What about this for an Immigration plan?

The thing that I dont understand is why those who want this amnesty dont care about America workers? You never here any of them say we should protect American workers 1st. Why is that? What about American workers wages, middle class and the working poor, this amnesty will insure that there wages will never raise in their lifetime.

This whole debate is such a shame. Immigration is so easy to fix they just dont want to do it. 3 or 4 phases.

Phase 1. Legislate all the money.

New border patrol agents, Interior enforcment agents, Border fence and new technology for virtual fence, computer system for tracking everyone who enters and leaves the country, employment verification system, imigration judges. End the latchkey kid program and Amend the constitution stating for birthright citizenship 1 parent must be a US citizen. Birthright citizenship had to do with slavery it wasnt meant for this. Pass a law making fines 1 million dollars for each Illegal you hire + 1 million a day for every day it can be proved the Illegal worked for you + revoke your business lic. and never allow you to get another.

After all this is done and operational were ready to move to phase 2.

Phase 2.

Give business community amnesty from this point until Phase 3 is finished so they can comply. The new fines are meant for after this whole process is set up anyway. However it doesnt give them amnesty from any investigation that was going on before this time.

Require all Illegals to register so we can find out the true # here, ( I bet if the estimate is 10-20 million there is somewhere between 25-35 million.) also all employers must verify all their workers. Let it be know that any Illegal who doesnt register if caught in the country after the registation process is done you will deported within 24 hours and put on a banned for life list from ever entering the country again.

Once employers know how many Illegals they have, make them list all the jobs on a goverment Immigration website where it must stay for 5 business days so that any American citizen who wants one of those jobs can have them. Get every community organization involved especially in inner cities where their is high unemployment. The goverment can offer small relocation loans and for low income people grants to anyone who wants to take one of these jobs but maybe doesnt have any money to go to them. Just talking like a couple hundred dollars enough to get them their and keep them fed until they get a check. (Gas money,food stamps for a 2 weeks) somethng like that.

Phase 3

Now with any job left the companies can apply for temp workers to fill those postions, but every 6 months they must relist any job held by a temp worker. Now that we see what this countries worker needs are now we could look at whether we need to keep the temp workers just that, temp or are these permenant jobs where we need to put more people on a path to become citizens. Temp workers should be temp, I like the work 2 years them go home for 1 thats not to bad an idea. Also we need to go to the point based system where the countries needs come before family ties.

I know there might be a few other things we need to do also but this plan would protect American workers and give American citizens the 1st chance at any job in this country. We do need some workers and I am totally for legal immigration but instead of blanket amnesty for everyone the countries needs should drive the Immigration process. Also you should only be able to apply to be a temp worker from your home country. It should be balanced worldwide not just to mainly Mexican citizens.

For all those that favor amnesty and Mexican and other foreign citizens over American citizens, are all the 20+ million Illegals in this country right now working? The answer is NO. Go to any day labor gathering spot any day of the week and when you add them all up there are millions of Illegals just standing around with no job hoping someone might hire them for the day. But even those peolpe under the amnesty plan get to stay. Thats for only 1 reason, more cheap labor to lower American citizens wages.

What about this for an Immigration plan?

Very impressive. ..and believe me when I tell you that I don't say that very often, especially in discourse on this topic.

3 things:

1) $1 million fines? This seems too steep for an employer that was conned by the documentation presented by the employee. Not all cases of employment of illegals is with the knowledge of the employer. Fake docs are easy to come by. ...and will be, unless we create a police state.

Only hitting 'knowing' employers with steep fines would be acceptable to me.

2) If the loss of the excessive supply of cheap labor does lead to wage increases for actual citizens, more jobs will go 'overseas', unless trade regulations are instituted that demand importers to pay wages commensurate to U.S. wages.

3) The plan is far to sane to have a chance at implementation.

However, let me know when you run for office, if I am in your district, you will probably get my vote.

What about this for an Immigration plan?

Not bad but I think just enforcing our current laws properly and swiftly would get our country back into shape quicker and Americans workers can do as they want since this is our free country!

What about this for an Immigration plan?

I like this well enough to recommend you send a copy to all congress members! I am afraid it makes so much sense and is so pro American they would never consider it. The abomination they are trying to pass, S1348, is not dead yet and may be voted on this week. We all need to fight this country killer! Estimated costs 2.6 TRILLION and counting! No provision for funding any parts but some small stuff and no plan at all for providing infrastructure! This bill would turn us into another Mexico complete with poverty and corruption and in a very short time!

What about this for an Immigration plan?

Why do you believe that raising wages for workers without getting any additional value in return is a good thing? On the countrary, it's a horrible thing... If the wages rise, the prices rise for everything you buy (other than Chinese goods). Do you really want that? Immigrants is not the problem here, in fact, unless you are able to re-train American workers to have higher-valued skills, you'll never help them.

Economists have a name for what you are trying to propose: protectionism. And, according to wast world experience, most of the time you practice it by interfering with a normal market you generally regret it later.

What about this for an Immigration plan?

first of all, employment in very low here in the US. and they just came out with a study that both legal and illegal immigrants help wages go up.