Illegal Immigration
© 2013 Rick Adamson
By Rick Adamson 3.27.13
Updated 9.14.18
Candy Store
Who can really blame poor folks for trying to improve their situation by wanting to come to the United States? Especially since we do not secure our borders and at the same time we appear to be a candy store offering a better way of life and abundant benefits. We offer jobs even though it is against the law to hire undocumented workers. We offer to educate and feed their children for free, we offer citizenship to their children who are born here (as well as welfare to those new citizens if they are poor ) and we offer free emergency health care, among other benefits.
If they commit crimes they are often not punished like citizens, rather they are deported giving them an opportunity to come back and commit more crimes. Further, long waiting lines and high cost contribute the illegal immigration.
Length of Time and Cost to Legally Immigrate
Immigration to the United States is often a difficult process. In addition, there may be long delays due to backlogs. In order to maintain an orderly immigration process, the U.S. has established a waiting list system. While this makes for an orderly process, it can create backlogs of many years for certain countries and certain categories. For example:
"To emigrate is a very complicated process; it takes a lot of time, and it takes a lot of money," Isabel Rubio said. "Because of a close to 20-year backlog for residents of Mexico, people don't feel like they have 20 years to wait in line.[1] Long waits are why some come in illegally.[2]
The average wait time is 6-7 years.[3] The average cost is 5-7 thousand dollars or more depending on the category of the individual.[4]
We need major reforms which should include:
√ Update VISA tracking system and deport over-stayers
√ Eliminate automatic citizenship for children born to non citizens in this country
√ Eliminate chain migration; it must be merit based
√ Eliminate all benefits for unregistered illegal aliens and their families
√ Establish a guest worker program that allows registered aliens to come in for work and then return home
√ Simplify the legal immigration process (which is a mess)
√ Reevaluate of the total number of immigrants to be allowed in each year; should be based on the needs of the Country
We need more severe punishment for those who enter illegally, i.e., Kate’s law.
For the 25,000,000 or more illegals already here, we need to have them register, check their criminal history and put them in the guest worker program. The criminal components should be deported immediately. Those registered (and in the guest worker program) could then apply for citizenship in the normal way. Those apprehended, for one reason or another, who have not registered should be deported immediately.
We need to eliminate the candy store. Maybe make it more like an amusement park and charge admission.
And That's that!
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