How would you reform the immigration system?

I am totally against illegal immigration, but I don’t think it would be a problem if the U.S. would mind it’s on business. A non interventionist foreign policy is the only way.

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Maybe what we should do is look to the source of the problem. Why are migrants (as Latinos call them) or immigrants (as Anglos call them) leaving their homes. The answer is to seek a better life by way of finding employment, because there are no jobs at home. Let’s take a look at some of the areas where the immigrants come from, better yet the birthrates of these places. Mexico 2.0% population increase each year; El Salvador – 2.05%; Guatemala – 2.38%; Haiti – 2.55%; Honduras – 2.23%; Nicaragua – 2.0%. The population growth for Costa Rica, a country that does not have a high out migration problem is much lower than its neighbors, only 1.3%. That means fewer children are being born in Costa Rica and the family size is much smaller than her neighbors to the north. Costa Rica’s smaller population growth has fueled the country’s economic growth. The per capita income of Costa Rica is three time higher than any of the other Central American countries. Is somebody seeing a pattern here?

DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.

I will negotiate with Mexican government to pass legislations (1) to eliminate all corruptions in Mexico, (2) to implement bilateral agreement with Mexican government to exercise free trade agreement within our two countries, (3) to guarantee immigrants’ rights (in both countries) such as right to own and dispose of properties, right to have free medical treatments, and other fundamental human rights, and (4)once these issues are taken care of, to tear down the border fences so that everyone can cross back and forth without any hassle. Meanwhile in both countries, build a strong national security system. Centralized and shared biological identification system (in which all citizens from both countries must be registered) using DNA, finger prints, and eye-scans technologies will be used so that any hardcore criminals will be swiftly and harshly prosecuted and if found guilty they will be put away permanently. This way, there will be less headache dealing with illegal immigration issues in the future between the US and Mexico.

To me, you need a four pronged solution.

Firstly, you need near Draconian punishments for businesses KNOWINGLY hiring illegal workers, and individuals who provide housing to them. Some folks will even have to do jail time for repeated infractions. Most will loose business licenses or have fines that eat up any profit they made that year, the proceeds from which can go to help displaced American workers. Illegal immigrants mostly come for jobs. If business owners, big and small, lived in fear of hiring illegals, and thus refused to employ them, I seriously doubt those presently contemplating migration would leave their homes and loved ones to come to America.

Secondly, cut off their social services as much as possible. I know the Supreme Court has previously ruled their children have to be educated, and that hospitals have to take all life and death cases, regardless of ability to pay or legal status, but they’ve never mandated food stamps or medicaid be given irregardless of legal status. No drivers licenses, tax ID’s, or legal documentation of any kind, either. These two prongs of the plan would incentivize returning to Mexico VOLUNTARILY, making mass deportation unnecesary.

Where deportation would work would be in cases where illegal aliens are arrested or held by police, discovered to be undocumented, and deported. If they commited a crime, then they need to stand trial, but if they are held for a traffic violation or even jay walking, they need to be turned over to ICE and deported. Zero tollerance for any illegal immigrant found in the US by law inforcement officials while they perform their usual duties.

Finally, border security upgrades, mostly in hiring more border patrol agents to stop incoming illegals trying to cross the border, as well as fencing and electronic surveylannce. This is the effective or necesary aspect in fighting illegal immigration, but it has its place in preventing terrorists from hiding amongst migrants, as well as curtailing drug smuggling into the US, along the same routes migrants use.

As for the arguement that these illegal immigrants are just poor folks needing a better life, the US was founded on the idea that governments gain power by the consent of the governed. If these people want good jobs, they are in a envious position, being just south of the biggest superpower in the world, to become a nation with great jobs available. However, rather than fight for their own interests in Mexico, they go north and drive down wages and standards of living for Americans. It’s not true that illegal immigrants, primarily Mexicans, do jobs Americans won’t. It’s that they do jobs Americans won’t at pitiful wages, under sometimes ultra hazardous conditions. In short, coming to America to find work is the easier route for poor Mexicans, but easy isn’t always best, for either country or their people. We need to make it less easy to come to America and drive down wages, than to fight for social justice in Mexico.