Question:
Former Incompetent Agency Director Forms Immigration Reform Taskforce?
Answer:
The US immigration system is "broken" and needs to be overhauled in order
better to address threats to national security, tackle lengthening visa
delays for US corporations and help undocumented workers gain legal status,
according to a new report.
The report, based on findings of a taskforce created by the Chicago Council
on Foreign Relations, seeks to put immigration reform at the heart of the
presidential campaign and urges the next president to make comprehensive
immigration reform a priority in 2005. The system is "failing to meet the
social, economic and security demands of the nation," it concludes.
"This report is a call for leadership and action, and in particular a plea
for presidential leadership," said Doris Meissner, former US immigration
commissioner and co-chair of the taskforce.
The report concludes: "Without action the contradictions and pressures will
only increase, as the undocumented population grows, more people die at the
border, families remain separated, processing backlogs increase, workers are
exploited and certain industries decry labour shortages, and potential
terrorists try to take advantage of systemic vulnerabilities."
The setting up of the taskforce was prompted by the economic and social
tensions caused by rapid immigration into the midwestern states.
"Immigration is often discussed as a coastal phenomenon. This mistakenly
overlooks the heartland of the country," said the co-chairs of the
taskforce, Jim Edgar, a former governor of Illinois, and Alejandro Silva,
president of Evans Foods, and Ms Meissner.
They noted that over the last decade 21 per cent of the Midwest's population
growth has been caused by immigrant arrivals.
Nine of 12 Midwest states had foreign-born populations that grew faster than
the national average during the 1990s, while several grew at more than
double the national average.
It jumped by 164 per cent in Nebraska, 130 per cent in Minnesota, and 114
per cent in Kansas.
This influx is causing significant integration problems for state and local
governments.
The report cites Minneapolis/St Paul and its 60,000 Hmong immigrants from
Laos, the largest urban concentration of Hmong refugees in the US and the
fastest growing segment of Minnesota's population.
"Their numbers are expected to increase, as 15,000 more have been granted
refugee status. . . many of the Hmong have faced great difficulty in
learning English and becoming self sufficient," it says.
The economic impact of immigration is also a critical concern. Ms Meissner
said: "50 per cent of new entrants into the US labour market in the last
decade have been new immigrants, not native Americans."
The report calls for more resources to address the backlog of
immigration-related applications, which have now reached 6.2m. "This is
undermining credibility in, and support for, the immigration system. They
separate families for years or even decades," it says.
It also estimates that there are more than 9.3m established undocumented
persons in the US, of whom about 6m are working.
"The fact that undocumented workers continue to gain entry and employment
despite a decade of heightened border enforcement demonstrates a mismatch
between domestic demand and supply. . . The mechanisms of the US immigration
system are out of touch with current realities and unable to adjust to
economic and demographic trends."
Mr Edgar said: "it is important that these 9m come above ground, and we
think, post-9/11, we should know who they are. We also need justice for
these individuals so they don't have to live in the shadows."
The taskforce calls for reforms, including visa portability to reduce
employer control, an earned legalisation approach that enables the existing
undocumented population to gain legal status in the US, and a lifting of the
cap on business visas.
The solution is very simply. ICE could take 100 illegals each day around
the country and shoot them. After a week, all of the illegal aliens will
have left and no more will try to enter.
you're right, the solution is simple. unfortunately, you've got the
wrong one. First, ICE agents aren't up to the complex job you suggest.
Kill 100 a day?! Dunderheaded ICE agents couldn't find their way
around a postage stamp let alone the U.S., and by the time they
managed to get their guns loaded and aimed, all the illegal little
children and women would have run away and hid.
Second, most immigration laws are not prosecuted as crimes, but as
civil violations. Its a bad idea to let federal agents roam around the
U.S. killing people who violate civil laws. The simple solution to
illegal immigration is an obvious one, and you missed it. The U.S.
should get rid of people like you. People like you don't realize that
killing "100 illegals" a day won't stop illegal immigration. Stupid
rules and regulations constructed to control entry to the U.S. only
create "illegal" entries. So long as people live in places where they
have less than no economic chance, they will accept any risk, even
living in a community with people like you, to live in a place where
they have an economic chance.
Oh, here is a bright one. This one doesn't even know how to use a news
reader.
Hint, hint, muertos cerebrales: I didn't post that. And not only was it
not me who posted it, I totally disagree with the person who did post it. I
think we should up the ante to about 1,000 a day, bare minimum.
Interpretation: The corporations want to hire foreigners instead of
Americans and the U.S. immigration system needs to be "overhauled" so an
unlimited number of foreigners can replace American workers, per the wants
of U.S. Corporations. Also, those who illegally enter the U.S. should be
rewarded.
Notice how the anarchists have co-opted (coopted?) the term "immigration
reform." It used to mean reducing illegal immigration and now it means
increasing it by making what is illegal, legal.
Interpretation: Amnesty for illegal aliens and unlimited legal immigration
in the future. This is not "leadership" so much as the elimination of
borders and pissing on the meaning of citizenship.
Interpretation: The government has refused to enforce the rule of law, has
allowed open borders and massive illegal immigration, so Doris Meissner
calls on the people who have failed miserably at their sworn duty to uphold
the Constitution and laws of the United States to use smoke and mirrors to
make it appear that something is about to change. She is calling for
anarchy, open borders and uncontrolled massive immigration into the United
States.
So her solution is to increase the level of immigration and to legalize
illegal aliens.
Which is exactly the task force's recommendation, i.e., to bring in ever
more immigrants. How ironic that they portray their proposed solution as
the current problem.
Nobody forced foreigners to leave their families behind. They chose to
leave their families behind. This is just another excuse to reward criminal
behavior and have open borders and unlimited immigration, which will reduce
our wages to Third World levels and turn us into a Third World Latin
American dictatorship.
No. It demonstrates an incompetent government that is fighting wars all
over the world while showing itself totally incapable of controlling who
enters our nation.
Did Vincente Fox write this piece? This sounds like propaganda emanating
from either the Vatican or Mexico City.
Haven't we heard this all before. The Mexican Consulate must have written
this article and submitted it to un-American traitors for publication.
Pure propaganda coming directly from Vincente Fox and the Mexican puppet
traitors who work for Mexico to undermine the sovereignty and national
security of the United States. The people who support this crap should be
dragged to Camp Delta in Cuba and treated as detainees.
The only way the politicians are going to do their job and protect the
American people is for us to make them think they might loose their
job. The best way to do this is to get enough people complaining about
what they are doing or not doing. The Federation for American
Immigration Reform is trying to do this by making it easier for people
to communicate with their congressman.
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