SOLUTIONS
Global Perspective:
Immigration is often promoted as a means to solve
global problems such as poverty, corruption, and
overpopulation, but immigration merely shifts global
problems to the U.S. Global problems need to be
solved where the people are at. Politicians and
others avoid the causes of global problems and
dramatically increase U.S. problems when they say
immigration must occur until the forces causing
immigration are eliminated.
Possible solutions include;
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Restructuring of U.S. foreign aid from corporate
welfare and aiding despots with military
armaments to effective techniques such as
sustainable agriculture, women's rights, and
access to contraceptives.
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Increased support for global human rights.
It is important to recognize that human rights
agendas provide the right of emigration, but not
immigration. In other words, people
everywhere should have the right to leave their
country to go to a country that accepts them, but
human rights agendas do not provide the
unconditional right to break the laws of a
sovereign country.
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The U.S. needs to lead by example. Although
the U.S. is often perceived as a model for
economic and military power, democracy, and
individual rights, a multitude of problems such
as inability to stabilize U.S. population,
wasteful consumption, and excessive corporate
power urgently need fixing and are a poor example
for the rest of the world.
National Perspective:
From a national perspective America can get illegal
immigration under control only if the will to do so
exists. Unfortunately that will has not yet
existed. Only until Americans force their
leaders to address the problem will levels be
significantly reduced. Addressing the problem
means illegal aliens should not be rewarded, but, if
they refuse to return home voluntarily, they should
be humanely deported as required by law.
Reduction in the number of illegal aliens should be
by attrition as a result of real enforcement of
immigration laws. Mass deportation is not a
viable approach. See Attrition.
Experts generally recommend the following three major
priorities to control illegal immigration into the
U.S.:
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Interior enforcement, especially laws pertaining
to jobs,
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Border security via surveillance cameras,
screenings and other means, especially the
Arizona border, and,
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Elimination of benefits, such as amnesties,
educational subsidies, driver's licenses, illegal
alien identification cards, and many others.
There is an excellent list of solutions at
Essential Immigration Reform.
It should be understood that illegal migration can
not be reduced without a reduction in legal
immigration. There is a high correlation
between legal immigration and illegal
migration. Legal immigration increases illegal
migration and illegal migration increases legal
immigration. When someone says "I am
against illegal immigration but am for legal
immigration" the reality is that one
significantly drives the other and addressing only
one aspect will not resolve the problem.
The illegal immigration problem can be solved if only
the will to do so exists. A humorous solution,
taken from the mad cow disease investigation, is:
Our government can track a cow born in Canada
almost three years ago, right to the stall where
she sleeps in the state of Washington.
They
can track calves direct to their stalls, but is
unable to locate 11+ million illegal aliens
wandering around our country.
Perhaps the solution
is to give every illegal alien a cow.
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