Just curious why you focus on employed illegal immigrants?
I live in the land of immigrants (Bay Area) and a friend from South America said there are some very, very bad illegal immigrants that are more criminal than anything we normally see in this country and she said they come from her country. She obviously doesn't know them, but given they come from her country, she is able to recognize the type of criminal they probably are. They are unemployed illegal immigrants because their job she believes is to conduct a ring of drug deals or possibly murders or other horrible crimes. She said she was surprised these types of criminals from her country are here in our country - she felt only a poor country would have such bad criminals. She doesn't think the US govt will be able to handle these types of crimanals - she said they are so much more worse than what we find in the USA. She's disappointed the USA hasn't gotten rid of them. Ironically, the USA govt made a sweep of all people from her country and she got deported after she showed up to the govt and learned her immigration lawyer messed up the processing (he's now debarred from practising in Calif), however, the mafia-like criminals she said that live somewhere in either SJ or Campbell (I think she said Campbell) still remain in the USA. Ironic.
She's closer to the situation than you or me, so I'm more worried about what she's worried about, specifically illegal immigrants that are unemployed global criminals that our local police system would never be able to handle on its own without the help of FBI, CIA, etc.
But how do you catch the illegal immigrant that's a mafia-like criminal? Right now, the govt simply deports the educated.
I'd like to see a very strong focus on the following:
- change the laws so that you can deport a person for criminal behavior even if they are now US citizens but were previously illegal immigrants over the past ten years.
- make a sweep that targets illegal immigrants that are doing drugs, ring operations, murders and other horrible global like crimes. Don't deport the employed, educated illegal immigrant, but give them a better path to citizenship and get rid of the criminals that have landed in this country like a swarm of bees that sting this country. I tend to agree with the guest worker program, because it encourages all the reputable and honest illegal immigrants to register while it allows the govt to get rid of the ones that don't register (who are probably criminals). But it would need to give the people a path to citizenship while coming down extra hard on criminal behavior and boots anyone out of this country that does something illegal. We are too lenient on crime.
- make it a requirement to speak English so people integrate into our system. Get rid of the "Spanish" is special. Other foreigners aren't treated special, so Spanish should not be either. Speak English or you can't get your citizenship.
I'd rather see the govt fight criminals that are illegal immigrants than deport the hard-working people that build this country. The Republican bill will only impact teh honest, hard-working people. The criminals will still sneak through teh border, conduct their rings, and remain hidden. You recall how the govt simply releases those that have snuck over the border due to a lack of resources, only to see them sneak over the border again? That's the real problem. |
