English, taxes, ballot, ques and fines. (Total vanity)

May 15, 2006 | Beverly Nuckols

[hocndoc]

President Bush has outlined what sounds like a middle ground for immigration. (I know I may have lost half of you, but give me a chance.)

In my (not so humble) opinion, here's the pluses" 1. There's an immediate move to plug the holes. 2. The National Guard will be more likely to check the drug cartels in Mexican Army uniforms that the local police and even the Border Patrol. 3. There's a promise to end to the "catch and release" debacle 4. There's a tiered system of settling who stays and who goes and under what circumstances. 5. The President stressed the melting pot, assimilation and learning English.

And again, in my opinion, the minimum requirements should be:

A.. There must be an immediate - this week - accounting of who, where, and how long, with all documentation that the illegal aliens have in their permission

B. We can verify the details of residence and former employment for those who qualify for temporary worker and for future citizenship later but there must be no tolerance for falsifying this information.

B. Cost and fines can't be deferred, forgiven or passed on to the United States taxpayers. On the otherhand, if their own county wants to pay for the itemized fees and penalties, who am I to argue? ("If they stay, they hae to pay")

C. This is where the community service comes in - if they qualify to stay, they can do community service, cleaning roads, child care, or any of the more skilled or higher level jobs they are doing now. Let the work an extra shift a week to pay the fines.

D. All benefits of citizens except education for the children under age 18 are denied to the visitors - if they can't do without or find charities, employers or family to allow them to live here without Medicaid, food stamps, Aide to families with dependent children, etc, then they need to go back to their own countries. Perhaps we could work out reciprocal deals with some countries that would allow the same benefits for our long-term visitors??

E. There must be penalties for those employers who are found - by the paperwork turned in this week, etc - to have flagrantly violated wage, Social Security and Tax laws.

F. English is our official language. Citizens must take their qualifying exams in English. There's no reason for bilingual ballots or tax forms or any official document, any more. If you'r a visitor, I don't care what language you speak - in fact, I'll do my best to "parle," "sprechen," and "habla" to be polite - just as I would in your country. And we need to take care of our visitors from countries that reciprocate with traffic signs, etc., in English. But, our schools, our government and our places of business "talk American."

5.

[hocndoc]

Everyone that I vote for will demand these minimal requirements. And will hear from me, often about them.

Talk about nerve, huh?

[hocndoc]

Sorry about the bad formatting, "24" got in the way.

[hocndoc]

Shameless ping with a hint to go see today's (May 16) Day by Day, by Chris Muir
either at my blog
http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/index.html
or at the Day by Day website
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/

[dinasour]

>Shameless ping

Thanks doc. I have this pain... (oh never mind).