True Immigration Reform
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
By Frosty Wooldridge
Let’s
get down to brass tacks! Let’s deal with America’s most troubling
problem by presenting our citizens with options. A recent CNN poll
showed 87 percent of Americans want illegal immigration stopped.
The
Federation for American Immigration Reform features, “SEVEN PRINCIPLES
OF TRUE COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM.”
One
FAIR spokesperson said, “It is critical to distinguish the reform
that the public seeks from the deceptive package of measures that
the immigration lobby is peddling. We feel it is time to speak out
on true reform.”
Overwhelming
and irrefutable facts show illegal and massive unrestricted immigration
harm our country. We face gridlocked and air polluted cities, environmental
degradation, crime, health care problems and education nightmares.
Massive immigration creates costs too high for American working families.
While
pro-open borders people strut their indignation and emotional charges,
political winds change in all sectors of America. We must deal with
this immigration quandary in favor of American citizens and all immigrants
who play by the rule of law. We cannot allow America to become the
doormat for illegality from an endless line of exploding out of the
Third World. FAIR promotes seven immutable principles:
First
Principle: Cut the Numbers
“Any
level of illegal immigration is unacceptable, and current legal immigrant
admissions of one million person annually are entirely too many,”
FAIR stated. “Any measure that increases either illegal or legal immigration
violates this principle. Immigration is a discretionary public policy.
Its primary purpose, since our founding, is to advance the interests
and security of the nation.”
How
much more simple can that fact be? We must ensure the viability of
our nation. By doing that, irresponsible nations like Mexico and others
around the world will be forced to deal with their citizens and create
solutions.
Second
Principle: No Amnesty or Mass Guest-Worker Program
“The
1987 amnesty was a failure; rather than reducing illegal immigration,
it led to an increase,” FAIR stated. “Any new amnesty measure will
further weaken respect for our immigration laws. Therefore, all amnesty
measures must be defeated.”
We
must enforce our immigration laws in the first place. Otherwise, illegals
coming from around the world laugh at us as they use and abuse us.
Illegal guest workers are not a benefit to our nation which has been
proven over and over with their consequences experienced in every
sector of our society. We stand for law or we sink into lawlessness.
Additionally,
illegals are no longer picking fruit or doing farm labor. They displace
and depress wages for America’s Middle Class in construction, painting,
dry wall, landscape, fast food, janitorial, roofing, trucking and
more.
Third
Principle: Protect Wages and Standards of Living
“Immigration
policy should not be permitted to undermine opportunities for America’s
poor and vulnerable citizens to improve their working conditions and
wages,” FAIR stated. “The need for guest workers must be determined
by objective indicators that a shortage of workers exists, i.e., extreme
wages inflation in a particular sector of the labor market.”
“The
current systems accepts self-serving employers who seek lower labor
costs as protections of American workers,” FAIR stated. “True reform
requires an objective test of labor shortage demonstrations by rising
wages to attract American workers.”
Who
among us wants to see our working poor--as typified in New Orleans
where 37 percent of our citizens live below the poverty level--further
degraded by allowing illegal aliens to work here against our laws
and our citizens? At what point do we take care of our own before
taking care of President Fox of Mexico’s responsibilities?
Fourth
Principle: Major Upgrade in Interior Enforcement, Led by Strong
Employer Penalties
“Employers
who knowingly employ unauthorized workers are the magnet that attracts
illegal entry into the U.S.,” FAIR stated. “These employers are complicit
in the illegal alien cartel activity of smuggling, trafficking, harboring,
employing and must be punished. We must reform the current system
by enforcing employer sanctions and fully punishing employers who
break the laws of this country. These punishments will be fines, jailing
for repeat offenders, and loss of corporate charters.”
FAIR
expects a level playing field for American workers. They demand illegal
alien employers be handcuffed, prosecuted and suffer ‘hard time’.
“The
Basic Pilot Employment Verification program must be made mandatory
and at no extra cost to employers,” FAIR stated. “Effective enforcement
on the border and the interior of the country requires that staffing,
equipment, detention facilities, and removal capabilities be adequate
to fully meet current needs.”
Fifth
Principle: Stop Special Interest Asylum Abuse
“Reforming
the refugee and asylum system means returning to the original purpose
and definition of the program: “any person who…is unable or unwilling
to avail himself or herself of the protection that country because
of persecution or a well founded fear of persecution on account of
race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political
opinion...America must honor its responsibilities to protect people
who are fleeing political persecution as defined by U.S. and international
law.”
At
the same time, treating aliens illegally residing in the country the
same as foreigners on legal visas for purposes of the Temporary Protected
Status designation is illogical and a form of amnesty that must be
ended.
Sixth
Principle: Immigration Time Out
“We
must restore moderation to legal immigration,” FAIR stated. “Beginning
with the Jordan Commission in 1995, we need to restrict to the minimum
consistent with stabilizing the U.S. population.”
To
continue a massive influx of three million illegal and one million
legal immigrants annually is a recipe for population disaster. A sustainable
number, from this journalist’s investigations points to a maximum
of 100,000 immigrants a year, only if that creates a stable population.
Anything more is sure to create an unsustainable population in the
long run.
Seventh
Principle: Equal Under the Law
“There
should be no favoritism toward or discrimination against any person
on the basis of race, color, creed or nationality,” FAIR stated. “All
admission of immigrants should come within a single, stable ceiling
which is periodically reviewed on the basis of a reasoned, explicit
goal of achieving population stability. We should abolish preferences
such as the Cuban Adjustment Act.”
The
facts show that the U.S. has limits of oil, natural gas, water and
farmland to grow food for our citizens. The key phrase is: ‘Carrying
Capacity’. We either work for and attain a sustainable society or
suffer the consequences of Bangladesh, India and China’s current misery
with untenable and unsustainable populations.
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