Immigration Reform

Since immigration reform is in the wind once again, I will share my proposal to solve our border problems. If you want to come to the US to work, you go to a US office in your town or at the border. You pay a fee for the processing services you receive. This fee should be at least $1200. You get your fingerprints taken, a photo taken and a DNA sample taken. Then a card is made with a smart chip in it to record your card usage and a GPS tracker is in the chip as well. You can then enter the US and anytime you want a job you show this card and you can work. If you wish to go home you can leave the US anytime. You can come back anytime during the time the card is valid. The card should terminate after a period of time and the smart chip can make sure the card is invalid. For a small fee the card can be renewed and the alien can remain in the country. If the alien is convicted of a crime the card database is notified and the card is invalidated electronically through the smart chip. And that my friends is how you solve a complex problem.

If you an alien is already in the United States, follow the same procedure and go to a US office to get your card.

This program has nothing to do with citizenship. If a person wishes to become a US citizen there is already a procedure for that. 

The Border

Here is the solution to the border "problem". First of all, as President Reagan said "Tear down that wall!" Walls are anathema to a free people. Second, stop the silliness at the border crossing. It does no real good. It is a waste of money. Here is the solution. Instead of all the delay at the border have two basic entry lines: Those who are legal and those who need papers to be legal. Those who are legal face a brief or random check, those who need to be legal go to an office and either get tourist papers or work papers. Each of these documents have a fee. For example charge $1200 for an annual work permit. By doing this, we get rid of all undocumented workers. We kill the coyote business and we treat migrant labor with dignity.

You must realize that the only function the fence has today is to keep Mexicans in the United States not out. If you haven't noticed, there is no problem finding illegal aliens in the United States. All you have to do is go to a Home Depot in the morning and you will see plenty of illegals willing and ready to work. Why can't we face facts and just give them a work permit? Most of them have no wish to become US citizens. Most of them like their homeland and plan on returning as soon as the money is made. But because of the fence, they can't go home.