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Let’s start with the question of securing the border so that nobody could cross illegally. Impossible, end of story. Now lets move on with making every illegal alien a felon. Hundreds if not thousands of aliens in the United States are subject to prosecution as felons. That means simply if convicted they are subject to serve more than one year in prison. The GREAT majority of these “felons” are allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges for one simple reason. Money.

Congress is simply using this flash point like the Republicans used gay marriage in the last presidential election. Votes. They want votes. Fear votes. Remember when Bush signed a law into place not to long ago that called for 1000 new border patrolmen to be hired but only 200 were actually hired? Same thing. Money.

What this proposal WOULD do is to send the most abused people in the country deeper underground and that would benefit the human traffickers. THOSE guys ARE felons but most of them are rarely convicted as felons when caught. You tell an uneducated, non English speaker who is a stranger in a new environment that he will go to jail for one year and that he won’t be able to send money home to his family who is starving if he talks to a policeman and you know what you have? A slave. Tell a female that and you have a sex slave. If you don’t believe that slavery exists in the United States today you, my friend, are a fool. The American dream does not include living in fear.

Now lets talk briefly about a guest worker program. It’s difficult. The resources and manpower simply do not exist to do it. We can’t get several thousand New Orleans residents into proper housing or their kids back to proper school and we’re going to pseudo legalize millions of people who have made it a habit not to talk to the government?

Amnesty? Never going to happen. We did it once. Legalized hundreds of thousands of field
workers, day laborers, and other “shadow people” and what did they do? The ungrateful people came out of the shadows, shoved their legality in our faces and PROGRESSED! They became business owners and rose up into the main stream. It’s THEIR fault all these other illegals came in to take their old jobs and the reason we’re in this mess now.

You see, produce companies, construction companies, and hotel chains don’t want another amnesty because they lose too many employees as a result. Illegals are manageable, easily intimidated, and exploited. Give them green cards, give them ACTUAL rights and lawyers get involved and they just don’t want to think about that. Look at how Walmart treats their LEGAL work force if you need to get a sense of how illegals are treated.

The Bottom line? Maybe the employers should be responsible for legalizing their employees. That’s a novel thought. Let those who are benefiting from the labor pool of illegal aliens bare some of cost.

My personal opinion: Amnesty? Yes. Education of children of illegals? Absolutely. Police as Immigration? No. But there should be a few who can determine if the guy just arrested for a violent crime is in the U.S. illegally. Citizenship to any child born in the U.S. regardless of status of the mother? Absolutely, as the law stands now.

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Post by Dan Lilly
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