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Between illegal aliens and H1B visa recipients depressing wages, moving factories abroad and free trade agreements, it’s a miracle that Americans have any decent wage paying jobs at all.
For some time now I have felt and expressed the views that if our President would only enforce the laws of our country (as he swore to do) that a great deal of our problems with illegal aliens would become self-correcting. Now that Oklahoma and Arizona are doing just that, we have a darn good example of how this will work.
It’s amazing, but ever since Arizona’s law against employers who hire illegal aliens has gone into effect, the illegal population of Arizona has been decreasing. They are either heading back home to Mexico or over to Texas, California and other states where the same laws do not exist. This shows that enforcing the laws does work.
Now if we could only have a President who would do his sworn duty and enforce the laws of the United States we would see a marked change in the overall illegal population of the United States. We wouldn’t have to think about rounding up millions of illegal aliens and sending them home. They would do the job for us.
The cost of the illegal population in this country is extremely high and getting higher every day. Examples of these costs abound.
- Lower wages across the board for entry level and low skilled workers. Obama was asked about how this has affected the black population in a recent debate and avoided the question – as he does most direct questions – but it has hurt this segment of our population most.
- Huge social costs when it comes to schools, health care and other social benefits. Estimated at $2 billion (with a B!) a year in Los Angeles County alone, imagine what it must be for the country as a whole!
- Enormous costs associated with dealing with the criminal aspects and criminal elements of the illegal immigration population.
- A deterioration of our infrastructure due to rapid population growth that would not have occurred with the massive numbers of illegal immigrants.
- California is in the midst of “another” budget crisis and I would be willing to bet that the California budget would be closer to balanced versus an estimated $16 billion in the hole if the state wasn’t providing for the education and social welfare of millions of illegal aliens and their offspring.
As President I would do one thing to ensure that this situation doesn’t happen again, I would make sure our laws are enforced.
Here’s my simple, four point plan:
First, I would instruct all agencies under my jurisdiction to strictly enforce and apply the rules against hiring illegal immigrant workers.
Second, I would direct that all instances of employing illegal aliens be subject to penalty by fine and jail time – real jail time, not a “country club” jail. It’s real simple for an employer to pay a fine and move on – that’s just a cost of doing business. It’s not so simple to ignore the threat of real jail time in a real criminal jail. No one wants to face that prospect.
Third, I would do whatever was possible to ensure that illegal aliens in this country would not receive any social benefits.
Fourth, I would move to change the Constitution so that only those born of American citizens become citizens of this country upon birth. The founders of our country could not and would not have ever envisioned the fact that there would be hundreds of thousands of babies born each year in the United States hospitals solely so their parents can use them as an excuse to demand to stay here and take benefits from the rest of us.
It’s really that easy. Active and thorough enforcement of our laws will not only solve the current problem, but ensure that it doesn’t happen again in the future.
The current administration, in cahoots with Congress, has gone out of their way to sell our country out to business interests wanting cheaper labor by allowing in millions of illegal alien workers and a rapid expansion of the H1B visa program.
It’s time for a President who sincerely cares about Americans having jobs with a decent wage. I am ready to be that President.
Anything is Possible in America
Frank McEnulty
2008 Independent Presidential Candidate
For some time now I have felt and expressed the views that if our President would only enforce the laws of our country (as he swore to do) that a great deal of our problems with illegal aliens would become self-correcting. Now that Oklahoma and Arizona are doing just that, we have a darn good example of how this will work.
It’s amazing, but ever since Arizona’s law against employers who hire illegal aliens has gone into effect, the illegal population of Arizona has been decreasing. They are either heading back home to Mexico or over to Texas, California and other states where the same laws do not exist. This shows that enforcing the laws does work.
Now if we could only have a President who would do his sworn duty and enforce the laws of the United States we would see a marked change in the overall illegal population of the United States. We wouldn’t have to think about rounding up millions of illegal aliens and sending them home. They would do the job for us.
The cost of the illegal population in this country is extremely high and getting higher every day. Examples of these costs abound.
- Lower wages across the board for entry level and low skilled workers. Obama was asked about how this has affected the black population in a recent debate and avoided the question – as he does most direct questions – but it has hurt this segment of our population most.
- Huge social costs when it comes to schools, health care and other social benefits. Estimated at $2 billion (with a B!) a year in Los Angeles County alone, imagine what it must be for the country as a whole!
- Enormous costs associated with dealing with the criminal aspects and criminal elements of the illegal immigration population.
- A deterioration of our infrastructure due to rapid population growth that would not have occurred with the massive numbers of illegal immigrants.
- California is in the midst of “another” budget crisis and I would be willing to bet that the California budget would be closer to balanced versus an estimated $16 billion in the hole if the state wasn’t providing for the education and social welfare of millions of illegal aliens and their offspring.
As President I would do one thing to ensure that this situation doesn’t happen again, I would make sure our laws are enforced.
Here’s my simple, four point plan:
First, I would instruct all agencies under my jurisdiction to strictly enforce and apply the rules against hiring illegal immigrant workers.
Second, I would direct that all instances of employing illegal aliens be subject to penalty by fine and jail time – real jail time, not a “country club” jail. It’s real simple for an employer to pay a fine and move on – that’s just a cost of doing business. It’s not so simple to ignore the threat of real jail time in a real criminal jail. No one wants to face that prospect.
Third, I would do whatever was possible to ensure that illegal aliens in this country would not receive any social benefits.
Fourth, I would move to change the Constitution so that only those born of American citizens become citizens of this country upon birth. The founders of our country could not and would not have ever envisioned the fact that there would be hundreds of thousands of babies born each year in the United States hospitals solely so their parents can use them as an excuse to demand to stay here and take benefits from the rest of us.
It’s really that easy. Active and thorough enforcement of our laws will not only solve the current problem, but ensure that it doesn’t happen again in the future.
The current administration, in cahoots with Congress, has gone out of their way to sell our country out to business interests wanting cheaper labor by allowing in millions of illegal alien workers and a rapid expansion of the H1B visa program.
It’s time for a President who sincerely cares about Americans having jobs with a decent wage. I am ready to be that President.
Anything is Possible in America
Frank McEnulty
2008 Independent Presidential Candidate
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