My plan for immigration

A reader to my other blog asked, “What’s your suggestion to control illegal immigration since you hate amnesty so much?” First to clarify, it’s not the amnesty I hate, it’s the violation of the law, and our politicians acceptance of it. Either it is a good law, and should be enforced, or it is a bad law and should be repealed. Providing amnesty to violators of the law every 21 years makes absolutely no sense.
As far as what I would do if I were to be able to determine immigration policy for a day?

1. I would require the government to tie the Social Security/IRS/DHS systems together so that when they get a single SSN is shown working at 37 different companies in a dozen states at the same time... they track it down and arrest the 36 people using purchased documents to work.
2. I would also require employers to utilize the Pilot system to verify the validity of Social Security numbers that workers provide to ensure they are valid. (This system is currently voluntary.)
3. I would increase the number of “undercover” agents that would go out and look for work, posing as illegals, and arrest/incarcerate those who knowingly and willingly hire them.
4 Companies found with unauthorized workers would be audited for compliance, and would be fined $100,000 per administrative “offense”. If it bankrupts the company, then they should have followed the procedures. If a company has a second offenses, the appropriate person/people (i.e. anyone who should have had knowledge of the practice) should be incarcerated.
5. All cities that currently have either written “sanctuary” ordinances, or implicitly provide “sanctuary” would have all federal funding removed. Additionally, the population of that city would no longer be counted towards any state per capita allocations. You don’t cooperate, we don’t fund. Look at Los Angeles right now, BEGGING for the feds assistance in combating their gang problems. Why? because their police can’t even ask people who they KNOW are gang members, illegally present what their status is, or alert the feds about them. (Note: Statistics say that 48% of gang members are illegal aliens)
6. Those convicted of transporting people into the country are felons, five years in a federal penitentiary.
7. You take away the jobs, you enforce the law, and you take away the motive for coming, and 75% will go home willingly.
8. I also WOULD require border enforcement, and I would also include a guest worker program. 9. The guest workers would not pay into social security, nor would they be eligible for benefits, however, a similar amount would be withheld from the employer and employee for payment into the administration and management of the guest worker program and into a worker healthcare program.
10. Guest workers would be pulled from world wide, not simply from our neighbors, and would be based upon the relative “poverty” rate of those countries. i.e. the poorest countries in the world would be permitted more “workers” than the middle and richer countries.
11. To obtain guest workers, you must PROVE that you have not been able to hire Americans at a standard pay rate for the area and for that job skill, and you would be required to pay the market average rate + health care benefits for the guest worker.
12. Guest workers would be eligible for up to two year contracts, and direct family members only (spouse/children) would be permitted entrance at the same time. Children born to guest workers in the US would NOT be awarded US citizenship.

Most importantly… in fact, we wouldn’t need any more laws on the books to do it….
I would ENFORCE the law!
It’s actually very similar to what the US Senate is proposing at this time, except that I would actually enforce the law, and I would not reward those who broke the law.