I Could Be Wrong
by RAY WOLBRECHT
On May 18 of this year the morning news was just unbelievable. On the Mexican side of the border with Guatemala, two semi tractor-trailer rigs were x-rayed after they crossed into Mexico and the police removed 513 people from those two trailers … Guatemalans, Central Americans and some Asians. That’s less than 2 square feet per person. Each person paid $7,000 to be transported to the USA from Guatemala. That’s $3.6 million.
Can you believe so many people are so desperate to get here? What have they been told awaits them here?
I, for one, have a high respect for these people. I respect their tenacity, their work ethic, their unspoiled ability to make do with very little, their wanting a better life. I also believe we need them. I have lost faith that Americans will do the jobs that the imported workers are so ready to do for us. I firmly believe that we need to revamp our immigration laws to make it safer for them to be here … and satisfy the bureaucratic cost of their presence.
Here’s how:
• At the border, they are fingerprinted, leave a DNA sample and sign a paper stating under oath that they will go to a post office, driver’s license office or a sheriff’s department in a six-county area in which they intend to work, and register. If they move from that area they will check out and recheck in at the new area. By golly, this is the computer age and a 16-year-old ought to be able to keep up with them on a laptop using a program that his little brother created. If those fingerprints or DNA show up at a crime scene then we know who to look for.
• They pay $5,000 which covers income tax, emergency room care insurance, paperwork processing, auto insurance on themselves whether they drive or not and with that, access to a driver’s license exam. (Remember, they are already being charged thousands of dollars by “coyotes.”)
• They must go home for eight weeks per year, for a little R and R; get to know the family again. When they come back, the process starts over again.
• Limit the number of workers to the number stated in a survey of businesses as to how many they can use.
• No taxpayer social services to non-citizens of the USA. Volunteer services are okay.
• No citizens born to noncitizens. This will retire the derogatory term “anchor babies.”
• Children must be enrolled in a public or private school with tuition paid to the school through private funding. Immersion English classes will have the children speaking English in two months.
This would cut out those rapacious coyotes that so often cheat the aliens, putting their lives in danger and treating them no better than slaves, sometimes making them into actual slaves, too. It would help us prosper by filling those job positions that Americans are no longer willing to do – even at a living wage. This is where I would begin if I were the emperor of the world.
This is what I think, but I could be wrong, you know.
