Amnesty; are you crazy!
Illegal immigration is an issue for our country and has been a topic for discussion in the republican debates on occasion. Mentioning the word amnesty for illegals sends some people into a panic, but what would those people suggest be done? A popular answer is deporting them and Bill O’Riley would probably have them throw them in jail for ten years, which is his answer for most crimes. Neither of these ideas are viable solutions for one specific reason; money! How and who will pay for these actions and government would have to be expanded to carry out the process to do this; these issues, money and big government are NOT POPULAR. To prevent myself from going into the trick bag of complaining without a solution I must propose some solutions.
I am really not opposed to amnesty; however, President Regan granted Amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants in the 80s and we now have over 10 million estimated illegal immigrants in country, so that has been proven not to work. We could make the immigration process easier to allow legal immigration as it was in the Naturalization act of 1790, which in order to address one's "good moral character," the law required two years of residence in the United States and one year in the state of residence, prior to applying for citizenship. When those requirements were met, an immigrant could file a Petition for Naturalization with "any common law court of record" having jurisdiction over his residence asking to be naturalized. Once convinced of the applicant’s good moral character, the court would administer an oath of allegiance to support the Constitution of the United States. The clerk of court was to make a record of these proceedings, and "thereupon such person shall be considered as a citizen of the United States." The Act also establishes the United States citizenship of children of citizens, born abroad, without the need for naturalization, "the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens". Bummer, this did not include slaves or descendants of women not born in the USA, but father’s descendants only.
The immigration law today consists of 4 title sections with a total of 17 chapters and roughly 187 acts loaded with rules and regulations written by lawyers. To view the entire statute visit this website: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem This is the poster child for why we need to simplify not just this law, but many laws, so that average people can understand them; in addition, all laws must be taught in schools. With that being said, simplified immigration laws could be a solution.
The following ideas are long shots.
We round up all the illegals and shoot them. That would punish them and rid us of them; now, there might be some fallout because it is inhumane and it didn’t go so well with Hitler when he tried that, but they would be gone.
We could build the great wall of America. China built a 1300 mile wall to keep invaders out, we certainly could build a wall of that magnitude and put many people to work doing it; heck, we could probably capture enough illegals and force them to build it on work release from prison. We may need the wall to keep people in at the rate our economy is sliding.
We invade and take over all the countries down to the Panama Canal…let's see people try and swim that! Union of States American (USA) Poof, no more illegals!
Whatever plan is hatched, this problem has been brewing for over 30 years and it will take a long time to sort this out. This country was built on the principle of immigration and has relied on it to prosper. Why do many despise someone that is just trying to find a better life?
