Andylusion
Platinum Member
Well I'll be damned. You hit the nail on the head there. And, while I have a lot of empathy for guys like Ray who rent apartments, we could require renters present a current visa, green card or passport/proof of citizenship when singing a lease.If they ACTUALLY wanted to fix immigration, a wall would be redundant. They would leave on their own.
Enforce the laws, punish employers harshly and take away all their entitlements.
BOOM
They wont stay if they are starving, dumb and sleeping in the streets.
First thing that has to go, is citizen by birth. Citizenship needs to be tied to the citizenship of the parents.
Otherwise, everyone will keep coming here to pop out babies, and then "hey my son is a US citizen! You can't kick him out, and I'm his parent, you can't break up families!"
Until that is changed, everything else will only have a mild effect.
One thing that has always irritated me with the whole immigration aspect is that, nearly all these immigrants from everywhere, live in countries that provide extremely cheap, or even free, education.
Am I right? I could be wrong. But from what I have read, if you are a Mexican citizen, tuition is free at Mexico University, and any public university.
Right? And, while I haven't spent the time looking it up, my wild stab in the dark says they likely have an English class.
We all know that anyone with any degree... in anything... is fast tracked to be a US citizen.
So if these people want to be US citizens, and live in the US, why don't they just go get a degree, and then come to the US? They wouldn't end up being burger flippers at the Whooper shop, when they get here.
I was thinking maybe they can't afford it, but it's free! How can you not afford free? And they wouldn't have to get a degree in something difficult. You can get a degree is almost anything. Anything at all, and you'll be put to the front of the line for citizenship.