Solving the immigration puzzle
The immigration system is like a jigsaw puzzle. If one or more pieces are out of whack, the puzzle makes no sense. To fix the system, Congress must make sure all of the pieces fit together, logically and snugly.
To do so, several realities must be faced squarely, including:
It is not law enforcement but the law itself that is broken. The nation has changed dramatically since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and that legislation has not held up well. It has been patched over so many times that it is hopelessly complex and incoherent. We need to start from scratch.
The nature of the border-security problem has evolved. The only tried-and-true method of reducing illegal immigration is a bad economy. Thus, with a dismal American economy and an improving Mexican one, the net immigration from Mexico is now zero: As many Mexicans are leaving the U.S. as are entering it.
The far greater border-security threat is paramilitaristic drug cartels that often are also involved in human smuggling, increasingly from Central American countries. The U.S. needs to coordinate closely with Mexico and focus its resources on defeating the cartels. The nation also needs to continue harnessing technology to identify risky foreign visitors and swiftly deport those who commit crimes or overstay their visas.
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How about we take the 60K US soldiers that are guarding the border of South Korea and pay them to guard our own borders.
MoreLiberty on January 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Hey Jebby, are your SURE? Because we haven’t really tried law enforcement.
LilyBart on January 25, 2013 at 10:42 AM
What a bunch of bull. Sanctuary cities, in state tuition, catch and release, suing states over enforcement. No attempt to enforce current laws are being made.
Flange on January 25, 2013 at 10:43 AM
How is this complicated? Add some barbed wire, land mines and machine guns to the borders to stop the drug runners.
And put in an express ramp so the people whose only “crime” is wanting to mow my lawn for a reasonable rate can get their asses up here.
logis on January 25, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Jeb feeling ignored because the family puppet is getting all the press lately?
Jeddite on January 25, 2013 at 10:52 AM
Rubio, Sr. speaks.
steebo77 on January 25, 2013 at 10:55 AM
In the article, he says:
My god, that’s dumb. Let’s try that on something else where there is an illegal version and a legal version.
“The best way to prevent pilfering goods is to make sure that we have a fair and workable system of purchasing goods.”
Right. Yep. Genius. Somehow, the ability to buy goods legally doesn’t prevent stealing goods.
Jeb is an idiot. Flat out.
beatcanvas on January 25, 2013 at 11:18 AM
No, he’s just dishonest.
Doomberg on January 25, 2013 at 11:27 AM
One more pandering traitor undermining and Balkanizing the nation.
Enforce the laws or go.
profitsbeard on January 25, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Jeb,
Just because your parents had a Mexican lady take care of you and yor brothers and you have guilt from that does not mean you get to transfer your guilt to U.S. and attempt to take our land our gold lower our wages and dilute our votes.
Get a real job.
If you have this strong urge to go along with the commie Democrats man up and cross over.
” I would say “cowboy up”, but you nor your brother/father where ever real Texans.”
APACHEWHOKNOWS on January 25, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Here, allow me to solve it, secure the border. There you go, problem solved, funny how some people just can’t figure that out, almost like they don’t want to figure it out.
clearbluesky on January 25, 2013 at 11:37 AM
There is no immigration puzzle, in a nation of 20%+ real unemployment, and rampant tribalism – we don’t need immigrants legal or illegal.
10-15 year legal immigration moratorium.
National E-Verify, military grade fence on the border, make hiring an illegal a felony, end anchor babies, require proof of legality for remittances – watch illegals deport themselves.
The only puzzle here is, why there are republicans who want to destroy the GOP and the republic with their insane amnesty ideas.
Rebar on January 25, 2013 at 11:37 AM
Might be, but I learned long ago that attributing stupidity to malice is really more often just stupidity.
You know, by his logic, retailers suffer theft today because people lack a fair and workable way to purchase goods. In his opinion, the “best way” to prevent theft in stores is to contrive a new system of purchasing goods. After all, that’s why theft happens – the lack of workable fairness in capitalism.
RFID? Security in stores? Why that’s just a brutal capitalist regime.
What a socialist jerk, this guy Jeb.
beatcanvas on January 25, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Because illegal immigration is pretty darn good if you’re rich, lots of cheap labor, but if you’re middle class or below it destroys you, cheaper to hand out a few welfare checks to the proles than stop all that cheap labor.
clearbluesky on January 25, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Rebar
“Two Party Evil Money Cult In Washington D.C.”
APACHEWHOKNOWS on January 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM
On the other hand, look at it this way.
At least the more recent border jumpers will be well armed thanks to Obama and his Fast and Furious gun running operation.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on January 25, 2013 at 11:52 AM
These pathetic progressives, like Christie, Rubio and Jeb Bush would love for immigration to be a “puzzle”, and they would like nothing more than to make amnesty a piece of this puzzle. Immigration is not a “puzzle” – the laws already on the books are clear-cut, and should be enforced.
If the GOP wants to survive, it must abandon Christie/Rubio/Bush and their ilk – the party must return to its conservative roots.
Pork-Chop on January 25, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Illinois is also giving them valid driver’s licenses (with the help of state Republicans.) Doh!
Fallon on January 25, 2013 at 12:32 PM
As Republicans redefine their party as “Democrats-Lite” and fall to their knees to service the “Latino vote”, it is time we start talking about how millions of foreign nationals living here in violation of our laws, our sovereignty and our wishes are in fact violating the human rights of American citizens.
As a nation of people, Americans have the basic human right to determine the present and future course of our society, our economy and our political landscape without undue influences from literally millions upon millions of foreign nationals that came here in violation of our laws, sovereignty, and against our will. Undocumented immigration and it’s supporters violate the human rights of Americans.
“Immigration reform” is code for creating millions of artificial votes. The Democrats want the millions of additional votes to cement them into power effectively forever. And now the Republicans think they can get more votes/power by becoming “Democrats-Lite” by pandering to the “Latino vote”.
It is profoundly wrong that as a nation we are being forced to deal with yet another round of “Immigration reform” designed to artificially create (including ‘family reunification’) 15 to 25 million new Democrat voters / “citizens” by fiat action.
Let me be clear: This is not about the people that immigrate here other than the criminal element. I worked with immigrant workers, both legal and not, in the orchards and fields of CA’s Central Valley for many years. I found them to be by and large good, family-oriented people who are not afraid of hard work. Frankly, IMO, America would be a better place if we could deport all the OWS types and keep the kind of immigrants that I worked with. But I’m not advocating that as the OWS types are my fellow Americans even if they are incredibly stupid and wrong.
But let’s be honest: “Immigration reform” is nothing less than a soft coup by the Left over America – and the Left are now being aided and abetted by gutless/witless Republicans.
Bottom line: We are rapidly approaching the time when American citizens who value freedom, our human rights and the Constitution must seriously question whether a government is legitimate that (among other efforts to usurp our rights) is also trying to blatantly grab power by artificially creating millions of new, easily controlled, predominately Democrat voters from foreign nationals living here against in violation of our laws and our human rights.
DrDeano on January 25, 2013 at 1:06 PM
In other words, if they can’t get a job, they will self-deport, which is one solution offered by anti-amnesty folks time and time again when this issue comes up, yet is rejected time and time again by amnesty shills like Jeb Bush.
It’s people like you who have no desire to enforce immigration laws who are broken, Jeb, not the law itself.
xblade on January 25, 2013 at 1:42 PM
Hah!
Mr. Arkadin on January 25, 2013 at 1:44 PM