Send the Illegals Home

I would like to suggest President Obama appoint his 30 something-ish Czar.

The “Get the Illegals out of Dodge Czar.”

Job Description: If they are not here through a legal nationalization program – send them home.

Too un-politically correct? Too bad. While this whole legislative mess called health care reform (which is nothing more than a code phrase for driving the private insurance companies out of business and instituting a single payer national program) is being proposed, no one is addressing the need for tort reform or the closing of emergency rooms across the nation, or the overcrowding of our public school system or the draining of our programs from the poor by the poor who should not be here to begin with.

To coincide with Obama's health care push - the proposal of Amnesty (or citizenship without qualification) is about to hit the table once again. This is nothing new – it's the same thing – different President...and instead of doing the same thing, Mr. Barack (CHANGE) Obama who enjoys employing “Czars” so much could actually offer a little HOPE by appointing someone to enforce immigration laws. This one could actually be useful.

We should not be a sympathetic nation when it comes to illegal aliens. We should not make the excuse that illegals do the jobs that no one else wants to do – or that because they pay taxes they should stay. The taxes they pay (and not all do) are offset by the services they receive. As our nation draws closer to a 10% unemployment rate there is even more of a need to enforce the immigration laws. Citizens need jobs and the major news stations have all covered stories on “tent cities” popping up throughout the country. Illegals are still here and working and for those that have been forced into tent cities – those are jobs that these people could use to feed their families and perhaps had the citizens had them earlier – could have saved their homes as well.

Yesterday in a conversation with a fellow neighbor who has the luck enough to have her home cleaned by someone else, I learned the one of the two Brazilian ladies who cleaned her house was leaving. She was going back to Brazil. After 5 years here – and 2 child births – she's heading “home.” That's not the only time I have heard this lately. There are plenty of articles discussing the massive one way ticket “out” boom going on throughout the country. Illegals are leaving. They are leaving because they can no longer make money here and that is another reason that we should not even begin to contemplate Amnesty OR leniency with illegals in our country. You do not see China opening doors to let people come in a raid their wealth.

For those who think illegals do jobs no one else will do, The NY Times recently ran a story on the massive scale of illegals leaving the country and as the NY Times tends to do – it had a slightly left view that somehow Americans should feel bad about this. Quoting from the article: “We came here to save enough money to buy a house” in Brazil, Mr. Borges said, recalling the early weeks when the family slept in a friend’s basement and he worked in construction for the first time. They expected to return to Brazil after two years.

Instead, he found his inner entrepreneur. He started a plumbing and construction business that soon employed upward of seven compatriots, paid taxes and helped build name-brand hotels in three states.

But in 2005, as the construction boom began to go bust, larger companies, prompted by labor unions, started to demand working papers, he said. And when his crew could not produce them, they were let go.”

Translation: Your lax international travel laws allowed me and my family to come to your country and stay long enough to earn money and pay a few dollars in taxes. During that time I successfully managed to break your laws by forming a plumbing and construction business which no one bothered to verify was legal, and I made money until people started checking paperwork. Since they are doing that now, I can longer find work so I am going back to Brazil which was always my intention and taking my money with me. So long and THANKS – and I hope no one gets killed via a gas leak in the plumbing I installed which may, over time, cause a massive explosion.

The Boston Globe (also slightly left leaning and owned by the NY Times) ran an article on a bright student “Filipe” who graduated from high school recently and had received a scholarship to the University of Massachusetts. When filling out admission paperwork, he learned he wasn't legally in the United States and he no longer qualified for in-state tuition rates or the scholarship so now he has a huge loan and is facing deportation. Advocates scream that we should not punish the children for their parent's mistakes. I am politically incorrect on this too. While I certainly have empathy to Filipe's situation... I am not at all one who thinks the State of Massachusetts needs to over look his residency status OR that the Federal Government should not be knocking on his parents door. He's received an education in this country and taken up a desk at the same cost per pupil as the citizen's child he sat next to. That cost is huge, and children pay the price for our education of illegals in this country via over crowded schools and increasing student to teacher ratios.

Filipe's parents have worked in this country and been here for a decade and he's just finding out their illegal aliens?

Here's your plane ticket.

Lastly, the United States prison system is becoming increasingly populated by illegal aliens thus giving false creditability to the idea that most illegals are law abiding people looking for work and paying taxes. Way back in 2004 Steven Camorata, Director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies said: “roughly 17 percent of the prison population at the federal level are illegal aliens. That's a huge number since illegal aliens only account for about 3 percent of the total population. INS and FBI statistics released information in 2006 that 29 percent of the prisons in State and Federal prisons were illegals and at a cost of 1.6 billion dollars a year.

Solution: If they have committed a violent crime, the victim and/or their family has a right to see them serve their time – even if it means at the US tax payers expense - for the rest of the life or completion of the sentence. If they are released, they should be picked up and driven to the airport. Free ticket home – see ya later.

If it isn't a violent crime – no trial – just send them home – family and all. No more sympathy. No more "America" through the back door.

STRENGTHEN the border and follow up on the travel visas.

America should broaden the nationalization process to make more citizenship attainable LEGALLY and perhaps loosen the nationalization process to allow for faster citizenship.

However, there is no place for illegals in this country just as there is no place for them in any other country in the world. Yes, America should be the land of opportunity for all, but not the land you sneak into, earn a fast buck and then return to the place you really want to call home.

It's time to take back our country.