Thread: Libertarian Party: Immigration Law Should Reflect Our Dynamic Labor Market

Quote from article below: “For those workers already in the United States illegally, we can avoid "amnesty" and still offer a pathway out of the underground economy. Newly legalized workers can be assessed fines and back taxes and serve probation befitting the misdemeanor they've committed. They can be required to take their place at the back of the line should they eventually apply for permanent residency.”

Are these people kidding us or are they just so damn determined not be “conservatives”that they run back and forth between good economic policies to bad liberal social policies? They obviously have learned nothing from 1986 amnesty and the years since then. 1986 was supposed to be a ONE TIME ONLY AMNESTY. IT ALSO PROMISED STRICT PRECONDITIONS AND STRICT CONTROLLS. None of this happened of course. They ignore the disastrous welfare cost from massive fraud and gaming the system by illegal aliens; it will only become worse if they are given legal status.

For God sake about one million foreigners are granted permanent legal residency very year (that does not include various “guest workers”). How many does it take to satisfy the maybe-someday labor requirements?

Instead of seeking to flood this country with hoards of foreigners to supply workers for a maybe-some day labor shortage, why do they not fight to reform a disastrous welfare system that encourages Americans not to work? And why do they not fight for laws requiring healthy people on welfare to work? You would think the first priority of a true libertarian would be on those critical issues.

Part of the reason it has been so hard to stop the drive for amnesty is because libertarians who should be fighting with us are working at cross purposes to us with their delusions about concocting a “good amnesty” a.k.a. “legal status.”