What do you propose for an Immigration Policy?

Immigration and our Borders Forum

I think there are as many ideas as there are people in the United States.

Our forefathers came to this country mostly as illegal aliens. Some took an oath to become citizens, some came through Ellis Island. Bottom line is most Americans came from immigrants who were at one time illegal.

That being said many believe that we are being invaded by Hispanics crossing our Southern boarder. In one month more than 40,000 illegal aliens crossed the border.

What should we as a country do????

a concrete wall seems like the simplest solution....

How high does it have to be though? 50 feet? Barbed wire at the top? Alligator pit? How far does it stretch? Most importantly, how much cash is it going to cost me and how much will I save compared to how much I am alread losing to the problem already.

-HECK!

1.) Stop hiring illegals and make the employers pay dearly.
2.) All illegals need to be identified and either made legal or allow them a work visa, If they don't they like either they WILL get deported.
3.) Allow them to register for a temporary work visas (for work)
4.) They must speak English to work here.
5.) No amnesty.
6.) Protect the border with what ever will work. Fence, wall or other but, the hole in the dam has to get plugged.

The thing with this wall idea is that it will not work. People will still get in somehow. Look at the Berlin wall Well constructed, barbed and razor wired patrolled by men with guns and fast, angry, hungry dogs, yet people still got through. The wall in Israel has certainly lessened attacks but again people still get through. So what makes you believe the US will do any better?

There is something that a lot of people have not addressed yet and that is the heinous crime of people smuggling. We have seen it in the UK and other countries as soon as you close the borders these organised criminal gangs start to get people in. How do you get round that one?

We don't need a wall. We just need politicians who oppose illegal immagration. The wall is a red herring. Just enforce the border.

As a resident of Phoenix, which has a very high population of illegals, my take on the situation is that it's unfortunate that Mexico must be such a lousy place to live, but it's not our responsibility to take in everyone who doesn't want to live there. What other country lets tens of thousands of people flood in and expect the infrastructure to take care of them and cater to them?

I respect the fact that many illegal workers are doing jobs that are otherwise difficult to fill. However, the negative impact on the community is a problem.

I would not be opposed to a sensible work-visa system, since I don't have an issue with people who want to work hard and better their situation. However, I don't agree with having vast numbers of people running around driving uninsured vehicles and expecting housing, food, medical care and schooling not just for free, but all in Spanish so no one has to bother to learn English.

Liberal apologists, who apparently feel that the United States is responsible for the world's ills, or at least is the sole party that needs to bear the brunt to correct them, try to either deny or downplay these things, or suggest that there's nothing amiss with legal taxpayers paying for illegal beneficiaries. I don't agree. Sorry, I live here. I know what it's like to not be able to apply for a quarter of the jobs in a given column of the paper because I'm not bilingual; I've known people who suffered undue hardship because they were unlucky enough to be in an accident caused by an illegal driving an uninsured car; here in AZ, we taxpayers are apparently about to have to actually pay because someone doesn't think our Spanish-speaking instruction in public schools is sufficient. (That's just a brief list, by the way.)

I think the jobs are hard to fill because the employers don't want to pay a fair wage.

How many illegals can you hire for the price of one US Citizen? Problem is who is going to take that job at minimum wage.

How can we boost the Mexican economy? One way is to move manufacturing plants to Mexico but the problem is that those plants then figure out that they don't have to pay a living wage so they don't.