We Can Create A Guest Worker Program,
But We Need To Step By Step Secure Our Borders.
© September 29, 2006 by M. Emmett Townsend
The Order of Business in HomeLandSecurity:
#1 Secure the borders, both (Canada and Mexico) are particularly important.
#2 Secure the cargo systems better. We can in no way check all container, but we need to increase the percentage of those searched and yes focus on those countries of origin that are more likely because of activities of their nationals in relation to smuggling and terrorism. To ignore the higher % of terrorist assaults by one particular group or area of the world is to be illogical, we need to use logic to secure the cargo and protect both our country and the firms doing the import export business. If 50% of all smuggling is from Asia then we need to check the cargo appropriately more then other areas. (This is the Grandma didn't blow up any planes argument, so why do we stop old American ladies as much as we stop others? I know of no grandma's bombing anything except in the old west trying to get sunny out of jail…even then most of that is not fact but fiction)
#3 Set up a guest worker program to include country of origin criminal records searches (This program the US farmers don't want because then the people will have to be paid more for their work.)
#4 Setup exact proceeding for return of any illegal not a haphazard program, but return within 72 hours from Border States and up to 5 days from any state.
#5 Allow those who were here illegally but not guilty of any (above mister meaner, and none drug related crime to be ignored) crime other then false identity and illegal entry to be sent home but otherwise allowed to apply for the guest worker program. (We are not trying to penalize people for trying to make a better life, America is a land of opportunity, and seeking hope is not a true crime.)
#6 Any illegal guilty of non-violent (mister meaner, not drug related crime to be ignored) crime sent home and (mister meaner, none drug related crime to be ignored) not be allowed to become guest worker, ever.
#7 Any illegal guilty of a violent crime to be tried in the US, incarcerated any bank account or assets seized to pay for the incarceration. At the end of their incarceration they are to be photographed again fingerprinted and then delivered to the country of origin. If not guilty sent home to country of origin or other country of origin, and not be allowed to become guest worker, ever.
What are your thoughts?
Could this work?
What additions would you make?
What changes?
Some aspects of the above plan lack detail because I don't know all the legal structures needed, but I feel this is a good beginning.
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Comments: 15
i heard of a case where someone was arrested for molesting a child and handed over to ice and they were back here within days of deportation. then they committed a murder or something after they came back. as far as i'm concerned, they need to serve their time for a crime before we deport them. no probation. no release before trial. they have to understand that illegal immigrants are often less connected to communities than american citizens, have a history of lawbreaking by coming over illegally, and are not good candidates for community release while they await trials.
it appears to me that we should raise our immigration quota/standards from mexico also.
#1. Our country is at full employment. The guest worker program must come first or this country will go into recession.
#2. 100% of all cargo containers are inspected for radiation and dangerous chemicals using electronic devices. Cargo containers are physically inspected randomly, when anything looks suspicious, and when the container comes from a country we don't trust.
Other things that need to be added:
8. Everybody who's here legally has to leave and reenter to be processed at the border. All biometric data must be collected and put in a national database.
9. Require employment BEFORE they enter the country. If they're already here and working they can reenter. If they don't have a job, they can't reenter. Companies have to go to Mexico to recruit or hire another company to do it. Foreigners can't just cross the border and look for a job.
Deportation emmediotly after the end of sentance, if they can't pay the fine jail time should be a must. It will cost us more $ upfront but in time it would teach the imagrants a new way of doing things... hopefuly a legal one.
I do not believe in catch and release. except over the border.
None of this part of it can work till we secure the border FIRST... otherwise deportationis a joke.
Now, in modern times, we have the Mexicans, Philippines, and other Latin countries.
The claim that there are not enough Americans willing to do menial jobs is false. The truth is employers do not want to pay the Americans enough money to do the menial jobs. The minimum wage law does not pertain to illegals. Perhaps, that is what Congress needs to pass: a law that requires illegals to be paid the same wage that legal workers and American Citizens receive. Sadly, that will never happen because it would force the market to skyrocket and consumers would be unable to buy the bare necessities needed to live.
Heck if there is a resesion then mayhaps we cvan hire enough border guards and that will help the income and ecomomy as well as protecting the border.. (this was an off the top idea, I am not prepared to argue for it. =+))
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Gingrich is one of my hero's. He may not be a perfect person (none of us are), but one man with allot of knowledge and wisdom, an asset to America
There is no doubt that there is some work to be done, and labor needed. I have no problem with a guest worker program that is regulated to actual need, and not just a facade. I would think most would agree to your ideas.
Thanks.
taking in these dollars (called remittances) as, believe it or not, their # 2 source of
income (2nd only to their oil exports).
So, as it was for 1000 years in medeival days, we now have one society(Mexico) pillaging its neighbor (us) for its wealth. Guess what we're getting ripped for ?$40 Billion/year in remittances (according to the GAO), and another $62 Billion/year of us paying Mexico's poverty bill (hospital tabs, food stamps for anchor babies, college tuitions, etc.) Mexico has quite a scam going on here (for 30 years actually). They just dump all their poor people on us, we pay the bills, and most of their paychecks get extracted out of our economy, and re-inserted into theirs.
It's like if your (relatively wealthy) neighbors sent their 6 kids to your door barefoot
on a cold day, while they sit in their living rooms, waiting for you to take the kids to
the store and buy them shoes. Yes, the kids need the shoes but it is THEM, your
neighbors who should be buying them not you. If you do buy the shoes, the kids will be back the next day for jackets, and then hats, etc.
Trouble with the guest worker idea is after their "temporary" time expires, most
guest workers don't return to their country. They stay here and increase the illegal
population, and the plunder continues and grows bigger.
Glad I watch lou Dobbs on CNN or I'd be snowed on this issue as well as the ports, electronic voting machines and international outsourcing (I call illegal immigration "Domestic outsourcing").