Because
the Federal government FAILED to
take care of its responsibility
and protect our borders, California and
other states suffer from a tide of illegal immigrants.
Now the illegals are here in our cities, the Feds still won't
seriously address the problem they
created for individual states. So besides with their other financial problems, many States are
almost going BK from covering the additional costs basically forced on
them by the government's inaction.
In this time
of financial crisis, States must take control in a manner that 1) improves
public safety, 2) reduces crime, 3) helps cover the expenses,
4) helps private
enterprise, 5) improves the
States' bottom line and 6) maintains the good that immigrants do
provide by being here.
We might start by making our border even stronger, and
maybe immediately deporting all alien criminals presently in our jails, then:
Using my state California as the example, here's a suggestion:.
1) All DMV offices assign
space for what we will call 'Caligration'. This is defined as creating
legal temporary guest California State residency during the process of
achieving full residency and eventually citizenship in the US. The
logic here is that the US government is doing nothing about alien
registration so we'll bring them in as temporary California residents -
as is perfectly legal for temporary, migrant work visas.
2) In the DMV offices, we give Americans who are
here JOBS to
take care of all the applicants. (Helps our economy by employing
more people.)
3) All applicants must take the California
driving test in Spanish/ English. (Makes roads safer) They PAY for
the test which brings $$$ to the State.
4) Applicants are issued IDs and a special
color, non-voting Alien Guest License that contrasts with regular California drivers'
licenses. These must be renewed every year for another fee.
5) The State uses one of its existing insurance plans,
or creates a new one
to cover the new drivers during their temporary resident classification.
(More $$$ to State)
5) Through a computer link to the IRS, the DMV
supplies the applicant with a legal IRS IT number that corresponds to the
Alien Guest driver's license number. There is another CHARGE for this.
(More $$$ to the State.)
6) Besides address, phone number etc, all applicants
must reveal their employers. There will be a % monthly fee taken out
of the Alien Guest paycheck by the employer for
working here in the US. Of this amount 50% will be kept by the
employer for collecting it, and the rest will be paid to the city
where the Alien Guest lives. The point is that the State gets the
DMV office income to help cover State expenses, and the local businesses
and cities get the other money to cover local services.
7) The Alien Guest driver's license also serves as a medical
ID which will help in tracking medical costs in the guest workers
cities. Since the Alien Guest is contributing to support these
services, he or she must be put into the system for medical and other
assistance so they can get access to healthcare for their families.
8) Applicants must return to DMV, or possibly to
an office in their residence cities where they are taught about the
services available to them, also basic hygiene, use of 911, parenting,
citizenship, location and use of medical clinics, and other training
including of course learning English, for another FEE and this brings
more $$$ to the local communities.
9) Cities could hold classes in local area Mexican
or other restaurants to learn the items mentioned above. The
restaurants might give a special discount dish as an incentive, and
everyone could have a great time while working to get into the system.
They could also learn English in these 'fun' locations. Applicants pay to learn,
more Americans get jobs to teach them and more money goes into the
community.
10) Start Federally approved citizenship courses in a lot
more locations so they are easier to get to.
(Fee)
11) Impose a % fee on all money being sent to Mexico. USPS to collect $$$ for States by virtue of a new Federal law.
Since the States and not the Feds are presently carrying the burden of
illegal alien costs, all money collected goes to the state in which it
is collected. The Feds are getting taxes from their wages anyway.
12) A copy of the Alien Guest application is mailed to Mexico Immigration so
the applicant can get a visa and begin the process of legal entry to the US
without leaving the US, job, and family.
13) Another purpose of getting a visa from the Mexican
side is, in
co-operation with Mexican authorities, to generate a background check/
affidavit on all applicants so we are not importing criminals.
14) Since this could provide many new jobs in
the state as well as 100s of millions of
dollars a year in income to the State and millions more to local cities, it is now in the State's interest
to make sure all Alien Guests first of all become registered, get their
papers and then stay employed.
15) We create a Job Resource
site on line and hire employment counselors to staff DMV offices or set
them up in conjunction with local cities.
Employers log on to the web site as in a forum and post work for Spanish speaking
workers including seasonal farm work.
16) We must provide a cash incentive to all
employers to push their undocumented workers to become legal and get
into the system. Allowing each employer to keep half the monthly
Alien Guest Worker fee percentage gives the employer an opportunity to
profit from their efforts to get the aliens legal.
17) And finally, we become the 'coyotes'
importing immigrants into the United States. Instead of smugglers
bringing illegals here and having many die on the way and the rest sent
back after being fleeced of much money by the coyotes, let the US set up
border stations and charge workers to come into our country.
Instead of the smugglers making the money, let the States where the
illegals enter make the money, like 1000.00 per head. It's happening anyway.
It's a major law enforcement problem anyway. So let's get rid of
the law enforcement problem, get the workers we need, and make money all
at the same time.
The United States is not in a major population
expansion right now. It needs immigrants to maintain itself.
Let's change our approach to how we let people come here to work, and
being good capitalists, let's all make money in the process, help the new
workers find and do jobs no-one else will do, reward the people who hire and need
them, support the cities where they live, the States they come into, and
all the
Feds need to do is help us set it up and then kind of stay out of the way for now and let us bring in the
money that helps us pay for the problem the Feds created.
