Dixie - In Memoriam
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I know the left doesn't want to hear any solution short of granting them all amnesty and giving them a Democratic Party voter registration card, and the hardcore right will say we need to have a mass deportation.... but, the situation is, we have over 10 million illegal aliens currently residing in the US, and eventually, we will have to address this problem.
I agree with those who think we need to secure the borders. Before we can even discuss anything else, that should be our first and foremost priority. That being said, what is next? What do we do about all of these people, many with families, who now live in our country illegally? Deportation is just not possible, we will never be able to round them all up and send them back to Mexico. It's just not a practical or realistic solution. So we have to figure out how we can mitigate this problem in a realistic way.
Here is what I propose. We currently allow a certain number of legal migrations to the US from Mexico. I think the number is 2 million per year, but I am not positive. Let's assume the number is 2 million, for the sake of this argument. First, we have to document as many illegal residents as possible, so we allow 6 months or so, for all illegal residents to register. Once we have a firm handle on just how many there are, we can proceed from there with a plan. Let's assume we find there are 12 million illegal aliens living here. We would need to "freeze" or declare a moratorium on legal migration from Mexico, for the next 6 years... (6x 2 million = 12 million.) During this time, in order of how they registered, we will count the current illegal residents as legal migrants, and allow them to follow the process of becoming US citizens, as a legal migrant would normally do. In the end, the numbers would all work out the same, and we've transformed the illegals into legal migration to the US.
That's my plan. No one gets deported, unless they simply fail or refuse to register. No one gets left behind, or has to uproot their family. Businesses that depend on the illegals as labor, are not inconvenienced. But before we can even start to implement this plan, we must first stop the flow. We have to seal the borders first.
I agree with those who think we need to secure the borders. Before we can even discuss anything else, that should be our first and foremost priority. That being said, what is next? What do we do about all of these people, many with families, who now live in our country illegally? Deportation is just not possible, we will never be able to round them all up and send them back to Mexico. It's just not a practical or realistic solution. So we have to figure out how we can mitigate this problem in a realistic way.
Here is what I propose. We currently allow a certain number of legal migrations to the US from Mexico. I think the number is 2 million per year, but I am not positive. Let's assume the number is 2 million, for the sake of this argument. First, we have to document as many illegal residents as possible, so we allow 6 months or so, for all illegal residents to register. Once we have a firm handle on just how many there are, we can proceed from there with a plan. Let's assume we find there are 12 million illegal aliens living here. We would need to "freeze" or declare a moratorium on legal migration from Mexico, for the next 6 years... (6x 2 million = 12 million.) During this time, in order of how they registered, we will count the current illegal residents as legal migrants, and allow them to follow the process of becoming US citizens, as a legal migrant would normally do. In the end, the numbers would all work out the same, and we've transformed the illegals into legal migration to the US.
That's my plan. No one gets deported, unless they simply fail or refuse to register. No one gets left behind, or has to uproot their family. Businesses that depend on the illegals as labor, are not inconvenienced. But before we can even start to implement this plan, we must first stop the flow. We have to seal the borders first.