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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Rob, there is nothing in the law about what type of work the illegals were 
doing.  The only qualification was length of stay and that it had to have 
begun no later than Jan. 1, 1982.  Well, there were also stipulations such 
as no criminal behavior while in the U.S.  There was nothing about 
agriculture as a qualifier.

Immigration IS legal and it IS regulated.  The problem is politics and who 
gets to decide what part is regulated and where and when.

The problem with *our* immigration law is 1) it is not uniformly enforced; 
and 2) how the sponsoring countries handle their end.  There isn't a 
blooming thing we can do about that and passing more laws here isn't going 
to change how the governments, such as El Salvordore handles who can and 
can't get here.

The parts of the law that aren't enforced are sponsorship and health.  Half 
the time a criminal background check isn't done and is supposed to be.

personally, I think if it was tied to the aid the U.S. sends to other 
countries, then we might be able to clean up the sending end which is where 
a ton of the problems begin.

And, like everything else, immigration is kinda like little kids.  Everyone 
wants everything now.  Everyone has a sob story.  Everyone isn't being 
treated fairly.  And the list goes on.  The ability of this country to take 
care of other people is finite.  The number of jobs is finite.  The room for 
homes is finite.  WATER is obviously finite but people in other countries 
think we should simply open the borders and let everyone in . . . NOW.

This country is a mess.  We have enough poverty level folks to almost 
qualify as a third world country ourselves.  We need to clean up our own 
backyard FIRST!  And, we need to enforce the laws we already had before we 
worry about making new ones.  Hey, I say we enforce the Immigration Reform 
Law of 1986.  It dings employers who knowingly hire illegals.

Lynda
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we 
are
to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."  Theordore
Roosevelt, 1918.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
> Our laws do not work. We as a country like to put laws into place and then
> say "if we just enforce the law". An enforced law that does not work is a
> waste of time. Look at our history with laws on prostitution and drugs. 
> Our
> immigration law is similar. It's based on a look at immigration through 
> rose
> colored glasses many years ago. It's not based on today.
>
> The fact that they are able to put $10,000 together, is amazing. Everyone
> pitches in, extended family and family here. Mostly family already here 
> (and
> mostly legal). Then when they come here, they pay it back.
>
> Imagine if the family here was able to sponsor the immigrant legally.
>
> What I am saying is like prostitution and drugs, make it legal and 
> regulate
> it.
>
> >
>
> > We have an immigration policy that worked quite well for years.  People 
> > got
> > sponsors and had to have a job waiting.  It is NOT realistic to think we
> > can
> > cure the worlds problems.  The U.S. has reached a saturation point and it
> > is
> > time to rethink the whole speech on the statue of liberty.
> >
> > >
>
> No, it does not work well and it has not. I remember in Tampa in the 
> 1980s,
> the Reagan years and there was an amnesty for illegals that had worked
> in agriculture for a period of time. The owner of the restaurant I worked 
> at
> had at least 20 illegals working there. They were important to his 
> business
> and he took good care of them. He paid orange grove owner buddies of his
> thousands for false paperwork saying that those people had been working in
> the groves.
>
> I assume that this went on all over the country. A bunch of Reagan
> conservatives made thousands of dollars on a program that they "despised".
>
> Redoing our immigration law so that we can manage the influx of people 
> along
> with securing our borders will make a non-issue of the strain of illegals 
> on
> our economy.
>
> Rob - Va
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