Hiatus Break – Immigration Edition
Immigration has been a huge issue for some time now. At first, I thought it was moderately entertaining, but as it has drawn out, it’s just gotten boring. The House has passed some real reforms, if imperfect. The Senate has done everything they can to destroy those reforms. In fact, the Senate made their whole bill unconstitutiional by ignoring some basic, elementary-school constitutional law.
Anybody here who didn’t know that revenue-generating bills must start in the House of Representatives, stand up. You folks should find a pocket copy of the Constitution and do some studying.
I think it is time for some real reforms. Here’s my proposition.
- Anyone entering or residing in the US without valid authorization shall, after a six-month grace-period, be committing a felony.
- Anyone found committing the above felony shall pay $5000 and be deported. Alternately, they can stay in the country on work-release as long as they A) Have a job, B) Spend five years on probation, C) Pay $1000 initial fine and $1000 per year for the five years they are on probation. D) Demonstrate, by the second year of their probation, at least a functioning knowledge of the English language. Probationary residents shall be considered to be legal during the duration of their stay, and once their probation has been completed, eligibility time limits for citizenship may begin.
- Any local, state, or other government entity that refuses to enforce immigration law shall lose all federal funding.
- Any monies removed from localities that refuse to enforce immigration law shall flow as bonuses to those areas that do enforce the same laws, based on the statistics of enforcement given to the federal immigration authorities. (ie. San Diego loses millions of dollars because they refuse to enforce. The Raleigh, NC police department turns 1000 cases over to the feds. Raleigh will receive 1000 shares of the funding lost by San Diego and other localities that refused.)
- No illegal immigrant or immigration probationer may receive government services free of charge. These services include welfare assistance, education, housing, and such. These services shall not include police, fire, and rescue services or actual emergency medicine. If non-covered services are used, their costs shall be added to the probation fees and must be paid before probation may end.
- At any time, a probationer may request deportation and their probation will end permanently, and future eligibility for re-entry will be revoked for twice the remaining time of their probation.
That’s my idea. I think it would work.
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