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Why do we have 11 million illegal immigrants and what do we do with them?

Feb 13, 2012

My sixth open letter to Mr. Mitt Romney on immigration

Dear Mr. Romney,

Why do we have as many illegal immigrants as we have, not five times less or five times more? Our borders are so porous that almost anybody who wants to come, could come. Why have only 11 million immigrants (or whatever the real number is) arrived and stayed illegally? Why was it not 1 million or 21 million? We have as many illegal immigrants as we have because this is the number of workers that the economy needs. If we had no quotas limiting legal immigration, if we just registered and ran a background check on every foreigner who found employment in the U.S., we would have the same number of foreigners working here as we have now, but all of them would be here legally. We would be in control; we would know who they are and what they are doing.
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Tagged amnesty, bureaucrats, free market, housing market, illegal immigrants, immigration laws, legal immigration, Mitt Romney, politicians, recession, seven letters, un-American | Leave a comment

Chasing illegal immigrants

Feb 9, 2012

My fourth open letter to Mr. Mitt Romney on immigration

Dear Mr. Romney,

We can effectively seal the borders. The Soviet Union did it, so it is doable, likely with the same outcome. We can easily identify most of the illegal immigrants here simply by compiling records already available to the government: social security, tax numbers issued to illegal immigrants by the IRS, bank records, and school registries. Then, get them deported on short notice. Stalin was able to arrange forced relocations of millions of people, so we know that it can be done. We do not do it because: first, it would turn the country into a Soviet-style totalitarian police state. Second, it would hurt the economy. Therefore, the federal Government is almost literally bipolar in its acts on immigration enforcement. On one end it tries to follow the law; on the other, it knows that doing this truly is inhuman, is un-American, and that it hurts the economy.
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Tagged 14th Amendment, anti-immigration laws, DREAM Act, George Bush, illegal immigrants, immigration enforcement, immigration laws, middle class, minimum wage, Mitt Romney, no sense of decency, Ronald Reagan, seven letters, Soviet Union, un-American | 3 Comments

As it is. Can we reform immigration just by calling things as they are?

Apr 28, 2010

Heralding the upcoming legislation battle about immigration reform, in her column in the Washington Post, Tamar Jacoby gives us an inside look into the process.

Opting for “comprehensive immigration reform”, Ms. Jacoby carefully avoids defining what it means. As proponents of increased immigration and granting legal status to undocumented immigrants, claim the term “comprehensive”, one may only guess that this is the objective of Ms. Jacoby. However, one can imagine resolving our immigration crisis just by capturing and forcefully deporting all presently undocumented immigrants, by militarizing the borders that even a mouse could not sneak in, and by using Arizona style police methods in chasing and removing those who still manage to come in. This approach, formally, could be called comprehensive as well.
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Tagged amnesty, bureaucrats in Washington, Capitol Hill, family reunion, Great Depression of 1929, illegal immigration, Immigration Act of 1924, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, immigration laws, immigration policy, immigration reform, labor market, partisan politics, Soviet Union, Tamar Jacoby, undocumented immigrants | Leave a comment

Bill O’Reilly, a socialist in denial

Dec 12, 2009

In an emotional burst, Bill O’Reilly condemned Dick Wolf and NBC for the “Law and Order” episode portraying a mentally disturbed person who turned his anger to killing the children of illegal immigrants, so called “anchor babies” in the jargon of anti-immigration fanatics. In particular, Bill O’Reilly was outraged by a brief conversation where one of the characters blamed the main media outlets, including the Bill O’Reilly show, for creating an anti-immigration atmosphere, in which sick minds come up with ideas like killing immigrant children.
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The immigration debate is not about immigration

Dec 9, 2008

The economy needs more workers than can come here legally, so they have been arriving illegally. The most logical solution would be to adjust the number of available workers’ visas as soon as the problem started showing up. This way we would have much greater control over who is coming and living among us.
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