Getting rid of the other 1,199 pages - the Immegration Bill
Greta Van Susteren has a brilliant solution. One page and it uses the mechanisms that are already in place.
From her website at
FOX News:
MY ONE PAGE IMMIGRATION BILL (not 1200 page) � HOW ABOUT A SIMPLE IMMIGRATION SOLUTION? (not perfect � but simple?)
With regard to our nation�s illegal immigration problem, the goal should be to SOLVE it, not WIN some political battle.
If you want to solve a problem, and not win some fight, it means no one will get everything he or she wants but will have to compromise (give up some things) but in the end we achieve a workable solution.
The solution, to work, must but be simple, not complex. The more complex, the more problems that will arise from it. Complex solutions are not solutions and a recipe for more fights and confusion.
So�I thought I would take a stab at a simple, not perfect, solution for illegal immigration. I may be missing something (you will tell me) but I am trying to make this bare bones easy while achieving the goals of the nation. Read the entire proposal below, and tell me what you think. DO NOT EXPECT MY PROPOSAL WILL BE 100 per cent of what YOU want � instead ask yourself if it is a giant step forward and addresses the issues in a simple and manageable way:1/ PROBLEM: every day we get people entering the USA illegally (or staying beyond visas � I will get to this later.)
SIMPLE SOLUTION: SEAL THE BORDERS. Don�t tell me we don�t have the money � we do. We can stop doing stupid thinks like the IRS, in just 2 years, spending $50 million on conferences involving line dancing and trinkets. (They don�t have receipts for the other years and you can expect the same absurd waste.) We can sell empty government buildings (the number of buildings is staggering!) and everyone, including the President, can tighten the belt (is this really the right time to be going to Africa to the tune of $60-100 million dollars?) Cost overruns and waste at the Pentagon are breathtakingly large�and I could go on and on and on. We just need to start being smart about our money.
We can figure out how to seal the borders (it just isn�t that hard!) and we can afford it.
2/ PROBLEM: What about the 11 MILLION IN THE USA ILLEGALLY NOW? If you speak to the 11 million, you know their big fear and that is that ICE will deport them. That is what THEY want solved.
SIMPLE SOLUTION: give them special green cards (we already know how to do that and have a mechanism) but make them ineligible for citizenship with their special green cards since there should be some price for violating our laws. They can stay and work forever and be good neighbors with green cards � but they can�t be citizens for violating our immigration law and then getting lucky. Green cards are a solution in that they will give them the wanted security ICE is not coming for them in the middle of the night and we will have them working legally and paying taxes. They will be good neighbors.
If by chance some want to become citizens, there is a path � the old fashion one that every immigrant who became a US Citizen followed. They should follow the rule for immigration that have been in effect for decades. The person with the green card can return home to his or her country, stay there for a period of time and make application for citizenship. We don�t have to invent any new red tape under my proposal � do it the old fashion way. It takes some work to become a citizen � and inconvenience of going home for a period of time � but it will show the level of desire and commitment. It will also confirm to us the person really wants to be a citizen.
More at the site. Beats all the loopholes and pork in the current bill.
Some fun comments too --
complete moonbat and
preaching to the choir.
Posted by DaveH at June 26, 2013 7:29 PM