Immigration, Jobs, Etc.

Immigration, Jobs Etc.
By Daniel G. Jennings
I haven’t written much about the current immigration frenzy because everybody else is writing about it. So what do I think the US immigration policy should be?
Obviously we can’t deport all the illegal immigrants or close the border as the modern day Know Nothings demand we still have a labor shortage after all. So how do we deal with this situation?
My suggestion would be two fold, first a massive crackdown on the employers of illegal immigrants in the US. There’d be arrests, business licenses would be taken, we’d send executives to jail, confiscate property that sort of thing. The focus would be the sleazebags exploiting immigrants not the poor people looking for jobs. This would be cheaper and easier than rounding up illegal immigrants and far more effective.
The second part of my suggestion would be this, we’d set up US government labor recruiting offices in Latin America and elsewhere. People who wanted to go to the US to work would go to these places. They’d register and pay a small fee and get an official labor passport to work in the US and perhaps a ticket to America. The immigrants would be screened those with criminal records would be told to stay home. Only decent honest hardworking men looking for work would be allowed.
This way we’d know who is coming to the US and why. This would protect National Security
These guest workers would make the US minimum wage and pay all US taxes. They’d have full protection of American law, if an employer cheated them, they could hire a lawyer to sue them. I’m sure the ambulance chasers would be lining up to represent them in class action suits.
This would eliminate the Coyotes and the whole criminal underground that brings illegal aliens to the US. No bribery, no violence, just decent hardworking folk being allowed a shot at the American dream.
Immigrants with no criminal records who could prove their identity would be allowed in. If they worked here for five years they could bring their families and apply for citizenship. The family members would have to pass criminal background checks too.
Such a set up could end the illegal immigrant problem and give us a solution to the labor problem. More importantly it would give us a reason to deport those immigrants who pose a threat to our great nation. It would ensure that the new Americans would be honest laborers like our Great Grandparents, not criminals.
This would be a sensible move, unfortunately our political leaders sacrificed common sense to political hysteria long ago.