The time has come to end immigration as we understand it. Immigration as it exists now is insane. The vast majority of people entering the United States come on family based forms. Who is to say Uncle Bill of country Y is a good addition to our community ?
The other part is that we refuse to see citizenship as conditional. If person X sends money to terrorists or person Y is a drug kingpin they have lost the honor of dwelling in the USA.
We ask directly on our immigration forms have you ever been a member of a Communist or Nazi party. We should now include have you ever advocated Jihad ? Have you participated in the funding of jihad ? Have you served in the religious police ? No doubt most jihadist will lie but it is time to get serious about the reality of Islam.
The US should focus on work visas and humanitarian visas. Christians, Hindus and other religious minorities persecuted in Muslim countries should be treated exactly like people fleeing Communism. All other immigration should be based on job skills.
The era of unskilled labor is largely over. A modern country can not keep adding people with no job skills. I have petitions where the person has to sign with a thumb print. Where are these people who can not even write their own name going to work ?
We must also get serious about penalties for those who flout our labor laws. The problem can never be reduced by placing blinders on to the abuse of certain companies. If they can not follow our labor laws then that company should not exist.
This applies to the ubber wealthy who insist on hiring illegal aliens as nannies .
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Beak,
Before I saw this post, my husband and I were discussing some of your previous points about immigration.
I agree with you on the issue of immigration.
Have you seen this 1907 quotation from Theodore Roosevelt?
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
You pointed out: If they can not follow our labor laws then that company should not exist.
This applies to the ubber wealthy who insist on hiring illegal aliens as nannies .
I've been bitching about this aspect for years. Employers who hire illegals are breaking the law and hsould be held accountable, painfully enough to make them cut out illegal hiring practices.
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