donated and the father was given a job as custodian of the church until such time as he acquired enough English to qualify for a better job. (He was a well educated and highly competent individual.). The mother also learned quickly and found employment. The kids were smart, quick, and fluent in English within the year and doing well in school. (We provided a tutor/translator for them for the first few months of school.) All were given training in citizenship etc. in preparation for naturalization as citizens when they came up in the queue.
It was a win win proposition for all. The USA gained wonderful new citizens and it didn't cost the taxpayer a dime except to process the papers for the family to be here legally. And had our adopted family been one of the bad ones and committed serious crime, I believe the church would have been liable. Thus we vetted the family before we accepted them.
So there is the solution. Make the policy similar to Canada's for new immigrants. The person has to have a sponsor that will ensure the family will have a job providing a living wage and will otherwise not be a burden on social services or the person needs to have financial resources to support himself/herself.
And in addition, make the sponsor liable for any crimes committed by the sponsored during the course of the sponsorship.
Those who can't find a sponsor or meet strict vetting requirements won't receive either a green card or a travel visa." --
Foxfyre, 2016