Cruz wants to legalize the lawbreakers and increase guest worker programs fourfold. When you reward something, you get more of it.
“Cruz wants to legalize the lawbreakers...”
I hadn’t read that. Can you point to a source?
I think tourist VISAs to USA are too difficult to get. I think they should be easier to obtain. But before that happens we need to enforce the laws already in the books, be assured that everybody can be tracked so that we know they do not overstay their VISA and if they do we need to do what Mexico does, throw them in jail before deportation and never allow them to get another VISA.
I also support increased guest worker VISAs when the national unemployment rate falls below 3% but the wages need to match that which would be received by an American citizen in the same position/company (so that company does not try to reject American workers in order to pay the foreign worker less money.
US VISAs are very difficult to get even now under Obama. It’s much easier to sneak over the border.
What do we do with those already here? Fine companies caught employing illegal immigrants and immediately jail then deport any illegal caught in this country without the chance of ever getting another VISA to come back.
If there is any type of amnesty I would support it would be a bit similar to what I heard Trump describe and that is, someone outstanding who has proven himself to be a good “resident” who has never collected government welfare and had paid income taxes on earnings made while here illegally. And the amnesty would be to leave now, apply for a work VISA (but not expedited as Trump described). Get in the back of the line behind those in your home country who decided to apply for a VISA the right way, the legal way.
This is all too simple. Enforce the laws, fine employers to encourage self deportation, deport any others caught staying here illegally and anybody caught committing fraud such as using fake IDs or SSN will go to prison for as long as an American citizen would go for such a fraud. It’s very simple. The most difficult part of it all would be the process of tracking.
The laws are in the books. Enforce them.