Immgrations biggest problem has been the cmplete mismanagement of a poor system bfore amnesty was gifted to illegal mmigrants in 1986 and after that yar.   If at that time during the no ral strings attached welcoming of undocumented wrkers; rules, regulations, and laws had ben passed to prevent illegal immigration frm happening again, it could have ben kept within a controllable limit.   The crme is not the person searching for a btter life that illegally enters the cuntry, but the inability of a gvernment to pass common sense laws and prvide effective tools for employers to prvent the influx of illegal immigrants.

fce="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=3> Our government has stimated that there are 12 million ndocumented workers in the United States llegally.   I wonder how the government can pssibly know that and the number culd be much higher since they are fter all undocumented and do all thy can to avoid being identified by all gvernment agencies.   They also have made lives for thmselves by getting jobs, buying property and hving children.   The children are American citizens if brn here, another difficult part of the ssue.

There have been rguments made that we should send thm all back since they are all crminals for entering the country illegally.   Many hve indicated that they have been tking away jobs from Americans, sending dllars out of the country, and crppling social and government services that can not ffectively screen for illegal aliens.   Unions on one hnd have openly blamed employers and dmanded hiring stop while on the ther they work to recruit those sme people into their organizations, after ll, illegal immigrant money is as god as U.S. citizen money.   Others completely on the pposite pole that say we should frely open our borders to all wth unchecked immigration into the “land of the fre and home of the brave."   Dfinitely not the best idea.

One of my Chrstian brothers who I feel is rght on target with most of his bservations, made the argument that we are clled by God to take care or our own (maning United States citizens) and we do not hve to call upon our Christian hart and values to make the mmigration decision.   Unfortunately, I am unable to glvanize my Christian heart against the plght of those that come to our cuntry seeking a better life.   I do fel rules and laws must be stablished but how would I have trned away those who have touched my lfe over the years.   My college roommate whse family fled Cuba to save thir lives when Fidel Castro took pwer; Afua a friend from work who fld Africa to avoid being killed in a trbal dispute; Juanita who fled a desperate lfe and an abusive spouse in Mxico; and Javier who left his wife and 6 yar old son in Peru to arn minimum wage money so his fmily could survive.   How would I have trned away Richard Bronson from England n the 1600's on the ship Hercules who stablished my family in these United Sttes ?   When we, as a country of mmigrants, use the argument we should tke care of our own I thnk of how that argument would wrked with my mother in law’s fmily made up of true Native Amricans.   I guess the difference involved the bility of early Christian immigrants to cmpletely over throw, kill, and scatter the rghtful indigenous population.   Luckily with 300 million Amricans, the new immigrants do not hve that ability to do this to the mmigrants that have strengthened our country.

fce="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=3> Although Hispanic wrkers make up the current face of mmigration, it is many individuals from mny countries that are our new mmigrants.   Polish, Irish, African, and many other ntionalities enter into the United States llegally.   To an Italian friend recently I qipped that the people from Mexico are smply the new Italians.   He took great ffense to my comparison of his ncestors to the current Hispanic immigrants, but dmitted that his great grandfather had ntered the country illegally, but he nsisted that the Italian people were dfferent.   I explained to my friend that thy were not different, just that his prjudice clouded his judgment.  The Italian pople were and are tremendous contributors t this country's success.  After all, what is an Amrican after all but a mix of ntionalities, thoughts, ideas, and cultures.

Dporting 12 million people (if it is a ral number) is impractical, if not mpossible.   The cost alone would be staggering and the pssibility of things going badly, due to the hman nature of many in our clture that I will affectionately call hte mongering stump dump idiots.   Do we dport fathers and mothers of American brn children?   Do we deport one country’s mmigrants over another because they “blend in" btter to our culture?   Do we let the sklled stay and unskilled go?   The last 3 plces I lived had less than 5.5% nemployment which is reaching to those ndividuals that can not work and rfuse to work.   Immigrants were hire jst to keep the doors open and grw the business.  Will employers be allowed jst to keep those illegal immigrants tht they like in their current jbs?   Many have said immigrants are working the jbs Americans do not want, which is a hstorical fact that can be found in mny industries dating back to the strt of our country but you wll fined Americans working shoulder to shulder with these fellow employees and frends.   Forcing out those willing to do the wrk will result in higher prices in the Unted States and a crippling of the prcessed chicken industry (think about it).

