Yesterday night my wife's Aunt, Uncle and two cousins legally immigrated to the United States. Even though I could tell they were a bit scared, being thousands of miles from their home while leaving all they had and all they knew behind, I could see the excitement and wonder in their eyes. I asked her cousin if he was excited and he smiled from ear to ear and said, "Oh yes!". It made me feel really good that our country can provide that opportunity for people, but it also tore me up a bit. Here is why.
So, my in-laws petitioned for their immigration. Do you know how long it took for them to get here? 26 years. It took 26 years for them to arrive. It took so long, in fact, that some of their children (none of whom had been born when the petition was filed) were too old to be included and had to stay. This is outrageous.
We allow millions of illegal immigrants to come in every year without getting in trouble. Hell, if their family had come to the US illegally, they would have been granted amnesty already. Not only that, but all of their children would have been legal US citizens regardless of their parents status since they would have been born here. So, by breaking the law they would have been rewarded multiple times.
Something is seriously wrong with our system that it takes that long to immigrate legally. It is even more wrong that we reward illegal immigrants with drivers licenses, health care, welfare, and other public funds.
We have to clamp down on our borders, and we have to stream line legal immigration processes. The end.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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14th Amendment: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
I propose a 3 part plan:
1. Change the wording of the above to say persons born to at least one citizen parent. That way we don't have to naturalize every kid, but still take away the incentive to come here and have babies.
2. Expand the El Paso plan across the entire Southern border.
3. Issue high powered rifles and shoot on sight orders to all guards posted on the wall.
Not only would this stem the flow of illegals, but would also create a huge public works project in areas that have high unemployment and a glut of out of work laborers.
Creating public projects to give people employment is the wrong answer. Shooting people is the wrong answer.
Stopping people from entering a country illegally? Not giving them drivers licenses? Not paying their medical expenses? Easy and correct.
Expediting the legal immigration process? Easy and correct (and will cut down on illegal immigration I assume).
Illegal entry is not a "shoot-on-sight" crime. Illegals that commit crimes? They should not be exiled -- they should be punished to the full extent of the law, then returned to their country of origin. Gnome enthusiast's idea is the best. Dry up their perks.
The only way you dry up the perks is by America being worse than Mexico. I am not on board with this idea.
I didn't say my idea would be clean or popular, but it's the only way to fix the problem.
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