| 1. 12 million illegal immigrants did not appear | | | | time and money doing the U.S. Government's job |
| overnight. Actions by Congress - or the lack of | | | | of controlling immigration?" 5. A recent trend is a |
| action - created the environment for illegal | | | | test of a system where employers can call a |
| immigration to exist. 2. The main drive behind legal | | | | number to see if an applicant is eligible to work in |
| immigration is family reunification, a holdover from | | | | the U.S. Do we really expect massive mistakes |
| WWII. Is it time to give preference to nurses and | | | | not to be made here? Who protects the legal |
| computer engineers over brothers and sisters of | | | | immigrant when immigration authorities give the |
| U.S. Citizens? What we need is not what we get. | | | | wrong answer? 6. All of this is leading to a place |
| 3. Actions by Congress always have unintended | | | | that politicians and bureaucrats have wanted to |
| consequences. Congress put annual limits on the | | | | go for years but which has been resisted by the |
| number of H-1 visas that could be given to | | | | people - a national ID card. Internal passports. |
| temporary professional workers. Registered | | | | "Give me your papers." Security after 9/11. |
| nurses were split off into H-1A and others were | | | | Citizens should not have to prove their identities |
| put into an H-1B category. The H-1A program | | | | unless involved in crime. Bet that this will be our |
| ended in 1996, and now we have a nurse | | | | next loss of privacy and personal liberty. 7. If the |
| shortage just as the Baby Boomers need more | | | | government cannot stop illegal immigration at the |
| health care. 4. At the time of the last amnesty, | | | | border, why are we forced to put up with all the |
| employer sanctions were imposed as a | | | | hassles of airport security? Are they just trying |
| compromise. Let the last group of illegals get | | | | to fool us in to believing they can do something? |
| green cards in 5 years, but make it tough for the | | | | The 9/11 hijackers all came in with legal visas. |
| next group. As we have seen, sanctions don't | | | | Congress is so divided on the subject of what to |
| work. Fake documents are cheap, and many small | | | | do about 12 million illegal aliens living in the U.S., |
| employers don't keep the paperwork anyway. But | | | | working, attending school, and creating new U.S. |
| the fundamental question was never addressed: | | | | citizen children. Congress is as much a part of the |
| "Why should employers be forced to spend their | | | | problem as the solution. More to come. |