I apologize, I misread the post. However the claim that we must be MORE open is patently crazy. Allowing 12 to 20 million illegals to become legal will ENSURE millions more illegals flood our country.
First, it is your idea that we must seal our border that is patently crazy because it threatens our national security by making it impossible for us to know who is here and why they are here. You keep saying, " we must catch and deport 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants them and then we must deport them." This position prevents us from knowing who is here and why they are here while mine is to find out who is here and to grant them legal status (not the same as citizenship or permenant residency, etc) and to make sure the only people here illegally are those who intend us harm. Second, everytime someone comes to the United States either by plane, bus, car or ship they should do so at designated points of entry. Third, once we have an open and secure border established (as opposed to a closed and sealed) we can establish a clear immigration and naturalization policy.
This is how we will prevent mass immigration and establish a comprehensive border, immigration and naturalization policy that keeps us safe while providing clear guidelines as to who can become a U.S. citizen and the process for becoming a citizen. The fact that someone lives or works in the United States shouldn't automatically put them on track to become a citizen. When you have these 12 to 20 million coming here legally through designated points of entry the only people that our border patrol will have to worry about is those who intend us harm and do not want us to know they are here. This addresses every single concern posed by illegal immigration and prevents it in all its forms. There simply would be no reason for someone to enter this country illegally as it would not benefit them to do so while entering the country legally will become more common. One of the tenants of a free society is the freedom of movement and as you limit that you take away that right you will find that people will begin to violate the law and put us and others in danger as a result.
Deport them as we catch them, stop them from entering by any means possible and for GOD's sake fine and arrest Officials and companies that ignore the law and hire them. I do not mean arrest those that accidently hire them, I mean arrest the serial offenders that facilitate hiring and turn a blind eye to verification.
With your position we will never know who is here and that means that terrorists can come to this country and do us harm. It is only as we begin to recognize the problem sealing our border and immediate deportation, if caught, poses. Think of it this way, "you have 12 million illegal immigrants coming here and 2 or 3 terrorists doing so illegally. Now if the border patrol must worry about 12 million illegal immigrants they are far less likely to catch the 2 or 3 terrorists who are sneaking into the country wheareas if you take the 12 million out of the equation by having an open and secure border the border patrol can now focus on apprehending those who come here to do us harm. It is absolutely necessary for us to know who is here and why they are here. This position is consistent with that of the Bush administration as well and it is not often that I agree with them but in this they recognize our need to know who is coming into this country. When you have a sealed borde (as opposed to a secure border) this is impossible as people will then find illegal ways to do what they should be doing legally which is entering this country.
This though is not going to happen because neither main party WANTS it to happen. We will pay a steep price when our open borders result in the terror attacks to come.
No, it is as the 10 terrorists come across the border with a group of illegal immigrants and aren't caught because the border patrol are stretched thin that your position will result in more Americans dying in terrorist attacks. Those with narrow minds assume that simply adding more border security will solve the problem but what they fail to understand it becomes almost impossible to capture and apprehend the handful of terrorists among the millions of people who come here illegally while it is far easier to flag a person as suspicious and not allow them to enter the U.S at a point of entry and then to catch them trying to cross the border illegally in this scenario because you can be 100% positive that the only people crossing the border intend to do us harm because everyone else is free to legally enter and exit the country at will. Once that is done, and once we have achieved this open and secure border then it is obvious that we need to address the issue of immigration and naturalization.
The first thing we must accept is that you do not need to be a U.S. citizen to live and work in the United States. If you want to live in the U.S. and have a job in Mexico, Canada or Japan or vice versa than so be it. We currently have millions of undocumented workers benefiting from our system without paying taxes because we don't know they are in the country. The solution to this is simple, "if you live and work in Mexico you pay Mexican property and income tax, and if you live and work in the United States you pay U.S. income and property tax and if you work in Mexico and live in the United States than you pay Mexican income tax and U.S. property tax but if you work in the United States and live in Mexico you pay U.S. income tax and Mexico property tax." This should hold true of any country. Now if we have this open and secure border combined with a clear and comprhensive immigration and naturalization policy (i.e., simply living and working here does not automatically make you a citizen) who are the people crossing the border illegally somewhere other than a designated point of entry? The answer to that is that the only people doing this are those who intend to do us harm.
