My Solutions to Illegal Aliens

Crossing the border is an illegal act, but that act is typically the only illegal intention of illegal border crossers. In other words, most of the illegal aliens streaming into the country are coming, not to rob banks, not to leech off of the welfare system, but to come to work for better wages and the hope for a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

Things must be tough at home in Mexico, Nicaragua and other Central American countries. Must be tough in South America too, since you never hear of Colombia complaining about illegal border crossings.

But the amount of illegal aliens in the country are indeed a problem, and one that is so big there are no easy answers. You can’t jail 11 million people. You cant easily deport that many either.

So what do you do?

First, stop the stream of new illegals. You must do this by making the risk of illegal border crossing too high. As it stands now, if they are caught, they are returned and they try again another time. If illegal aliens faced the risk of death, injury or longterm imprisonment, the risk would be so great that they would not cross.

But American law enforcement can’t really shoot to kill. That would be wrong, but it would be effective, and a quick solution. It might even start an international incident. Law enforcement can’t maim illegals either. There aren’t enough jails to hold them all either. So how do you go about increasing the risk?

You threaten the possibility of death by the assurance of capture. You bring home enough National Guard Troops and position them on the border where there is insignificant coverage. You capture any illegals entering the country. All captured illegals are fingerprinted and photographed and tracked by databases for ICE, or Immigration Customs Enforcement, part of Homeland Security.

You conscript them in the war on terror. Make all illegal males of fighting strength and age enlist in the army, and send them to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight against terrorists. Make them disarm IEDs. Make them corpsmen, cooks and support staff of the US Military. After six years of duty, they are eligible for US Citizenship, and America would welcome them into the country not only as fellow citizens, but as heroes. As soldiers, their immediate families would be allowed to remain in the US.

Men and women that cannot cut it as military conscripts can either be transported back across the border, or they will be pressed into service building the wall along the border to prevent other illegal crossers from coming into the country. When they are finished building the wall, they are sent back across the border.

If people are caught attempting to enter the country illegally twice, they are imprisoned for five years, mandatory, and then transported back across the border after their release.

The above steps should curtail new illegal immigrants from trying to enter the country by illegal border crossings. Now, the next step is to increase the risk of those illegal aliens that are already in the US to live here day to day.

You do this by easily allowing illegal immigrants to leave. If they turn themselves in, they get transport out of the country without being fingerprinted or photographed or charged with a crime for entering the country illegally. Its amnesty, but only if they actually leave the country.

Next, you increase the penalties for hiring illegal aliens. You give employers access to the social security database to verify social security numbers are authentic at the time of hiring.

Make it illegal to rent or sell property to anyone that is not authorized to live in the United States. Allow Realtors access to verify social security numbers to ensure authenticity.

Make it illegal to receive public services such as schooling and electricity without proper verification of authorization to live in the United States. Once the risk becomes so great that it is no longer worthwhile to live in the United States, the illegal aliens will agree to leave.