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Neal Boortz’ immigration plan

Posted 17 Jan 2008 in 2008 election, illegal immigration, Mitt Romney

I used to listen to the Neal Boortz show back when I lived in Atlanta, and now that I live in Dallas, I have to be satisfied with what I can get of his show over the internet.

Today, he discusses Huckabee’s new 9-point plan to deal with illegal immigration and suggests one of his own, which is perhaps the best comprehensive immigration plan I’ve seen to date: It deals with the economic incentives which help drive illegals to this country; it holds employers accountable; it holds the immigrants accountable for their actions while allowing them an opportunity to make good on the promise of America; and – here’s the unique part – it leverages the free market to deal with the situation rather than another bloated bureaucracy.

Here’s a plan. I think it’s an excellent one. It is not original with me. I’ve just cobbled together a few ideas and concepts from a few different sources. I’ve covered this before in the Nuze … but being the repetitive sort … here we go again.

Step 1. Enact harsh penalties against employers who knowingly or carelessly hire illegals. If a simple mistake was made, the penalty is low. If the illegal hiring was clearly intentional or through premeditated negligence, the penalty is harsh … up to and including having your business shut down. The object here is to deny jobs to people who are in this country illegally.

Step 2. Deny all but emergency services to people who are in this country illegally. This includes no driver’s licenses. Illegals also would not be allowed to enroll in any college or university that receives government money.

Step 3. Pass federal laws, or amend the Constitution if need be, to deny citizenship status to babies born to mothers in this country illegally.

OK .. at this point you have the illegals heading home. They can’t work.
They can only get basic emergency services. The surroundings become decidedly unfriendly, and they go home.

But wait! Realistically we all know that there are many American industries that need these people to work. No problem. The second phase of this solution sets up a guest worker program .. so here are the next steps:

Step 4. Issue guest worker cards to foreign nationals who wish to come to the United States to work on a temporary basis. These guest worker cards can ONLY be issued by U.S. authorities in the countries in which the guest workers were born or of which they are citizens. No guest worker cards will be issued in the U.S.

Step 5. Establish a network of government-licensed staffing agencies. These staffing agencies will be established solely to handle the demand for guest workers. An employer will place an order with the agency for a specific number of workers with specific skills for a specific period of time. The agency will then work through it’s counterpart in Mexico or elsewhere to arrange for the needed workers and to deliver them to the employer for the work.

Step 6. Either the agency or the employer will be responsible for housing for the temporary workers, as well as for any emergency medical services that may be needed.

Step 7. The temporary worker will be paid by the agency, not by the employer. The agency will bill the employer for all costs and will pay the temporary worker from the money received by the employer. There will be severe penalties for any business or individual who makes a direct payment to a temporary worker or an illegal alien outside of the agency regime.

Step 8. When the temporary work assignment is over there are no more payments made to the temporary worker. The worker is provided transportation back from whence he came. If he elects to try to stay in the country illegally… where’s he going to work? Besides … staying here illegally results in the permanent revocation of his temporary worker card.

Anyone have any problems with this plan? Any candidate is welcome to pick it up and run with it.

Mitt Romney has some similarly good ideas, and I particularly like Fred Thompson’s “attrition through enforcement” idea as well as promoting English as the official language of the United States. But neither candidate deals with specifics of healthcare and housing of “guest workers” that are supposedly so needed in our economy. I wish one of them would either add some of these provisions to their existing plans, or hire Boortz as an advisor. Some common sense in the White House would be a nice change of pace.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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