The Right GOP Immigration Package

Debra supports unlimited legal/illegal immigration because her job will never be taken by them. I always find it very interesting to see how folks like her resort to the "poor immigrant" story to justify their position. It's always concern for the poor, abused, mistreated, "migrant". Hypocrites like her never write articles or support their fellow United States citizens. She will never express concern for folks who have lost their jobs, homes, familes, towns to legal/illegal immigrants. Construction Workers, Road Workers, Roofers, Meat Packers, Heavy Equipment Operators, Computer Programmers, Restaurant Workers, etc. etc. These are all occupations that are being taken over by illegal aliens but for her they are expendable. They are just proles to her. Both parties support the same thing but for different reasons. Democrats support unlimited legal/illegal immigration and open borders because they see them as Democrat voters and have been on a mission since the overhaul of Immigration in the early 60's. According to them the United States needed to be punished for our past crimes against humanity and the white "European" majority needed to be eliminated. The Republicans support it because it keeps wages down and more of the economic pie in their greedy pockets. Debra, the cast majority of the American people want closed borders, a massive slowdown in legal immigration and deportation of illegals already here. The Elitists in both parties need to wake up to the fact that the "Great Society" experiment is over. It's a complete and utter failure...

I am a minor-league columnist published locally for more than 30 years, and I sponsored several Latinos for the 1986 Reagan Amnesty.
I am both pro-Latino, and anti-illegal immigration so I seek a humane and workable solution. My Dream Act solution is:
Grant citizenship as proposed to those children (limited to age 25) who COMPLETE at least an AA degree, or join the military and serve with honor – BUT – they get no right of familial citizenship. They do not get to bring their family into the US once they get their citizenship as they would under the Dream Act.
Now we are talking about several hundred thousand educated or trained, instead of several million semi-illiterates.
I believe this Variation on a Theme is a good middle point that can get wider support.
Additionally, I have proposed a workable solution to our problem of illegals living amongst us:
Illegal immigration is a classic cost/benefit problem.
The "cost" is the social and financial cost incurred by the FAMILIES of illegal alien workers in school, medical and criminal activities.
The benefit is the workers labor in labor fields where American labor is lacking.
The problem is that those who benefit do not pay the cost.
Most solutions call for some deportation of otherwise law-abiding women and children. This raises hackles on the necks of many Americans.
My plan institutes a "carrot" to entice those families to self-deport, and a “stick” if they do not take the carrot. (All at no additional cost to the taxpayers.)
1) Secure the Border.
2) Deport ALL CONVICTED CRIMINAL illegal alien.
3) Double (or even TRIPLE) LEGAL immigration from all Latin countries.
4) Institute a Worker program with all current illegal alien WORKERS IN SPECIFIC LABOR CATEGORIES eligible for a 10-year Green Card (renewable in 5 year increments on good behavior) -- IF (and ONLY if) they agree to have their non-American citizen family-members move back immediately to their home country. (Violators will lose their Green Card status).
5) Institute a CONTROLLED Guest Worker program of new workers, based on 2 year, unaccompanied tours, (renewable 3 times on good behavior).
This proposal would blunt claims of racism, decrease immeasurably the social cost drain on the taxpayer, and provide a large source for low-cost labor while keeping the remittances to Latin countries generally untouched.
This is a win-win situation in which there is an incentive for self-deportation of the family drain on taxpayers, while keeping the benefit(s) of labor in a known and regulated manner.
I like illegal aliens -- I have fed them, housed them, arranged for their work, and collected their just debts -- all at no cost.
But I hate illegal immigration because the social cost has far exceeded the labor benefit.
Let's discuss humane solutions to human problems, and leave the punitive methods to the most egregious matters. Deportation is a method more suitable to a problem that requires instant solutions – our illegal alien population has lived with us with minimal problems for many decades, and while we need to address the problem it can stand to be addressed in a less contentious manner than letting line-breakers stay at the front of the line or deportation.
And make no mistake, the Democrats policy will leave the line-breakers at the head of the line – they remain comfortable in the US for years while other Latinos who have behaved properly remain in Rio, or Mexico City.
My proposal has added importance since the passing of the Healthcare Bill. Those self-deporting families are at the low end of the economic scale and will require subsidies, while those who apply for the increased legal immigration must, by law, have a sponsor who attests that the sponsor will pick up the economic slack if the immigrant is not capable.
We trade well-educated Latino immigrants in a legal status for basically uneducated Latino immigrants in an illegal status.
(The Democrats proposal does not address at all the millions of illegal aliens who choose NOT to even apply for American citizenship!)
I urge you to take and tweak this proposal to your liking and support some workable solution.
Respectfully,
Allen Hemphill