DE-HYPENATE AMERICA – PART 2

Back to the other post. So what is the issue with immigration?

I am not an immigration expert, but here are my assumptions:
We regularly allow people into the country legally, so there must be some legal procedure for entry
After that there must be some application for citizenship or at least the right to continue to live and work in the USA.
It must be pretty complicated or onerous, because so many people can’t follow the procedure

Is that what immigration reform about? Making it less complicated? Or there some National Board of Immigration Review whose job it is to let in some and keep out the “riff-raff?” And who decides who’s “riff-raff” anyway?

Here’s my plan. Immigration reform made easy:
Everybody is welcome to the party. It’s a bring your own. You have to contribute or leave. Do what you do, cut hair, hammer nails, file nails, be a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or computer programmer if you want; hey, it’s America. You could even be in the mortgage business, if you can’t find anything better (or legitimate).

No unreasonable waiting periods. A background check and proof of a means to support yourself such as a job or a responsible legal US dweller or company to agree to sponsor you. If you have a substantial net worth, don’t even bother with the job, just bring the money and invest it here in legitimate endeavors.

A national registry and ID card. If you have one, you stay, if we catch you without one, we throw you out. Repeated offenders who keep sneaking back in should be thrown in jail. Or in the alternative, they could earn their legal entry by serving in the military or working on some other national priority that we can’t seem to find the labor to do. National priority does not include cutting somebody’s lawn.

You can get your registration if:
You have not broken any laws that would be enforced in the USA.
For example, if you were arrested in an Islamic Theocracy for being Christian, it wouldn’t count. Other things like being arrested for “economic” crimes such as profiteering in a communist country would probably be OK, too. I would recommend that we even tolerate arrests for not paying parking tickets or other “minor” offences. But no felons allowed. Arrests for assault, rape, theft, murder, and other generally violent or antisocial behavior would keep you out.

You agree to become a contributing member of American society within some reasonable period of time.

You lose your registration and right to become a citizen if:

You are convicted of a felony
You cease to be a contributing member of society or fail to pay taxes (i.e. no more working off the books)

Now that unreasonable barriers to entry are eliminated, and “American” is your new nationality, remember that you or your parents left some shit-hole country because it sucked, and DE-HYPHENATE.