Migration issues
Immigration (legal/illegal/refugees)
Personally and Systematically I believe we should set up a United Nations Buffer Zone (patrolled by United Nations peacekeeper force) between the US and Mexico along the whole US-Mexico border on the Mexico side of the US-Mexico border to help would be illegal migrants
Personally and Systematically I'd also want the US implement the Grenze 2000 plan (detailed here) to have sensors and detectors replace the entire current US-Mexico barrier. That system would automate and digitise the whole border control process . There'd be no required physical card indexes and no guards would be required at passport control.. The Visas, access rights and other things would all be completed by a centrally networked PC. This system would include radio beacons, vibration detectors, infrared barriers, electrical surge protectors, and radio frequency reconnaissance equipment.
Personally and Systematically I feel we need to clear the migration backlogs before we think about doing migration reform:
The backlog of 600,000-plus fugitive deportee cases. The backlog of 4 million immigration applications of all kinds. The backlog of an estimated 100,000 FBI background checks for legal immigrant applicants. The disappearance of 111,000 citizenship applications. The above numbers are from 2007 but i am sure the numbers are similar to that today.
The Washington Post reported in 2007 that those loads of unprocessed paperwork was growing. Over a few hundred thousand immigrants who come here legally continue to wait for FBI background checks before they become naturalized. This backlog of the legal migrants' naturalization applications (and other benefits), from 2005-2007 for example doubled to 329,160.
Personally and Systematically , I believe that the US thus should fix the above mess first before allowing millions of seasonal migrant worker applications to be submitted. We also should clear the obstacles to a Path of Citizenship for legal migrants who followed the rules before we start impelementing the reauthorized 1986 IRCA for illegals. Let's give legal migrants priority over illegal migrants.
Personally and Systematically , my views on Interior enforcement meshes with the founder of this movements views on interior enforcement with a touch of Bernie Sanders view on that
Personally and Systematically once the backlogs are cleared , I personally and systematically support a 1986 IRCA type immigration reform reapplied today:
Amnesty to vast majority of illegal migrants who arrived in the US more than 5 years ago and who have continuously lived in the US since then while penalizing them with back taxes, fines and admission of guilt along with proof they hadn't done any crimes since their illegal arrival in the US along with some minimal knowledge about U.S. history and government and the English language. This would also legalize certain seaonable undocumented migrants more than current migration reform bills
This mass legalization might have the unintended negative drawbacks of causing now legalized migrants who are retired or when they retire to move back to Mexico and Central America . So if we need to keep that in mind and allowing them to remove any hurdles for reporting illegal. igrants in their own community (since there would be no fear of them being deported since they're now legal).
But on the flip side, this would bring a lot of illegal migrants into the light immediately and allow them to have no excuses for not becoming Americans.
To build upon the IRCA act, we should strengthened the sanctions and penalties on businesses who hire or recruit illegal immigrants knowingly along with closing all loopholes. ICE should be arresting bossees in the US who knowingly hire illegals as much as Ice focuses on deporting illegals.
Moreover welfare or unemployed legal US citizens should replace illegals as the ideal workers for jobs that usually hire illegals (including jobs in growing sectors). This should be done through encouraging those unemployed legal citizens and pro illegal migrant buisnesses to mutually agree to that.
The IRCA reduced illegal immigration for 3 years
Personally and Systematically , I support additional resources being sent to the federal agencies that process asylum claims to reduce the existing backlog after the above changes are made to prevent future backlogs from getting out of hand and adjudicate new claims in a more timely fashion. I also support a degrowth element added to the asylum seeker process.
Personally and Systematically I am against mass deportations.
Personally and Systematically I feel we need to spend more time, resources and energy addressing concerns that lead to illegal migrants bring targeted for deportations and maybe fix the bigger issues with illegal immigration that go beyond deportations than we should spend on the whole deportation issue
Legality wise, I moral (moral as in moral victory) support having this exact migration system in the US: that the Labour Party UK supports (since it isn't natural for people to have to go through a bureaucratic process to move to another country, borders didn't exist until modern times). Ideally, with the above migration policy, we would set up a system where this wouldn't cause migration chaos (I honestly don't believe that with those policies there would be anywhere near that many migrants moving to the US each year)
Legality wise, my views on deportation match Labour Party UK’s views on deportations
Personally, systematically and Legality wise here are my other migration views:
I feel that the US must work in Central America to address the root causes of migration from Central America, to recognize that we don't need to sacrifice our humanity in the name of security. We also must work with Mexico to make sure that it takes its own border security seriously. Moreover, working with our neighbors to improve security across the region is an imporant component of any policy to promote prosperity and fairness in the hemisphere. A safe and secure region will lead to a safer, more secure United States.
Like other moderates, I also believe that the US also must engage with countries like Mexico and in Central America to address the causes that cause them to migrate to the US illegally
I am obviously very pro migrant but if we ever get to a point where there are almost as many migrants moving into the US each year as there are legal residents living in the US (or some number or percent not too far off from that), at that point I would be non hostile to even neutral lean open minded to drastic measures like closing the border or extremely and possibly severly restricting migration for awhile (which would be more restrictive than Donald Trumps migration policies). Too much of a good thing is bad, even that.
I would not condemn (but wouldn't neccassarily support) the US government if they built a border wall on our southern border if that wall was exactly as long, big ,high and thick as the wall in Game of Thrones that separates the North from the Wildings (and only because I am a fan of Game of Thrones, even Kit Harrington would endorse this view)
Churches should not snitch on illegal immigrants since that would be against God
David stole bread when he was hungry and God didn't condemn him, so for some refugees, asylum seekers and even some illegal immigrants, that similarly holds true.
I do not support the United Nations migrant treaty
I am against Joe Biden flying in illegal migrants covertly. I am pro migrant but that is too far left for me and its a violation of our constitution.
I am against illegal immigrants getting free health care
The rest of my migration views match the Bush Center's migration views
Undocumented migrants and refugees don't commit more or less crime/violent crime than legal citizens
Undocumented migrants shouldn't have more rights than legal citizens
I am symbolically ok with The Keep Families Together Act https://www.king.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/king-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-halt-separation-of-immigrant-families . Though making it a tad more conservative wouldn’t hurt
People can move to Japan not become Japanese ,people can move to Britain but not become British but people can move to America and become American. That is a message some hardliners on migration need to get. Optimism trumps determinism
I believe that migrants to the US should learn English
I am against NAFTA
I support Brexit (Jeremy Corbyn also supported and continues to support Brexit)
I am a Eurosceptic (Jeremy Corbyn is a Euro Skeptic)
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