Radio personality and author Neal Boortz has released his ideas on how to stop the tide of illegal trespassers from entering our country. He says it much better than I can, so I’ll simply repeat his words:
1. Close the borders. Not next month. Now. Send the National Guard. Send American troops. What are they for if not to defend the borders of this country? Let the rest of the world scream, but we have every right to defend our borders against invaders.
2. Immediately pass legislation providing for harsh penalties for any and all businesses and individuals who hire illegal aliens. No half-measures. Make it hurt. Let them know that this is serious and that hiring illegal aliens is tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Fine them and jail them.
3. Heavily tax all wire and other transfers of money from illegal aliens to their homelands. If Mexico is getting $20 billion a year from illegal aliens in the U.S., seize about 30% of it. Call it a fine. That $7 billion could also be spent on border and immigration control.
4. Change the law so that any child born to a person in this country illegally does not automatically become an American citizen. That child will adopt the citizenship of its mother.
5. Put an end to providing all but emergency social services to illegal aliens. No food stamps, no welfare benefits, no access to taxpayer-funded government schools … no taxpayer-funded government services except for life saving medical care.
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1 quicksilver // Apr 26, 2006 at 3:49 pm
That seems like the very horse-sense, workable, logic that will not be used when determining a solution to the illegal immigration problem.
Also, OT a bit, why do I keep reading in the media that these people are “undocumented” immigrants or lines like “…bill seeking to criminalize illegal immigration?” I see the media trying to shape this into some kind of “we’re xenophobes” story instead of a “there may be a problem that affets our whole society with illegals coming into this country” kind of story.