Thursday, March 30, 2006

American---The Land of Exploitation?

Ted Kennedy yesterday denied that his proposed legislation is "amnesty" because it does not
"forgive" but has "penalties" and certain requirements before the illegal aliens can get "back of the line" for naturalization. The truth of the matter is the illegal aliens are "getting in the line" before others and are 'getting in a line' that they wouldn't get into in the first place. Who is going to collect the fines, and who will determine if they can speak English well enough to satisfy the requirements, who is going to determine if they work hard and are good citizens? All these things take resources and organization.
Lou Dobbs debated Jorge Ramos about illegal immigration, a term which I think is a misnomer, and Ramos kept trying to put Dobbs on the spot by asking Dobbs why he was against immigration, as if illegal immigration is immigration in the first place. Talk about dishonest discourse. That is why I think the term "illegal immigrant" is a misnomer, because those who distort the issue like Jorge Ramos does, uses illegal immigrant and immigrant as a single term. An "illegal immigrant" is not an immigrant. He or she only becomes an immigrant when someone like Ted Kennedy slips in an amnesty program to let them "backdoor" immigrate.
Everyone it seems is trying to put a "human face" to the illegal aliens, or as I prefer to call them--elicit foreign nationals--which tends to legitimize their position in some peoples minds.
The danger is that the problem will grow in an exponential way, because the more of them that live here the more of a haven or base others can depend on to thwart U.S. efforts to deal with them. The word gets out that the American government is throwing up its hands and saying the problem is too great to return them, so they can stay in the U.S. Well, there is a way to stem and turn back the tide of elicit foreign nationals from coming into and staying illegally in this country.
Fine employers $10,000 for each elicit foreign national that they hire. Require that the employer determine status of any employee that they suspect of being a foreign national and contact the government if in doubt. Make it a definite responsibility of the employer to verify that the employee is legal. Ignorance of status will not be an excuse!
Establish a task force of IRS and Immigration investigators, and data bases to support the task force, that would "visit" those industries and businesses who regularly use cheap labor; such as farmers, meat packing plants, janitorial services, restaurants, landscaping, construction, hotels, day laborers, etc. The fines would pay for the program.
Controlling the border would be much easier because when the word got out there were no longer jobs available, or easy to find, the attractiveness of work in the U.S. would wane.
Another part of the remedy would be to make crossing over the border illegally a high misdemeanors, or lesser felony, with a penalty of six months hard labor. The first time caught, a warning; the second time, six months; the third time, a year; the fourth time a year and a half etc.
Any "well-meaning" abettor would be subject also to a $10,000 fine and six months in jail. The problem is not just "one" or "two" unlawful foreign nationals transgressing our borders it is a "movement" of vast proportions , which will grow at an exponential rate. It must be stopped.

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