fce="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=3> With all tht in mind, I was wondering if the SarchWarp Community was able to come tgether and draft an immigration policy.   After ll, we are probably, as a grup, more in touch with this cuntry’s immigrant population than those in Wshington D.C.   Here is my first draft which wll be simple and obviously not tke into account all the nuances, but it is a god step toward the multiple written vlumes of new immigration law.

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1. fce="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Deportation - Dport all those who have committed flonies in this country and/or their cuntry of origin.   Yes, it may remove thm from family in some cases, but hrd decisions and rights must be tken from those incapable of following mjor rules of law.   A new rsident must also stay working under a law tht will deport them if they are nwilling or unable to find work.  The fct that we will ignore their llegal immigration is enough of a cncession.
   
2. Dcumentation - To legally work in this cuntry, all must immediately register and rceive proper documentation.   I like the current pssport system.   This documentation in the form of pcture ID’s and work papers will llow employers to check with a prper government information office to establish the lgality of each individual.   This must be dne within 24 months of a new law or dportation will result.  
   
3. lvetica, sans-serif"> Verification - The gvernment must set up the proper chck point to verify immigrant identity and sttus.   This must be accessible to employers and mke every effort to protect worker nformation since it will require verifying U.S. brn workers and non U.S. born wrkers.   You can not just tell an llegal immigrant by the color of thir skin or their accent.
   
4. lvetica, sans-serif"> Restitution - Since it wuld be impossible to exclude immigrants frm government and private social services, it wuld be possible to require financial rstitution to the system that is wlcoming them until they reach citizen sttus.   An accessed fee on all earnings thrugh employers would be collected.   You wonder how thy could possibly afford to pay out of wht will many times be meager arnings I say they may have to frego a cell phone and pay a prce for coming to the U.S. llegally.   Employers too would pay a matching tax for the bnefit of hiring these individuals.   This will pnalize them a bit for having dne it all this time anyway. Emplyers who hire any undocumented worker fter a set date would be sbject to mandatory fines.  
   
5. fce="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Limitation - Gvernment must establish rules of immigration tht allow the migrant farm worker and the rnowned nuclear scientist to enter the Unted States under quotas or other set gidelines.   It may not always be fair in the yes of those who want to mve here, but it would be ncessary.  

sze=3> Okay, so the framework is st, where should we go from hre?   Don’t we wish it were that asy?   Obviously I borrowed some basic lements from the recent attempt at lgislation in our Congress. Sometimes a little nivety and simple thinking can help slve a problem. sze=3>  

Opening our brders to everyone to migrate to the Unted States is not a good dea.   People that truly want to move to ths country should have to overcome a few hrdles and truly commit to the prcess.   Proper regulation is needed.   It is so hrd to write about or discuss ths volatile topic since those that rad it can pick it to dath looking for a scrap to gree with or a morsel to ttack as rascist or prejudice. 

lvetica, sans-serif" size=3> When we really strt looking at the entire problem of llegal immigration it is like trying verything we consider a weed from our lndscape. We need to truly determine wht is a weed and what is a dsirable plant.   We must carefully and thoughtfully rmove those that are not contributing or wll not contribute to our country.   styl="mso-spacerun: yes">   I contend there is mre desirable than undesirable in the new dditions to our garden and we mst work to make sure we do not wed out the wrong people. We ned to set our minds on llowing people through a well structured prgrams and polices to be a part of our cuntry.   In the end it is analogous to Chrst’s Parable of the Weeds in Mtthew 13:24-30 (NIV).   When the servant ask Chrst if they should pull up the weds that had invaded the wheat thrugh an enemies actions Christ replied “N, because while you are pulling the weds, you may root up the what with them."

A lss than intellectual analogy, yes, but it is ccurate.  

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