By Martin C Boire
www.TruthForUs.Com
March 18, 2004
Our National Family will lose our culture, or morals, and our security if illegal immigration across the US-Mexican Border is not stopped.
To date, all have done little, because each is afraid of offending the other and because the political parties see illegals as either votes or cheap low-end labor.[1]
To date, neither political party has focused on the long term cultural cost, security cost, and risk to respect for our laws and borders.
This poignantly dishonors the many American soldiers who have died over the centuries to establish and protect our borders, and who lie buried here and abroad. When our politicians allow people to walk all over our borders, it spits in the face of those our nation presently ask to risk their lives defending our nation.
Yet if the political will exists, protecting America by stopping the mass migration across our border is very simple:
The US government should simply enact a law providing a reward to any American reporting a business or person who employs an illegal alien. The free market system would take care of the rest. Sound harsh?
Well, the US Government already gives a percentage to Americans for reporting tax fraud. Is the penetration of our boards by non-citizens more or less serious? Federal, state, and local governments also pay rewards to citizens anonymously reporting crimes.
And fines already exist for hiring illegal aliens, and forms proving non-illegality of each employee are already required to be maintain by employers. The problem is discovering who is hiring them (and thus creating the attraction for them to come here) because many are paid of the books.
The reward could simply be a percentage of the fine and civil penalty recovered, paid to anyone reporting an employer or person who employs an illegal alien. Or it could be a flat-rate payment, to be recouped by the government once the fine is levied. In the end $500 or $1,000 a head would probably be cheaper than police costs.
If there is concern that it would too large a number of cases for the government to handle, I would first point out that that admits the extent and danger of the problem we are confronting, and second that it can be easily solved by establish by law an alternative forum to process them. If there is concern that there are not enough government lawyers to process the cases, designate a fixed a percent of the fine for private lawyers to prosecute and defend.
The demand for illegal workers among employers would disappear overnight, because the economic risk to the business or person illegally employing them would exceed the anticipated gain.
The attraction among some of the people South of the border to come illegally to the US for jobs would disappear overnight because the jobs would dry up overnight.
Not finding work, the illegals already would start to filter back home, turn to crime or go underground until friends or relatives here, got tired of supporting them and they returned home. This could be prevented by also making it a rime, and providing stiff fines, for harboring, housing, or aid and abetting an illegal alien.
Then would come the moment of truth.
If Americans wanted the jobs being performed by illegals, the unemployment rate would drop because they would take those jobs. If the jobs were beneath the desire of unemployed Americans, the jobs would remain unfilled. And if there was a demand for the goods or services created by those unfilled positions, then the market would demand that they be filled.
A law could then provide that people living legally in their countries South of our border who wanted to come work legally within the borders of America, must apply in their own country for a temporary work permit, and thus be properly registered for admission into the US and monitoring after entry. To avoid an abusive stampede, an initial group permanently hold all of the available positions, there should be a quota system, or a time limit on each worker to allow others to come work as well.
The law should provide that marrying or having a child here will not convert them to US citizens. This will keep it an honest work program, not a migration program. Permanent green cards should not be granted.
Under this arrangement, they could come here as proper persons.
We would be protected.
They would be protected.
They would earn more and be abused less.
Congress’ enacting a law like this would put all sides of this argument to the test, including the jobs and economics are argument advanced by the Mexican and other governments South of our border.
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[1] It is commonly believed that the Democratic Party likes the votes and doesn’t want to alienate a large slice of their US voting block which has relatives and friends South of the border. And, with motor-voter laws, and drivers licenses being issued to illegals, they perceive it as an avenue to assist their party strength.
It is commonly believed the Republican Party is busy trying to look compassionate, attract legal Hispanic voters, and also tend to go along with business which see the Illegals as a cheap source of low-end labor (without much thought to the long term cost).
Neither is acting in the interest of our National Family.
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