Nobody Asked Me, but...
Nobody asked me, but here is my immigration policy.
Everyone is welcome under these conditions:
1- Work. Support your family. Get a job and pay your taxes.
2- Learn English
3- No public assistance (welfare, free medical care, grants ... NOTHING) for you or your family for 25 years
4- Commit a crime, you're deported with no reentry.
So if you want to work, learn English, and behave, well, come on. I generally don't like the idea of heavily restricted immigration. But anyone who wants to come for free medical care or public support or to smuggle drugs or to do terrorism, no.
Everyone is welcome under these conditions:
1- Work. Support your family. Get a job and pay your taxes.
2- Learn English
3- No public assistance (welfare, free medical care, grants ... NOTHING) for you or your family for 25 years
4- Commit a crime, you're deported with no reentry.
So if you want to work, learn English, and behave, well, come on. I generally don't like the idea of heavily restricted immigration. But anyone who wants to come for free medical care or public support or to smuggle drugs or to do terrorism, no.
posted by Keith | Thursday, April 13, 2006
5 Comments:
RACIST!!!!!!
(just kidding, but it's pretty much obligatory that anyone who proclaims a well thought out, logical solution to the "immigration problem" must be called a racist or else our entire space/time continuum would unravel)
I like your solution, and it makes sense. Now, find me a politician brave enough to get it passed into law and I'll be impressed.
Just as an FYI, if your children are born in the U.S. then they're citizens, and you can't deny them public assistance equal to what is available to every other citizen. (The 14th Amendment's privileges & immunities clause.)
-- Jim
That makes sense, and therefore it will never happen.
Why should they have to learn English?
I think, for instance, of an elderly Dutch lady I know who is living in Canada and who barely speaks English (although she does understand some). Why should she have to learn English? She's living in a community where most of the people understand Dutch. Her husband speaks both English (poorly) and Dutch. And so she gets along just fine.
I don't understand why someone who immigrates to a country would have to be required to learn the language of that country. Such a requirement, it seems to me, would preclude anyone who is elderly (and therefore has trouble learning a language), mentally handicapped, or just unable to learn a second language from immigrating -- and that would be unjust.
Can you really imagine having to tell someone that he can't sponsor his elderly Mexican mother to come live with him and his family unless she first learns English? Again, that requirement seems terribly unjust to say nothing of unnecessary.
Well, I support something like English as the Official Language. It makes a mess of things to have bi-lingual signs, menus, tax laws, etc. I wouldn't mind some boundary exceptions, such as for the elderly, and I would agree to some kind of learning period, so they don't have to know English upon arrival. But not learning English creates a permanent underclass along with many social and economic complications. It's not for the newcomer to require the existing culture to accommodate to his language.
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