Thread: IMMIGRATION REFORMS: NEEDED AGENDA FOR CONGRESS IN 2011

IMMIGRATION REFORMS: NEEDED AGENDA FOR CONGRESS IN 2011

By Frosty Wooldridge
January 20, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

For 30 years, our presidents and Congresses failed to enforce our immigration laws. Today, with 20 million illegal aliens living and working within the USA, the consequences grow worse by the day. We face budget shortfalls, 15 million unemployed Americans, educational chaos and bursting prisons.

Dan Stein, president of FAIR set forth a list of reforms that need to be addressed in this year’s Congress.

Stein gave these points:

To help members of the 112th Congress prioritize the steps needed to reinstate meaningful immigration enforcement, FAIR has just released its Immigration Reform Agenda for the 112th Congress. This document provides new lawmakers with a brief summary of action taken during the previous Congress and a roadmap for moving forward with immigration reform measures. Specific suggestions for legislation include the following:

• Permanently authorize E-Verify and provide adequate funding to guarantee the future of the program;

• Make E-Verify mandatory for all existing and new hires;

• Complete the U.S./Mexico border fence as mandated by the Secure Fence Act of 2006.

• Reinstate or codify the “no-matchâ€

[quote="AirborneSapper7"]“Technology should complement, not replace a physical barrier on our southern border. For the $1 billion sunk into the failed virtual fence, the U.S. could have, and should have continued construction on a double layer fence to add further obstacles for drug traffickers, illegal aliens, and terrorists wanting to enter the country.â€

I personally side with Doctor Evil on this issue.... Lazers are the solution to our problem... and lazers on sharks heads are just cool.

So yah, lazer fence it is then... combine basic technology and new technology.

I still feel the use of troops and lots of them on the border is the best move. Any virtual or hi tech fence invites people to try to beat the system, defeat technology. Nothing beats troops who are trained in tracking, stealth and enforcement walking the border. They have the reason to do a good job since its their homeland and their families they are protecting. If it means using troops to assist ICE and Local Law Enfocement to do extensiive sweeps in known illegal neighborhoods then I say use them. Whatever it takes. The military also has the means to transport large numbers of people. Let them handle mass deportations to the border. They are on the payroll already, may as use the troops and the technology they bring with them. That includes use of drones.