Sunday, June 03, 2007

An Answer To Mccain's Comprehensive Amnesty Bill

I was just watching a newscast that said Manchurian Candidate Senator John Mccain had a town hall meeting in Le Mars, Iowa on Saturday. It sounds like it got pretty heated on the subject of immigration and the Comprehensive Amnesty Bill that Senator Mccain helped craft.
It mentions that he went back and forth with one gentlemen and it got heated with Mccain finally saying that if someone is a critic of his bill then they should step up with a proposal of their own. He states quite categorically that the status quo in not acceptable. Well fine Senator Mccain, but the Amnesty Bill you are trying to push down the American people's throat's is not workable either.
He says that the 1986 Immigration Amnesty Bill which was passed with support of Ronnie "Raygun" Reagan was the bill that legalized illegals without consequences and caused the influx of 12million more illegals, and that his bill will correct the problem.
Now I don't like Mccain, bill or no bill, I find him overbearing and he too often leans on the fact that he was a hero, I mean prisoner in Vietnam. I am still trying to figure out how you can be captured and say bad things about your country,(so Senator, does that mean torture does work), and just because you come back alive it somehow makes you a hero.
Personally, I think they brainwashed him and that is why he is the Manchurian Candidate in this election cycle with his evil overlords hoping he will gain office so they can control the United States government.
Senator Mccain has one new convert as Bill O'Reilly said the other night he thinks this bill is the best bill that can be passed at this time in our country. I completely disagree, because until something drastic is done to stop illegals from coming to this country we will be passing another comprehensive bill to "fix" the problem in 20 more years.
I have always believed it is not the fault of the illegals for coming here to work, it is the businesses who hire them and pretend that they do not know the documents they use are fraudulent who are to blame for all of this mess.
Just the other day we saw how easy it was for the TB traveler to get into this country, so we know Homeland Security is doing a "fine" job of keeping terrorists out. Right!
So they need to pass three separate bills otherwise the politicians will find that someone did not dot an i or cross a t and there will be millions more illegals crossing our unprotected borders after the Amnesty Bill passes.
The first bill would have mandatory punishments for any employer who employs an illegal. Now the current bill has "knowingly" in the wording as a precursor to any sort of employer sanction, mine would not. If you employ an illegal immigrant you will receive a $15,000 fine and spend 10 days in jail, a second offense would cost you $50,000 and 1 year in prison, with no discretion to plead to a lesser charge would be part of the bill as well. As a bonus any illegal who testifies against his or her employer would receive a green card as a gesture of our appreciation in adjudicating these crimes.
After all there will be no problems telling an illegal from a legal worker as part of the current Mccain Amnesty Bill there will be "tamper proof i.d.'s", so we will borrow that idea for our bill. This bill if enforced will stop a bunch of illegals from crossing the border as there will be fewer jobs waiting for them.
The second bill would provide for a border fence and would be manned with guards every 50 yards and would have to be fully funded and completed before the third bill kicks in.
The third bill would allow for a path to citizenship as there would be fewer illegals here with the employer's not hiring them, so a lot would have already gone home. Those that have committed felonies, would be picked up and deported, the other's particularly with children and families would be allowed to start toward a path to citizenship, but with a non-resident visa status first, until all of the people who applied to come here legally are moved through the system. Also they would be able to stay through a guest worker program for now.
I think this could be a set of bills that would set this country toward a workable plan. Maybe someone has something better, but our politicians in Washington do not have our best interests at heart, they are only in it for the bonus voters they hope to bring into their parties.
My earlier rant had me careening toward Buchanansim, and James Eaves-Johnson called me on it,and it set me to thinking. I managed people for over a year that are in the "illegal" category and they became good friends. They were the hardest working and nicest people I had working for me. Now they were already working there when I arrived, so someone in the company had verified their documents, but from getting to know them I came to the obvious conclusion that they were not supposed to be here. Now I believe there should be a path for them to stay, as they are the kind of people who do make a our country a better place. There should not be instant citizenship, but there should be a clear path, from working here as a guest worker to becoming citizens in the future if they choose to do so. I guess mine is an amnesty bill too, but if all items are done in the right order we will not be fixing immigration again in 20 years.
Anyway I have flipped and flopped big time on this emotional issue, because I would like my friends and others like them to able to stay and become Good Americans, just like our immigrant ancestors did.

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