Originally posted by airforce:
Getting back on track here, there is a simple solution to end the problem of "illegal" immigration.
Make it legal.
If you wish, have them sign a guest book as they cross the border. Hand them a visa, which is good for as long as they (or the head of household) are working or searching for work, and say, "Welcome to America, the Land of the Free." Voila. No more illegal aliens from Mexico. And it's a whole lot cheaper than building some 50-foot fence and patrol it with drones. And it isn't nearly as creepy as issuing everyone a national ID card with all of your biometric data on it.
Here's something else that I'll just throw out for discussion. Is the "right to travel" a [b]fundamental, God-given human right? Why, or why not?
Onward and upward,
airforce [/b]
1. There is already a way to immigrate to the US legally. Those not following those rules are doing so illegally.
2. 50% of the inmates in one Illinois prison for murder are illegal aliens.
3. 95% of Los Angeles outstanding warrants for murder are for illegal aliens.
4. Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examined the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concluded that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year (2004).
5. Multi-lingual schooling is not melting cultures together and instead drives up the cost of education because the teachers are now getting added pay for teaching in other languages and we now have greater unequal education, skills and knowledge within the populations.
6. Look to Dearborn Michigan as to what happens when a new culture takes over an area. Ambulance drivers regularly find headless corpses or missing body parts when picking up the dead in the city.
7. Illegal aliens are not just Mexican.
8. I believe in the sovereignty of nations but I also believe in governments with limited powers which is why I support some of your anarchist viewpoints but I don't believe in open borders.
I think that we all value the freedom to travel safely. When I travel overseas, I often need a visa and a passport. We have treaties with some countries to travel for short periods of time without Visas, but we still need passports. If I worked overseas, I would need a visa and passport.
1. Do you think that murders and pediophiles from other countries should be free to roam our country?
2. Do you think that terrorists from other countries should be free to roam our country?
3. Why did the Roman Empire collapse?
