Unbelievable that liberals can't get past their ideological differences and admit that the border needs to be closed for the security of our country.
We know the border needs to be more secure...a Wall across the entire border is unfeasible and cost prohibitive and a waste of all of our tax dollars in regions of the border where there is no population concentrations on either side and mountains and desserts making it more likely that the illegals trying to come in through these barren areas are more likely to die, than to make it to the fence. We are fine with putting fences and walls where the population of those crossing is high, and security mans them so they can stop those illegals trying to cross.
We are not for open borders and immigrants coming in illegally.
We believe the employers who hire illegals are the ones that are the true problem, and are why most illegals if not all illegals, that traverse the border come here. We believe if laws were passed with some grit to them with penalties and jail time high, this would stop the flow of illegals coming down to a trickle....get to the ROOT of the problem and not just try to deal with symptoms, with money we don't have to spare....
The Republican Party went against Ronald Reagan's proposals on amnesty back in the 1980's where Reagan had strong penalties for American businesses and the people who run them was the right way to approach this and not have to go through another Amnesty of illegals again.
The Republican Party was lobbied by the Chamber of commerce and the Small Business association to DROP the harsh penalties for employers that hired illegals in Reagan's proposal for Amnesty and they were 'watered down' and THIS IS WHY we are in this predicament today...deja vu... BECAUSE the Republicans had the penalties for employers who hire illegals diminished and meaningless.
Democrats only want amnesty for these children of illegals and other various groups of law abiding citizens (other than crossing the border or over staying their visas to work here) because congress has NOT APPROPRIATED enough funds to deport all of them, in fact they have appropriated so little to do this that it would take near 20-30 years at the funding rate to deport those here illegally. This is why, with the limited amount of funds, they are concentrating on removing the criminals, felons, gang members, drug dealers first and have them as a priority.
Democrats understand the rule of law, which states that every single one of those here illegally, GETS THEIR DAY IN COURT, before they can be deported....that costs money, money we do not have and has never been appropriated.
The reason we accept amnesty for the rest of the law abiding and young children, especially the young children who were born here's parents, where the children are citizens...so the family will not be spit apart, which is inhumane....under any circumstance.
We also accept amnesty as Reagan did, because if you made them legal, then there would be no incentive for employers to hire them....over Americans....all the taxes would have to be paid by the employers and all the laws like minimum wage laws would have to be followed and all the other laws for legal American citizens and legal immigrants would have to be followed....the incentive to hire illegals over Americans would be eliminated and those initially here illegally would have the means to demand more money and could easily walk off a job that is under paying them, making WAGES GO UP for all Americans and a level competitive playing field instead of all balls in the illegal's court.
