kain_kusanagi said:
Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Here's my plan:
1. Secure the border.
What ever it takes, no matter the cost. No more drug, weapon, or human trafficking.
2. Repeal baby anchor laws.
To be a natural born US citizen you must have at least one full US citizen parent. It doesn't matter where you're born.
3. Issue work visas where needed and bust illegal alien employers.
No more illegal employment, period.
4. Send all illegal aliens back to their country of origin.
That includes whole families if need be. They broke the law and have no right to be here. They can apply for visas like everyone else and the path to citizenship will still be available to them. No more walking across the boarder and getting default citizenship.
5. Speed up legal immigration.
Fix the damn immigration process so it doesn't take half a lifetime. Make it faster, but make it thorough.
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I get why you'd feel that way, but actually finding and sending back all the illegal aliens at this point would be prohibitivly expesnive for relative gain to the country as a whole at a time in which we have a huge budget deficit.
Outside the illegal aliens that specifically came here on order of the drug cartels illegal immigrants really don't get into much trouble criminally and are just like other immigrants outside not having some federal benefits, not paying taxes etc.
So essentially we'd be paying lots of money to track down, find and send millions of people back. While simaltaniously spending a lot more money quickly approving and arrangeing travel/infrasturcture to bring in legal immigrants so we don't suffer from a lack of the workforce in low end argiculture type jobs.
It's just too big and expensive a problem, hence why I think it makes sense to admit they "got over" on us. Follow my plan above, then deport people after that. Add in getting rid of the whole Anchor Baby thing and it still works pretty well.
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Anchor Baby would require a constitutional amendment, though. Isn't that part of #14?
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The 14th Amendment is one of the reconstruction amendments and it's almost entirely out of date. Most of it was ratified to ensure former slaves could not be denied citizenship. At the time there where no immigration laws so the issue of anchor babies was an unforeseen consequence. The 14th Amendment would be easy to remove because we no longer have a need for any of it. Some people would throw a fit over the anchor baby thing, but anyone with a rational perspective can see that the 14th Amendment isn't needed, is out of date, and does more harm than good. I can't think of any other nation that hands out full citizenship to babies of foreign nationals who just happen to be within their border during birth. It's just plain stupid and it was never the intent of the 14th Amendment in the first place.
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Oh no no no, certainly the 14th amendment is doing things it was never intended to do, but unlike the 2nd amendment doing things it was never intended to do, the unintentional consequences for #14 are usually good stuff.
