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Here is a common sense approach to the immigration problem!!!

Exclusive: A Rising Star Offers His Own Immigration Plan

Leading House Conservative Mike Pence offers a "no amnesty" solution in an effort to get House Republicans on board

Posted Tuesday, May. 23, 2006
With the Senate headed toward a final vote on an immigration bill this week, a leader of House conservatives is asking his colleagues to support a free-market plan aimed at bridging the gulf between the versions in the two chambers. The proposal by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), provided to TIME ahead of an unveiling speech at the Heritage Foundation, is arguably less compassionate than the version being debated in the Senate and supported in principle by President George W. Bush. But it looks to be more palatable to House Republicans, many of whom have opposed creating a guest worker program before new border crackdowns have been given a chance to work.

Pence, a rising star in the House, is suggesting a temporary worker program based on a data base run by private industry. And unlike the leading plan in the Senate and the blueprint sketched by Bush, his “Border Integrity and Immigration Reform Act” would require all applicants to leave the country first. Pence tweaks a phrase from Bush’s address to the nation by calling the compromise “a REAL rational middle ground.” Even though Bush has said his preferred solution “ain’t amnesty,” Pence appeals to hard-liners by calling the compromise a “no-amnesty solution.”

“The solution is to set up a system that will encourage illegal aliens to self-deport and come back legally as guest workers,” Pence, the grandson of an Irish immigrant, says in prepared remarks. “The visa will be issued only outside of the United States. Outside of the United States. That is a key point because it is the provision that will require the twelve million illegal aliens to leave. Now, some of you are thinking to yourselves that 12 million people aren’t going to pack up and leave just to get a visa to come back legally. But, I believe most will.”

The leading Senate plan would allow workers who have been in the country five years to remain as guest workers, on the theory that they have deep ties to their community. Those in the United States two to five years would have to go to a border crossing to apply, and those here less than two years would have to return to their home countries to be considered. Bush has not endorsed particulars, but said in his address to the nation that it makes sense to differentiate between “an illegal immigrant who crossed the border recently, and someone who has worked here for many years, and has a home, a family, and an otherwise clean record.”

Pence, a lawyer and former radio and television host, is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives, but the group did not offer the plan because it’s split on how to handle immigration overhaul. Pence’s official biography calls him “a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”

His plan includes all the security measures of the bill that has already passed the House, and adds a provision for guest worker visas would be good for two years. A limited renewal would be available if the worker studied English and passed an English proficiency class. Federal law already has visa categories A through V. “The visas will be referred to as ‘W Visas,’ ” Pence say in his remarks. “No kidding. I think it is obvious whose support we are trying to garner here.”

Pence’s measure would create private worker placement agencies called “Ellis Island Centers,” licensed by the federal government to match approved guest workers with jobs that cannot be filled by Americans – a variation on an idea offered by Bush back in January 2004. “U.S. employers will engage the private agencies and request guest workers,” Pence says. “In a matter of days, the private agencies will match guest workers with jobs, perform a health screening, fingerprint them and provide the appropriate information to the FBI and Homeland Security so that a background check can be performed, and provide the guest worker with a visa granted by the State Department.”

Bush said Monday in Chicago that he understands the emotions about immigration, and that it is “a tough issue for members to vote on.” He promised that if he disagrees with someone, he is “not going to debase them in the public arena.” The question is how hard he will lean on them in private. And whether an illegal worker will leave the shadows, if they also have to leave the country.

But, considering how corrupt our USCIS evidentally is, what do you
think would happen at "Private Employment Centers" located outside
the country?! Of the USCIS, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA has said,
"They're just giving visas away over there."

Neal Boortz has stated a similiar plan in his radio program except Boortz would have all salary payments to the immigrant worker made through the employment agency. The employer would make payments to the employment agency. When the work visa expires the salary stops. With no salary the immigrant goes home. This plan is probably too simple for the screwed up minds of most senators.

Unfortunately, Sailor, probably you are right!

And, if it did work and solved the problem, then they probably would
change it, and then declare that "the system was broken". Have you
noticed how many "broken systems" we now seem to have -- like border
security and FEMA? Funny how they seemed to work quite well at one
time!