Four steps to solve the immigration problem

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Four steps to solve the immigration problem
July 17, 2011|By Al Shore

Regarding the recent Sun Sentinel immigration column by Mary Sanchez:
She says we should turn our heads on the 11 million illegal immigrants in this country and let them stay. What kind of message does this thinking send? What does she think we should do with the next 11 million illegal immigrants and the next 11 million after that?
Her liberal naivete to the costs, burden, injustices and crime that come with illegal immigration is unbelievable. This is money that could be better directed to the benefit of impoverished legal citizens.
Most immigrants who have gone through the arduous efforts and costs to be here legally are outraged by the blind eye the federal government is taking on this issue.
States are being forced to pass their own immigration legislation because the Obama administration, in an effort to pander to the Latino vote, refuses to enforce federal immigration regulations that are already on the books.
If you take the politics out of it, the illegal immigration situation is pretty simple; particularly if you don't gloss over the part about it being illegal.
Here's a four-step program that the federal government should implement without 2,500 pages of political garbage and earmarks. If the federal government doesn't have the spine to do it, then the states should continue to implement it individually until the current federal politicians are replaced.
Dramatically slow the influx of illegal immigrants by securing the borders with physical impediments (fences, etc.) and troops.
Impose strong penalties, including significant fines and jail time, on businesses that employ illegal workers. Let there be a six-month moratorium whereby employers can get rid of the illegal workers.
As jobs become available, by displacing illegal workers, offer the jobs to the able-bodied U.S. citizens collecting welfare or unemployment subsidies. Those who are provided job opportunities would be taken off of the public dole whether they accept the work or not. Also, some jobs could be filled by minimum-risk, work-release prisoners.
Begin the process of rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants. Let them come through the immigration process legally, the same as our ancestors did. Change the law so that any of their children would be deported with their parents, regardless of where they were born.
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