Not So Liberal Solution to Illegal Immigration
Joshua Morgan
Issue date: 1/24/10 Section: News and Opinion
In 2007 Congress proposed a bill that would have granted amnesty to a majority of illegal aliens in the country but also increased enforcement, again. Have you noticed a trend concerning the enforcement of immigration? The very people we elected to represent us were all for this bill and yet the majority of Americans were against this legislation and it was killed. In 2007 immigration approved a little over one million applicants for permanent residence.
What is the Obama administration prepared to do? White House aides haven't said much but what they did reveal was rather disturbing. President Obama plans to back a "solution" that would allow for 12 million illegal immigrants to receive citizenship or legal-worker status. Essentially this is a "road plan" which would operate over several years with the inclusion of expanded border enforcement! Is it Obama's big heart that would lead him to such a conclusion or is it something else?
According to a UCLA study done on the amnesty granted to three million back in 1986, Obama's plan would create a positive impact on the U.S. economy and its GDP. The study projects an increase of $1.5 trillion to the U.S. GDP if the 12 million were granted amnesty over a period of time. In 1986 the regions in which a number of illegals became legal witnessed an increase in tax revenues and economic boosts. The UCLA claims the immigrants will seek higher education and pay taxes due to the fact that they no longer have to watch out for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents.
Whether this claim rings true or not, our principles as a nation must determine our actions. More than a dozen million people are here illegally; making it even more difficult for those in line to obtain their own residency. Did I mention illegal? Our stance on the issue should be the same as not negotiating with terrorists. Its a simple of matter of opening the floodgates. This is exactly what has been affecting our immigration problems in the first place. We have granted too many aliens amnesty, and more want the same. They don't want to wait in line. America isn't free, ladies and gentlemen. This is the land of self-made men and women! Or so I thought until a recent increase of large government hand outs.
Our government needs to develop a road plan that increases legal documentation enforcement for employers, and deports illegal immigrants by the truck load. We need to redirect funds and man power from this useless drug war and put them into border patrol and local law enforcement. What is the status of this border fence? I'm sure many liberals disagree with the structure but the need to protect our leaky border is paramount in the fight against global terrorism. The Transcontinental Railroad was built in less time than it is taking for the US-Mexican border fence.
The terms may be harsh but the lack of vision by Congress over the better half of the past century has allowed for a vast influx of illegal aliens that consume our tax dollars and jobs that true, legal Americans deserve. Write your congressman and stress to them the damage these illegals are doing to our great nation that is the United States of America.
What is the Obama administration prepared to do? White House aides haven't said much but what they did reveal was rather disturbing. President Obama plans to back a "solution" that would allow for 12 million illegal immigrants to receive citizenship or legal-worker status. Essentially this is a "road plan" which would operate over several years with the inclusion of expanded border enforcement! Is it Obama's big heart that would lead him to such a conclusion or is it something else?
According to a UCLA study done on the amnesty granted to three million back in 1986, Obama's plan would create a positive impact on the U.S. economy and its GDP. The study projects an increase of $1.5 trillion to the U.S. GDP if the 12 million were granted amnesty over a period of time. In 1986 the regions in which a number of illegals became legal witnessed an increase in tax revenues and economic boosts. The UCLA claims the immigrants will seek higher education and pay taxes due to the fact that they no longer have to watch out for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents.
Whether this claim rings true or not, our principles as a nation must determine our actions. More than a dozen million people are here illegally; making it even more difficult for those in line to obtain their own residency. Did I mention illegal? Our stance on the issue should be the same as not negotiating with terrorists. Its a simple of matter of opening the floodgates. This is exactly what has been affecting our immigration problems in the first place. We have granted too many aliens amnesty, and more want the same. They don't want to wait in line. America isn't free, ladies and gentlemen. This is the land of self-made men and women! Or so I thought until a recent increase of large government hand outs.
Our government needs to develop a road plan that increases legal documentation enforcement for employers, and deports illegal immigrants by the truck load. We need to redirect funds and man power from this useless drug war and put them into border patrol and local law enforcement. What is the status of this border fence? I'm sure many liberals disagree with the structure but the need to protect our leaky border is paramount in the fight against global terrorism. The Transcontinental Railroad was built in less time than it is taking for the US-Mexican border fence.
The terms may be harsh but the lack of vision by Congress over the better half of the past century has allowed for a vast influx of illegal aliens that consume our tax dollars and jobs that true, legal Americans deserve. Write your congressman and stress to them the damage these illegals are doing to our great nation that is the United States of America.
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Brittanicus
posted 1/24/10 @ 6:32 PM AST
Our country is--collapsing from the inside-out--because our legislators are completely oblivious to the interest of citizens and legal residents. California the SANCTUARY STATE, with Arizona, Texas and all border States are beginning to sink in a financial quagmire, because of the occupation and the pandering of Liberal-Democratic-Extremists, whose main believe is tax and spend. (Continued…)
writing essays
posted 1/27/10 @ 2:06 AM AST
It's not liberal at all.
morganism
Morgan Sullivan
posted 1/29/10 @ 12:08 AM AST
Well written, I must say, sir, but I hesitate to remind you:
Members of society have no difficulty in berating the current legislation for its stance on immigration reform, and you said, ?Our government needs to develop a road plan that increases legal documentation enforcement for employers, and deports illegal immigrants by the truck load. (Continued…)
Joshua Morgan
posted 1/29/10 @ 1:04 PM AST
@Morgan
History has played its course and right now we have to address the current and future situations.
Immigration, in its legal form, in the sense that someone comes here with the honest intention of applying for citizenship or residency is a good thing. (Continued…)
Morgan Sullivan
posted 1/29/10 @ 2:44 PM AST
My intent in expounding on American history was not merely to point out the hypocrisy involved in debates such as this, when someone less educated (a common man, so to speak) would argue this point with no factual basis, using a more racial sphere as a point of reference. (Continued…)
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