Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts

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.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

The Fraud of Immigration Reform

The President gave a speech yesterday concerning immigration and the need to pass some type of comprehensive legislation to deal with the issue of illegals and what we can do to slow the numbers arriving each day.
This was once important to President Bush, but members of his own party saw his approach as advocating amnesty. I know that everyone says they do not want amnesty, but all of the bills deal with the rights of the illegals over the rights of american workers. Until we stop the illegals from coming across the border first, there can be no legislation that will do anything other than make more rules that the illegals will ignore. They know that many politicians are ready right now to make them full citizens as they vie for their future votes.
We really need to get a grip on our borders and not do anything to assist the government of Mexico to export its’ people to the United States, so they can work and send home Billions to Mexico. Mexico is very disingenuous on this matter as they have armed troops on their own souther border and shoot and kill illegals trying to cross their borders from central and south america. So to let the Mexicans control this debate is ludicrous and we need to wake up and get something serious done before Aztlan becomes a reality. For those who may not know it Aztlan is supposedly the area of the southwest which rightfully belongs to the Mexicans as this article from wikipedia explains:
Due to the association of Aztlán with growing Mexican nationalism among Mexicans in the United States, and its northern location, the name Aztlán was taken up by some revolutionary Chicano movement activists of the 1960s and 1970s to refer to the Southwestern United States that Mexico lost or sold to the United States that they suggested rightfully belonged to Mexico, ignoring the treaty, the sale and the Gadsden Purchase. Aztlán appears in the title of the 1968 manifesto issued by the radical Chicano youth movement that called for the liberation of that land from colonial occupation by the United States, even though Mexico "liberated" the same land from the Spaniards only 27 years before (which Spaniards liberated from native American Indians. The Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, as well as the names of several organizations, such as MEChA, (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán"), an organization that gained notoriety for making claims against the United States' occupation of Aztlan on behalf of Mexico. Many in the Chicano Movement attribute poet Alurista for popularizing the term Aztlán in a poem presented during the Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in Denver, Colorado, March 1969
Therefore with this type of background you can see why many of the illegals believe they have a right to break our laws. My biggest complaint is not with the people who come here illegally to find work and take care of their families. They are just doing what it takes to survive. The fault is entirely on the politicians in this country and in Mexico, who do not take a strong stand and stop all illegal immigration. They and well as companies small and large that hire illegals with a wink and a nod are the true culprits. It is also ridiculous to allow people who are born here, even though illegal to receive full citizenship which then allows their parents to stay, because they are babies. This may have been important in the beginning of this country to make it grow, but now is just one more in a whole series of loopholes to remain here illegally. We must shut the loopholes and take this matter seriously before we cannot stop the inevitable minimization of our own rights to cater to the illegals who grow in numbers and boldness everyday.
We will see another May 1st walkout in many areas of the country as the illegals show just how integral they are to the running of many of our industries from agriculture to restaurants to factories. I personally have seen just how much these illegals have contributed to keeping restaurants running. They have increased their numbers exponentially in just the last five years. I managed a restaurant in 2001-2004 and there was some illegals , but went back to managing a restaurant in 2006 until last month and they are now quickly becoming the main labor force, even in a or should I say primarily in chinese restaurants. They come in and know people already working and may not have a social security card and they come back a few days later and they have one. The industry looks the other way and does so by saying “they showed me a social security card and proper i.d. and I am not a law enforcement officer, so how can I know they are not legal>” This is where the government needs to get tougher and tell the employers, you may not be law enforcement officers, but you better be real sure, because we shall prosecute you and not just fine you, but jail time will be you lot as well. The knowledge of going to jail would have a bigger impact than facing paying a fine as they see that as just the cost of doing business with cheap labor.
Let’s wake up America, President Bush nor the Democrats in Congress looking our for our best interests. Bush has always been an amnesty now kind of guy, and the Democrats see Illegals as their next base of support if they make amnesty possible as quickly as possible. Watch the marches and walkouts May 1st and be aware of the coming tide that will sweep this country away from us if we do not act and make our politcians know how we feel. We shall write more on this in the coming weeks.
Take Care and Have a Great Weekend! Tome el Cuidado y Tenga UN Gran Fin de semana!