Posted by
Arnie on Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:13:08 PM
If president Bush, Kennedy, McCain, Lott, Feinstein and the others are so adamant about the comprehensive immigration bill as being the fix for a bad system that was not enforced, and that the border enforcement part of the bill must be completed before any of the other provisions, then they should not mind splitting the bill into two parts.
First part is the border enforcement with the 700 miles of a double fence with all the bells and whistles, additional border guards being allowed to do their jobs, and mandatory employer tools to use to identify who is legal and who is not, with heavy fines for hiring illegal aliens. The Basic Pilot program has too many flaws as a useful employee identification verification system, so scrap that thing and, Like Newt suggested out source the database to private industry and let them design the thing. It's just a number associated with a name, address, sex, date of birth, eye color etc. And, as required by already existing laws of the IRS, each and every business already has an employer identification number.
When that is finished and the reports are made public, then they can consider the second part creating some kind of temporary worker program.
While the 700 miles of fences are being installed along with the technology, and as the border guards are hired, trained and working, create a way to keep the public up to date with the progress being made. We have a right to see the results of their efforts and the expenditures of our tax dollars being used according to plans. The public should also know of each and every employer that is and has been caught not obeying the laws. This may take a number of years to accomplish, but we would begin seeing the results of employer enforcement locally as we witness a change on the job sites as to who we see working. More of those jobs would naturally go to Americans.
When the jobs are not available for any illegal aliens, it just makes sense that they will stop coming. The fence is not the end all, but a combination of making it much harder to cross illegally along with drying up the availability of work should drastically reduce the illegal population. Then the "amnesty" part of the bill will also be more manageable.
So, if they are so adamant about the worthiness of the border protection part of the bill along with the employer enforcement part, and that none of the additional parts would go into effect until the first part is completed, then why the heck should it be objectionable to them to split the dag gone bill into two parts, passing only the first part now, and waiting to even introduce the second part until all of those "triggers" are completed.
Why is that so objectionable? Pray tell, why?
And while I'm on this subject, change the laws that makes any person born within our borders automatically a citizen. That should be part of the first part, along with making English the official language of America, and stop requiring states and federal agencies to translate everything into any language requested.