I have a better idea, I’ve written about it before too. Here’s a copy of another post:
Securing the border is priority one, but do it WHILE getting everything else going.
E verify - I’m not crazy about the government having a database of any kind, but this seems like it might be necessary. Give it some teeth.
Fines - Fine every employer caught hiring illegal immigrants, I’d say $10,000 per person.
Caught here illegally - Confiscate everything. Money, cars, home furnishings, leave them with the clothes they’re wearing. Go home.
Wire transfers - 25% fee on all Western Union money transfers going out to Mexico, no exceptions.
1st time - Go home. Lose everything.
2nd time - Stay here, in prison, 5 years, lose everything.
And of course there’s my long time immigration plan...
I need to copy this into a notepad file, I seem to be posting it a lot...secure the border of course...
1. Stop all foreign aid to Mexico. Stop the money, you have their attention. Nothing gets a politicians attention quicker. I’ve recently amended that to stop all foreign aid to every country south of Texas.
2. Stop all tourist traffic into Mexico on a temporary basis, in the interest of public safety, Americans are in danger south of the border.
3. Put the military at the border if necessary, shoulder to shoulder, from Laredo to the Pacific shore.
4. Tell Mexico to stop illegal immigration AND shut down the drug cartels and we’ll talk money.
I give it 6 months and you won’t be able to get a mouse across the border without papers.
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Temporary work permits...maybe...but only for months, not years. With unemployment high as it is, I think many of the jobs currently held by illegals would be welcomed by Americans who need to survive.
Add to Number 1:
Declare all Mexican Consulate staff Persona Non Grata and require that they remove themselves and dependents from the USA within 24 hours.
Reason: They have been instrumental in providing false IDs with their matricula cards, publications providing instructions to illegal aliens.
Declare any visiting Mexican official who espouses the cause of amnesty and attempts to sway US government public policy and laws subversive elements and PNGs and remove themselves as above.
Immediately limit incoming commercial trucking to 25% of current average at border crossings. That 25% subject to total inspection of all cargo, removed from vehicle and hand inspected on tarmac, the cost paid for by shipper.
Stop allowing Mexican nationals from driving such rigs within US borders, require licensed American drivers past inspection point.
Declare Mexico hostile to the interests and safety of the USA giving it same status as North Korea. And any lobbyist group or individual as agents of a hostile nation.
And no ‘effeing loop holes or exceptions attempted by elected officials.
It's interesting to me that Texas, Arizona, and California - three states complaining the most about illegal immigrants - are three states which do not require employers to use e-verify to check legal status. I wonder why?
Wire transfers - 25% fee on all Western Union money transfers going out to Mexico, no exceptions.
You penalize the legal as well as the illegal, and not all illegal aliens are from Mexico. Some 40% of them come from countries other than Mexico. What about them?
2nd time - Stay here, in prison, 5 years, lose everything.
That makes illegal residency a criminal offense rather than a civil one. That would require jury trials, bail, appeals, and all the rest.
Fines - Fine every employer caught hiring illegal immigrants, I’d say $10,000 per person.”””
Wire Transfers.....
The fine for hiring an illegal is already $5000 per employee PER DAY. It is not being enforced.
Take 50% of every dime going to any country south of our border & set a high transfer fee on every Western Union transaction, also. Make it so expensive that it stops.
Do a better job of catching & prosecuting the drug cartel workers who are destroying our National lands with their Marijuana grows. Somehow, Los Angeles County deputies found $1.2 million in plants & took them out, but ‘missed’ the workers who still had breakfast cooking at their camp site. These cartel workers are very dangerous & they are getting scattered into the general population of the USA.
While the USA goes after cash deposits by legal & correct businesses, they could do a better job of tracing purchases of irrigation tubing, which can run to thousands of feet in these illegal drug cartel growing sites.
You missed a step:
0 - End the welfare state. Return to a service base economy: You use hospitals/schools/services, you PAY for hospitals/schools/services. This ONE step would solve, IMO, 90% of the illegal ‘problem’.
Though, I’m not for the E-verify: govt has no authority in the say/where/when one is hired for employment (IE: approval/license). You can’t be for the Const. in one area and subvert it in the next instance.
I am TOTALLY for the ‘hits’ one would take as an illegal: make it HURT, and hurt financially.