Get real about illegals

Illegal immigrants are viewed by some as great people filling a necessary role who happened to commit the single crime of illegally entering our country.

What? After entering the US illegally, they take jobs illegally, drive without licenses, drive without insurance, possess illegal credentials, live with multiple families in single family residences, attempt to help others enter the US illegally... The list could go on ad infinitum. The fact is they entered our country criminally and continue to live as criminals.

But don't they take jobs we don't want? Are we unwilling to be carpenters? Are we unwilling to be landscapers? Don't we have a long tradition of working in restaurants and hotels? Didn't we work for generations as janitors, nannys, and ditch diggers? The fact is we are willing to do all forms of labor when we are paid a legal wage with legal benefits and protections.

Ronald Reagan gave amnesty to about 3 million illegals and declared that would be the end of illegal immigration. That's laughable! Now we have an estimated 10 million illegals. The reasons are obvious. American business hires illegals to avoid the responsibilities of abiding by labor laws. That's a felony, but they do it with impugnity. Nobody is prosecuted.

If you make the current illegal hoard legitimate they will have to abide by the same labor laws as American citizens. The businesses benefitting from illegal labor will be forced to hire a new crop of undocumented persons sneaking into our country. We can stop illegal immigration now by severely prosecuting businesses that hire the undocumented.

If you use pirated software the penalty can be as severe as $100,000 per instance. Let's get similar stiff penalties for illegal labor, say $1,000 per man day for hiring undocumented workers.

Another thing,-- the first time one enters our country illegally it is a misdemeanor. The second time it is a felony. With one huge problem: we repatriate captured illegals without prosecution. Therefore the second, third, fourth,... time they enter and are captured it is still legally the first time. There's a simple fix. When you capture an illegal immigrant you give them a choice: plead guilty to illegal trespass of our border and be repatriated to your country or go to jail and face conviction. Either way you then have a record of illegal immigration and the next time you come in it is a felony. That makes you eligible for a citizen's arrest, and private citizens monitoring our borders could then act with some legal teeth.

We are engaged in class warfare in America. It is the old conflict of management versus labor. Illegal immigration and outsourcing are two powerful tools management is using to get the upper hand. Labor is letting them to get away with it. Arise, common citizens and workers! Take back our borders and put people in office whole will act in your best interests instead of the special interests of big business. We can do it, and protect our domestic labor force it what is truly a class warfare against the common laborer.