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Been watching lawyers debate whether illegal aliens have rights.
The obvious answer is, yes they do.
The more subtle answer is, until they broke the law.
Even more subtle is the question of if we can just start shooting them without regard to whatever rights they might have had before they broke the law without convicting them of it?
That whole innocent until proven guilty thing makes me think that we accord anyone we suspect of being here illegally all of the rights a citizen or legal alien has right up until they're convicted.
After all, if they're innocent of being an illegal alien, they've never broken the law and therefore didn't surrender their rights when they crossed the frontier.
Something I do want to see more of from the government is sending the convicts back to where they came from even if the crime of being here is merely a misdemeanor.
The problem would solve itself if a couple of, small, things were done.
First: Make proving your legal status a prerequisite for receiving any and all government aid. I had to provide such proof to get Real ID to keep my driver's license and carry permit. To demand less of non-citizens seems unequal protection under the law.
Second: Tax remittances at an extortionate rate. They've no real rights, and it's nothing that citizens are doing... Bonus, this will also discourage things like H1B visa seekers form hitting our shores and displacing citizens for the same job.
That's really it. Stop crime from paying and criminals tend to stop. It's an age old solution.
Putting a fine on businesses who have employees who cannot prove they are here legally also works. We will then find out if there really are jobs Americans won't do or if they're just unwelcome to apply as long as there's a supply of illegals to do them.
I've always thought that criminalizing the hiring illegal aliens (who are prone to keeping quiet if pay or other benefits are withheld) was the way to go. If the business owner refuses to hire the illegal, the illegal alien finds less incentive to be here in the 1st place and leaves on their own.
ReplyDeleteCurrently, the hiring of illegals appears to be priority, even over U.S. citizens. The bridge workers who were killed in Baltimore bridge collapse appear to be mainly illegal aliens - I don't think that was a coincidence. I'm guessing unions can also benefit from new workers becoming members. Far less prone to causing any trouble, just do the job and get paid.
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Employing illegal immigrants IS against the law. Very against the law. Just the Feds don't, you know, actually follow the law and haven't for a long time.
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