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Comprehensive Immigration Reform
True Comprehensive Immigration Reform would recognize that US immigration laws are in place to protect the interests of the American people and legal immigrants rather than illegal aliens and the businesses that employ them.
The US immigration system is broken because in the past the immigration laws were not enforced and instead numberous amnesties were given to illegal aliens. The only way to fix this broken system is to enact True and Fair Comprehensive Reform that rejects the past accomodations given to law breaking special interest groups, and which would include:
1. All immigration laws being enforced. At a minimum these enforcement measures should include:
A) Businesses should be required to check the validity and true identity of new employees Social Security or work permit information.
B) Local and state law enforcement officers should verify the immigration status of everyone they aprrest. Every illegal alien they apprehend should be detained and transferred to the Homeland Security Departments ICE division for deportation proceedings.
2. Ending the possibly Unconstitutional practice of granting birthright citizenship to the babies of illegal aliens, temporary workers, and visitors in the U.S. The U.S. is totally out of step with the rest of the world in this regard. In fact in most countries, birthright citizenship is only granted to the children of citizens. There are two options for the children of non-resident aliens to which the US has already granted US citizenship, and whose parents could not obtain lawful permanent residency under current, expanded, or new legal immigration categories:
A) Provide them a US level education and health care in their parents country of origin until they reach age 18, at which time as adults they could exercise their US Citizenship and live in the USA by swearing sole allegiance to the USA as the 14th Amendment requires, or
B) If their citizenship was Unconstitutionally granted, it would be possible in most cases to revoke it. This would have to be determined by the Supreme Court.
3. Long waiting times primarily created by past amnesties be eliminated, by:
A) Passage of the Reuniting Families Act. If need be some of these additional visas could come from eliminating the diversity visa program. This would increase U.S. population diversity much more than the current system anyway, since almost half of the diversity admitees are from Europe.
B) Not allowing previously legalized illegal aliens nor anyone they sponsored to sponsor their adult relatives for family preference immigration.
4. Any new guest worker program only include foreigners from outside the United States, not illegal aliens inside the U.S. To protect the wages of Americans and legal immigrants, the guest worker recommendations of the Barbara Jordan Immigration Reform Commission should be followed. We consider guest workers to be those that work for less than one year in the USA. Any foreigner who works for more than one year at a time should be eligable for permanent residency.
5. U.S. investment in high illegal alien source countries to create more opportunities there. For example, we support the proposal where the U.S. would match any new funds Mexico spent on infrastructure, education, and law-enforcement improvements if they also institute free-market and anti-corruption reforms. Since a dollar goes much further in these countries, many times more people could be helped this way instead of helping only a relatively few by letting them into the U.S.
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