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Immigration reform by Clara D (no link needed, this is mine.)
Immigration reform, for it to work needs many elements and cooperation from both sides. It means sacrifices from both sides. That means no winners and no losers, except in the end everyone actually wins.
I am on board with E Verify. I am also on board with prosecuting employers for hiring people not properly authorized to live in the US. However, for me to be completely on board, there needs to be immigration reform.
What I will never be on board with is spending 25 to 30 billion on a wall. Not many of you have lived on the border. I was born there. You literally could throw rocks at the river that divided Mexico and the US from my back yard. When I was a child it was not uncommon for immigrants to travel every year in March and go back home in December. Seasonal immigrants if you want to call them that. No one really cared or gave them a second look. They were a crucial part of the agricultural industry and other jobs needed, ones that not enough citizens filled. In that aspect, little has changed.
What I would do with that money is programs for learning English, a veterans program for reintegration into society and education. Walls don’t make friends and spend lots of money we don’t have. Many a economic conservative will agree.
First, the Dreamers…yes, they should stay. If they have been here their entire lives…they belong here, not in another country. Fix it, we broke it…give them residency if they can prove they graduated and are paying taxes.
Second, spouses of US citizens. Roll back the requirements to those pre 1996, when a person paid a fine for the illegal presence and were given a waiver, allowed to adjust status upon proving a legitimate marriage….yes, they need to prove a work history and need to prove payment of taxes as well as no criminal record. Legitimate marriage to me is one where children exist or more than 5 years of marriage.
Reinstate VAWA…we shouldn’t allow spouses to marry, not legalize their spouse, and then beat the living crap out of them and not give them protection. Too many cases occurred where foreign wives were brought and beaten and threatened with deportation if they called the police. This should not happen in this country, ever.
Allow those illegally in the country to enlist in the military in order to obtain a legal status. If the person is willing to serve, I am willing to give them permanent residency.
If a person has a business and is contributing to this country, has been here more than 3 years, paid taxes, has no criminal record, give them a temporary status, then after 10 years allow them to adjust that status to permanent and after 5 more, citizenship.
Establish a real guest worker program for agricultural and other labor intensive industries. Visas would be good for 9 months and reapplied for after 3 months in their respective countries.
Enlist E-verify, but make it where people are given the opportunity to prove their status and not be fired immediately or denied employment…I am a mismatch…because my identity was stolen while I was out of the country. My identity was used to file taxes for jobs I didn’t perform and with fake W2 forms out of Atlanta, it was an identity theft ring, before some say it was an illegal immigrant, it wasn’t.
Enlist protections for those who are witnesses to crimes in this country. Criminals shouldn’t be allowed a free pass due to the immigration status of the witness or victim.
Require that permanent residents be allowed to renew their permanent residency no more than 2 times before they are required to file for citizenship.
Stop deporting veterans for smoking marijuana….sorry, that is just stupid.
Now some of you deport, deport, deport, have no issues with tearing apart families…but I do have issue with it.
Asylum, establish the ability to apply for asylum from a consulate in a neighboring country. Do not require them to enter the country and then apply. Provide documentation and make agreements with these countries that allow them temporary status while they await the adjudication of their asylum claim.
Fire away…
Immigration reform, for it to work needs many elements and cooperation from both sides. It means sacrifices from both sides. That means no winners and no losers, except in the end everyone actually wins.
I am on board with E Verify. I am also on board with prosecuting employers for hiring people not properly authorized to live in the US. However, for me to be completely on board, there needs to be immigration reform.
What I will never be on board with is spending 25 to 30 billion on a wall. Not many of you have lived on the border. I was born there. You literally could throw rocks at the river that divided Mexico and the US from my back yard. When I was a child it was not uncommon for immigrants to travel every year in March and go back home in December. Seasonal immigrants if you want to call them that. No one really cared or gave them a second look. They were a crucial part of the agricultural industry and other jobs needed, ones that not enough citizens filled. In that aspect, little has changed.
What I would do with that money is programs for learning English, a veterans program for reintegration into society and education. Walls don’t make friends and spend lots of money we don’t have. Many a economic conservative will agree.
First, the Dreamers…yes, they should stay. If they have been here their entire lives…they belong here, not in another country. Fix it, we broke it…give them residency if they can prove they graduated and are paying taxes.
Second, spouses of US citizens. Roll back the requirements to those pre 1996, when a person paid a fine for the illegal presence and were given a waiver, allowed to adjust status upon proving a legitimate marriage….yes, they need to prove a work history and need to prove payment of taxes as well as no criminal record. Legitimate marriage to me is one where children exist or more than 5 years of marriage.
Reinstate VAWA…we shouldn’t allow spouses to marry, not legalize their spouse, and then beat the living crap out of them and not give them protection. Too many cases occurred where foreign wives were brought and beaten and threatened with deportation if they called the police. This should not happen in this country, ever.
Allow those illegally in the country to enlist in the military in order to obtain a legal status. If the person is willing to serve, I am willing to give them permanent residency.
If a person has a business and is contributing to this country, has been here more than 3 years, paid taxes, has no criminal record, give them a temporary status, then after 10 years allow them to adjust that status to permanent and after 5 more, citizenship.
Establish a real guest worker program for agricultural and other labor intensive industries. Visas would be good for 9 months and reapplied for after 3 months in their respective countries.
Enlist E-verify, but make it where people are given the opportunity to prove their status and not be fired immediately or denied employment…I am a mismatch…because my identity was stolen while I was out of the country. My identity was used to file taxes for jobs I didn’t perform and with fake W2 forms out of Atlanta, it was an identity theft ring, before some say it was an illegal immigrant, it wasn’t.
Enlist protections for those who are witnesses to crimes in this country. Criminals shouldn’t be allowed a free pass due to the immigration status of the witness or victim.
Require that permanent residents be allowed to renew their permanent residency no more than 2 times before they are required to file for citizenship.
Stop deporting veterans for smoking marijuana….sorry, that is just stupid.
Now some of you deport, deport, deport, have no issues with tearing apart families…but I do have issue with it.
Asylum, establish the ability to apply for asylum from a consulate in a neighboring country. Do not require them to enter the country and then apply. Provide documentation and make agreements with these countries that allow them temporary status while they await the adjudication of their asylum claim.
Fire away…
