My Solution to Immigration Problem
 

I think that the problem with illegal immigration is out of control. Something should have obviously been done a long time ago. But at this point, we have to accept the situation that we're in and figure out how to deal with it.

It's not realistic or practical to deport 15 million people. The truth of the matter is we actually need a lot of them. I don't know how many we need. I don't think we neeed 15 million of them but we probably need 5-10 million. If they all left, tons of businesses would close. Practically every restaurant would close until all new people were hired. There would be no horseracing until all new people were hired. We would be in big trouble if all the illegal immigrants left.

Anyway at this point I think the first thing we need to do is seal the border to make sure that no more illegal immigrants come here.

The ones that are already here should be allowed to stay provided that they are employed and they have no felony convictions. We don't need to make them citizens. We can just give them a temporary work card that they would all be required to have. We could charge them around $150 a year for the work card. That would generate some money for the government. If you multiply 15 million people x $150 that would generate $2.5 billion a year.

We could make it a serious crime for any business to hire an alien that doesn't have one of these work cards.

I think this plan would be good for a number of reasons. One good thing that it would do is separate the workers from the criminals. Anyone convicted of a felony would be deported and wold not be eligible to get a work card. So we would have nothing but law-abiding immigrants that are here to work.

Your solution is fatally flawed. The left considers "sealing the border" to be racist and does not want to lose the barrio's votes and would never go for it.

There is no solution that will make everyone happy. This seems like a good compromise that most people would probably be open to.

Could they pay the $150 with corn and/or tacos? If so, I'm all for this. Pupkin for Prez!

I'd support sealing the border. I mean...it is our border. Who is Mexico to tell us what we can and cannot do with our own land?

The left doesnt deal with racists like you

The left doesn't complain right now about the border being closed to illegal immigrants. Maybe the left doesn't complain because they know it's not closed very tight and it's easy to sneak in.

I'm not sure I've heard the left complain much about better border controls. There probably is a quote out there somewhere contradicting that, but the only realistic solution is amnesty for the ones here and closure to keep the others out.

But it's probably not a good idea to call it "amnesty" because there are so many people that are against "amnesty" for illegal aliens. People don't want illegal aliens to be given citizenship. So we don't need to make them citizens. We can just give them a "work visa" or "work card" or whatever you want to call it.

I agree with you %100 on your solution.

has it occurred to anyone that perhaps the real reason there is no amnesty granted is that suddenly you'd add many millions to the official rolls? they could then get all the things that they currently cannot. you think we have issues now, consider that. then, if you grant amnesty, how many more show up between the passing of amnesty, and the last day to apply? seal the border? absolutely? continue to give work visas, by all means. grant citizenship? only on the continued limited basis we have now. think about the fact that our border with canada isn't an issue, but with mexico it is. cheap labor, that's why. why would anyone benefitting from it really want that to change? why aren't terrorists taking advantage, but mexicans are? that border isn't porous like some think.

IMO the same plan for the oil disaster in the Gulf should be applied to the illegal problem in that priority one should be stopping the leak while we simultaneously contain and dissipate the contamination that has occurred.

If N. Korea w/their very limited resources can detect a 110 lb oriental/American feet after crossing the border surely we can do the same.

Ditto from me. Seal it....

Seal the border. If they want to cross the border then shot them.

Do they make a Tazer Fence?

I think they all should be shooted, too!!

That sounds like an awesome idea.

Right now (at least for the next 2 years) we need to finally and likely the only time follow Jesse Jackson Sr.'s recommendation


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHflFFKoaNM

make this the most LAME DUCK President the country has ever seen.

It would probably blow out the 5 state power grid!

LAME DUCK is being nice to the sorry excuse that is President. As Hannity said last week "HE IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO US AMERIANS" makes me wonder who side this so-called President is on.