Reply #55: Stopping illegal immigration is easy, [View All]

But like many easy things in this country, it means taking on corporations, and God knows, our two party, same corporate master system of government isn't going to do that.

But here goes,

First of all, any business, corporation, company or individual found employing an illegal immigrant automatically gets hit with a ten million dollar fine, per immigrant found. Thus, when Tyson Chicken gets busted for employing twenty illegal immigrants, they get hit with a 200 million dollar fine. No appeal, no wiggle room, no mercy.

Second, no company, corporation or business can discriminate in the wages it pays, ie they cannot pay an American citizen more for their labor and less to an alien laborer doing the same job. Again, if a company is found doing this, nice hefty fine.

Third, three strikes and you're out rule, if a corporation or business is found breaking these laws three times, they are out of business, license is yanked, business is dissolved. No exceptions, don't care if it's Mom's Cafe or IBM, they're outta there.

Fourth, since we do need immigrant labor, especially in agriculture and on a seasonal basis, make it easier for immigrants to obtain the needed papers to come up here and work for X amount of time. If they overstay their time limit, they do not get to come back and they pay a fine.

Fifth, make the process of becoming a citizen much more streamlined. We are a country of immigrants, and it has and is how we function the best. Right now, part of our problem with SS and other such like programs is that the birth rate for citizens is below subsistence level. This shortfall needs to be made up by immigration. Rather than taking a decade or more, streamline this down to somewhere between two and four years, with language classes and other such transition help both mandatory and free.

A couple of other things. Repeal NAFTA. Just like NAFTA destroyed our manufacturing base, it also destroyed the agriculture industry in Mexico. Get rid of it and there will be less need for Mexicans to come to the states to make a living. Also, legalize drugs, all of them. This will get rid of the monetary support propping up the drug wars and warlords south of the border, and stabilize matters both here and in Mexico.

I think that if you followed this program, illegal immigration would drop tremendously.

Oh, and for the environment's sake, not to mention for the sake of our country, tear down that fence on the border.