Thread: If feds follow law, immigration problem will take care of it

If feds follow law, immigration problem will take care of itself
July 18, 3:32 PM
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Democrats controlling Washington don’t seem to know it, but they have figured out a comprehensive immigration reform plan.

It will not need much new legislation, it does not require amnesty and it protects Americans.

A major piece of the plan is found in the healthcare debate. Realizing America cannot afford the pie-in-the-sky dream the Obama administration requested, Democrats looked to cut corners.

The first people excluded from healthcare-for-all were illegal aliens, which sets the House at odds with the National Council of La Raza. It is smart economics and sends a positive message to America.

Patriotic politicians should move this message to the immigration debate as Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) prepares to introduce legislation. The senator supposedly wants to:

• Use a biometric-based employer verification system.
• Registering all illegal aliens inside the country upon enactment of the new law and provide amnesty.
• Make reunification of families "a cornerstone value of our immigration system."
• Encourage immigration of the "world's best and brightest individuals" to the United States.
• Change the current flow of unskilled illegal workers into a more manageable flow of legal ones who can be absorbed by the economy.
All of these, except the amnesty in the second point are doable. The criminals who broke U.S. laws to enter this country must be forced to their homeland where they can apply for visa if they so desire—no short cuts. When you enter a restaurant and order a meal, you return it if the meal you are given is not what you ordered. Why should America’s immigration solution have a lesser standard?

Or as readers to this column put it, “I've lived and worked overseas and see no way that we can fairly give any amnesty to illegal aliens without telling would-be legal immigrants that they needn't follow our immigration laws and are in fact suckers if they do.â€

Eliminating illegal immigration will create a tax burden on all Americans, which may be why so many Republicans support amnesty programs and open borders.

Most conservatives do not support amnesty and open borders.

Furthermore, I find it extremely difficult to believe that eliminating illegal immigration will increase our tax burden. Most logical and credible cost analysis reports have shown that removing illegals from our population will reduce our tax burden, not increase it.

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