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With the presidential elections in the air alot of social topics are finding the way back into the news.  Everyone seems to want to know what their candidates think about abortion, immigration, capitol punishment, racism, and the economy.  I’m far from an expert any any of those fields, but perhaps its time we got the oppinion out there of someone who isn’t an expert.  What I’ve decided to blog about today is immigration.

Picture for a moment a scene from COPS where an officer drives by an alleyway and spots a gang hanging out.  The same typical scene plays out everyday in virtually every low income area in america.  The cop stops by to hassle them a bit while checking to see if they are up to no good.  From the officers point of view he sees a group of boys hanging out somewhere they shouldn’t be and a high probablility that they are about to commit a crime.   From the boy’s point of view they feel like the cop is out to get them. They invision racial profiling and any number of other concepts as why this cop decided to “Pick on Them.”  Most of these boys will see things the way the cop did after another 20 years or so.  assuming they live that long  They’ll look back at all the dumb things they did as kids and feel smarter for having grown out of it. 

This same scenario exists for illegal immigrants living illegally in the united states.  Every day they hear about more bills and legislation meant to “pick on them.”  The big difference is that the gang kids eventually grow up, get into better societal circles, and realize their mistakes.  Immigrants on the other hand get trapped into small divided communities where everyone has the same problem as they do.  They don’t get the opportunity to grow through the benefit of good social interaction.  The law continues to get harsher hoping they’ll go away.  Just like the gang kids though they don’t really have anywhere else to go.  If they fit in the country they came from do you really think they would have come here?

I’m going to let the cat out of the bag here and openly admit to everyone that I am not a great person.  I really don’t care whether we let them in or kick them out.  All I really want is for the problem to go away.  When I make my decision as to who I will vote for it doesn’t have anything to do with the candidates oppinion of abortion.  It doesn’t have anything to do with anything that doesn’t affect my bottom dollar.  I’m going to vote for whomever promises me the biggest tax refund.  Provided I think their claim is legit.

Illegal immigration hurts my pocketbook.  Money I pay for taxes goes to healthcare, public roads, emergency services, ect.  The more people who are drawing on that tax budget without paying into it the more it costs me.  Illegal immigrants are using the same roads and the same emergency services as the rest of us.  They just aren’t paying for them.  So the billion dollar question is how do we fix the leak in the budget?

Here is my approach:  Run a background check on anyone who wants to be a legal U.S. Citizen.  Make them pay for it.  If they can pass the background check let them in.  That way we can start charging them taxes.  We should eliminate deportation and instead jail anyone caught without papers.  Not to be mean, but as incentive for them to get legal and start paying taxes like the rest of us.  We can even run the background check and get them papers while they wait in a cell.  This will take a good portion of the criminal element that exists here without legal papers and eliminate it.  The millions of undocumented illegals will provide more than enough in additional taxes funds to cover any major flaws in the idea.  I know the reason alot of illegal immigrants don’t get legal is because of the exhorbitant cost.  There isn’t any reason it should cost more than a background check and a printed ID card. 

 For those of you who “Wish they would go back to their own country.” Think about it like this.  Why are the ones that really bother you here?  They came across the border to sponge off our economy and send money back to their families in other countries.  If we offer papers freely, and start charging taxes here is how it will go.  The ones that really want to be a part of the United States will get papers and pay up just like a good citizen.  The ones that are here to Sponge off our economy will either stay here illegally, or they will leave.  With threat of harsher punishment they will have a real motivation to either conform or leave.   Its different to come here and live illegally if all they have to fear is deportation. 

Face it, its not the fact that they are here that really bothers you.  Its the fact that they are here living tax free without fear of the law, while you and I are both paying taxes and following regulations every day.  Its time we opened up the borders and put everyone on a level playing field.  The United States would not look like such an attractive destination to the third world if we make it so life is just as difficult here as it was where they came from.   We could finally get back to the great capitalist society the united states was meant to be.  People with great ideas would flock here where their capitalist intentions could flourish.  People who want to be a drain on society would find it hard to compete in a more driven society.  Eventually the bottom tier of our population would start to emmigrate away, making a better life for those who are willing to work hard and conform.

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