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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
How many democrats want it. 2 or 3? Besides, who cares what they want. Whats a better idea?
Mine is to set up kiosks and roadside tents to let any illegal immigrant currently undocumented to get legal documents for a pre-determined period of time. (1yr?) After which time those who dont get them are presumed to be willfully acting illegally and face deportation procedures.
How do you find out who has a legal residency or not? Beats the hell out of me. What are some other ideas?
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This is my idea of a reasonable way to start:
1. Secure the borders. We have been talking about this for decades now it is time to do this. Build a fence and put military personal on it. You could easily make it that every new military recruit had to stand guard on the border for 3-6 months as part of their enlistment or you could create an MOS that was a border guard.
2. Go after those people who knowingly hire illegals. Many companies have accidentally hired an illegal or two and not known it. They shouldn't be the targets. The targets should be places that hire them by the truckload and pay them in cash. If you start to cut the number of jobs these people can get, they will have less desire to come here.
3. Give the police the authority to enforce the existing laws. We don't need a bunch of new laws, there are plenty on the books already. Give every cop in the country the ability to detain someone who is illegal. What I mean by this is if a cop pulls someone over for a traffic stop or goes to their house on a call and this person has no ID and the cop thinks they are illegal, they should be allowed to detain them determine if they are illegal. If they are, then they should be deported. Right now in most places the cops can do nothing about people they know are illegal.
4. We have to do something about those who are already here. It is not reasonable to think that we can round up somewhere between 20-35 million people and send them back to where they came. We just don't have the manpower or money to do that. But we can offer them a deal. Allow them to come forward and we can come to some kind of an agreement. If they don't have a criminal record and they provide us with a plan of how they wish to become a citizen and contribute to our society then I think we should lay out a path for them to make that happen. If they have a criminal record or don't have a clear cut idea of what they can do for us, we kick them out. Those who are good people just trying to better their lives will come forward and it can help us weed out the less desirable.
5. We have to do something about Mexico. the reason so many people are crossing the borders is because that country is in a downward spiral of violence, corruption and poverty. If we can help to stabilize Mexico and make it a more desirable place to live we will cut down on the number of people who are trying to sneak into the country from there.
Just a few thoughts.