1. The United States must secure our borders from illegal immigration before we can reform our naturalization system.
The United States must negotiate a strict treaty with Mexico to control their border with the United States.
Mexico’s refusal or lack of interest in controlling their border with the United States deliberately violates our sovereignty and is a de facto state of war with the United States. They deliberately let into the United States their people and drug dealers for their financial benefit. Violations of our borders by illegal immigrants threaten our national security and the health of our citizens. Many illegal immigrants are terrorist sympathizers and others carry diseases from countries where health codes are not enforced.
Unless our borders are “iron curtains,” immigration reform is a waste of time and represents political posturing used by the Democrats to curry favor with the Mexican illegals for their future votes after they have received amnesty. In the meantime, even more illegals will attempt to cross the porous border to receive such opportunities in the United States that are not available in Mexico.
2. It is obvious that the present process of naturalization is too long and expensive. It should be reformed to be a three-year process. If the candidate did not pass his or her test in that time, then another year would be granted. If that failed, then the candidate would be deported or placed on a temporary work program.
3. With anywhere from 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States, our representatives will need to mount a draconian effort to train all these illegals in American culture, history, and English. Otherwise we will not have an American system as we know it today for our grandchildren.
4. There must be a crackdown on all employers to require all employees to be legal immigrants or on the naturalization or official works program. Employers must be responsible for these foreign workers.
5. All the social welfare programs that attract the illegal immigrants must be eliminated. If you break our laws, you get nothing.
6. If guest workers are really needed in the United States, they must be under contract for a finite time and bused from the border by their employers and housed at decent facilities and returned to the border when the work is done. The families could not live with the workers, and only emergency medical service would be provided. Food could be provided individually or in a boarding house format.
7. Visas must be reviewed and policed to end permanent student “visits.”
8. Asylum programs must vet candidates to weed out the Muslim terrorists.
9. Only if American citizens cannot fill a need should guest workers be
allowed in.
10. Family members have to wait their turn to become citizens to enter the United States permanently, not as “tag ons” to naturalized members.
11. If our representatives do not fix this mess now, we might as well officially open up our borders to everyone who wants to come.
Justin M. Ruhge of Concerned Taxpayers, I.N.C., lives in Lompoc. Send comments to the executive editor at rmiller@santmariasun.com.
This article appears in Jun 6-13, 2013.