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McKennedy Amnesty For Illegals
A lot is happening on the immigration front, mostly bad. Hugh Hewitt has taken to labeling it McCain-Kennedy Amnesty 2.0, which is fairly appropriate. Not sure what I would call it, except that anything Ted Kennedy supports and thinks is good, has got to be bad for this country. And this is. Here's a clip from MyWay News on what it does:
The proposed agreement would allow illegal immigrants to come forward and obtain a "Z visa" and - after paying fees and a $5,000 fine - ultimately get on track for permanent residency, which could take between eight and 13 years. Heads of households would have to return to their home countries first.They could come forward right away to claim a probationary card that would let them live and work legally in the U.S., but could not begin the path to permanent residency or citizenship until border security improvements and the high-tech worker identification program were completed.
A new crop of low-skilled guest workers would have to return home after stints of two years. They could renew their visas twice, but would be required to leave for a year in between each time. If they wanted to stay in the U.S. permanently, they would have to apply under the point system for a limited pool of green cards.
There is a lot more to it than that, including to reports that the wall/fence has been cut and half and may be killed altogether.
Anything this loose on the handling of illegal aliens is bad, and amounts to amnesty. That is not something I would advocate as illegal aliens routinely use forged documents and harvest the Social Security numbers of working Americans in order to get jobs. That is not exactly law-abiding, and also leads to identify theft and bad credit ratings because of the illegal's activities.
This is something I currently have to deal with. It turns out an illegal alien has been using my social security number for sometime. I ma not HAPPY about that fact.
Now I learn they intend to grant them amnesty and let them stay.
Okay, it may be unrealistic to deport 12 million people, but to let them get off so easy for their criminal behavior is simply NOT RIGHT!
We must build a wall and secure our borders, north and south. After that, we can determine the best way to handle the growing problem of illegal aliens within our borders. Whether that means they are given a choice to go home and return as temporary workers or deport them and close the gates on those who violated our laws can be debated. But allowing them to stay and pay a $5,000 fine, which is way to little to discourage this kind of behavior, as they have violated more laws than just the manner in which they entered the U.S. , is plain wrong.
There may not be a perfect solution to the issue of illegal aliens within the U.S., but anything short of securing our borders first is a non-solution.
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