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Alright. You're misinformed on the whole issue here.
The biggest issue that I see with illegal immigration is really not the taking of jobs, or mexicans coming across the border without much flak, but it's that hard ass drugs are making it over the border to stationed mexican drug cartel safe spots, where they then distribute it, get money for it, buy guns, and then send said money AND guns, back to the mexican drug cartels down south, which then causes a massive war, and for the US economy to lose a shitload of money to a few fucked up creepos in the drug trade...
The things we must do to stop this are
A: legalize at least some of the drugs up here.
Marijuana for example, which is a MASSIVE part of the drug trade... Bigger than just about any other drug, because it's so simple to grow, harvest, and distribute. Not to mention, penalties for possession of marijuana pale in comparison to those of harder narcotics... so it's less of a risk as well.
I personally say, lets legalize the shit out of marijuana to see what kinda hit it puts on the trade down there... not to mention, by taxing it and regulating it, here, we will be able to put that money that would otherwise go down south and go towards funding guns and death and destruction and shit, and would instead go back into our own economy and keep that money in the USA.
Not to mention, it would create a whole new tourist thing.. Look at how many people go to the Netherlands just to try out some dankity dank? Then, look at how many people go to visit wineries in Napa, or Oregon, Washington, and New York state wineries... just to try out wine... Think of how much tourist money could be potentially made from THAT industry popping up... think about it... wineries + marijuana = pot tasting? Fuck yeah... and seeing as i'm not the only one here who would think that's fuckin awesome, i'm sure that it would create a whole new way to make money, and keep that money within the US economy.
Anyways... sorry. got off on my LEGALIZE IT speach... but it has some serious merit here.
B: Make long term visas more obtainable.
As it is, most illegal immigrants come in by getting a short term visit visa... like a 90 day visa... and then instead of going back after that 90 days is up, they just stay.
Instead of making it near impossible to get a work visa, and ALLOWING illegal immigration to just happen... we should reform the work visa system... and make things more obtainable for people to work. This way, we can regulate the people that actually come here to WORK, and can weed out the people who just come here to SMUGGLE DRUGS...
We should just make it easier to obtain such a visa, but then, make it so people with such a visa have to check in much more often than they do now and let the government know where they are, and who they are working for. This can be done by making it easier for companies to hire non-citizens, for as of right now, you need to have some some serious qualifications to do so, and make yourself more than worth hiring, because companies have to go through tons of paperwork, and shell out something like 10 grand in order to hire a non-american. We need to make it easier for companies to hire immigrants, but ALSO give major priority to americans still... we dont want to lose any high end jobs to people from elsewhere. However, when it comes to small agriculture picking jobs? I think that it should be easier to hire such people for those positions, and then regulate, and tax them. They will still send money down to mexico, but at least keep some of it here in America.
This will allow us to know 1: who is here to work 2: who is here to fuck shit up/sell hard drugs 3: who is most deserving of obtaining citizenship when they get to that point.
and finally C: Bolstering our border defenses, and reorganizing the Drug REGULATION Agency (as it should be renamed, now that we don't enforce drugs, as much as we regulate them, thanks to section A above...)
By making petty drugs like Marijuana legalized, and maybe some other ones such as molly, or shrooms as well... it will give the border patrol and the DRA (hehe) more time to focus on stopping the mexican drug trade, as well as domestic drug trade IE: busting up crystal meth facilities and taking down the heroine trade rather than busting the kid on the corner pushing trees. This will keep money here in the USA, and away from mexican drug cartels. AND, by legalizing weed and molly and shrooms and whatever, we can do a better job of WARNING people of the risks of these drugs, and also, be able to monitor and place addicts into rehab a lot easier when necessary, because they'd actually have to go to a REHAB FACILITY to get such drugs in the first place.
It sounds kinda wacky, but if all the kinks are worked out, it might just work to at least educate people of the effects of these drugs, and what they can do to you, rather than allowing some heroine dealer on the street to convince you that 'this shit will make you feel GOOD" and send his money he made off you to buy more drugs from the mexican drug creeps..
Make it like you're going to driving school... You know how you had to sit in on those red asphalt videos and see the effects of drinking and driving and it scared the fuck out of you? Just show episodes of intervention or something like that, and have addicts tell other addicts stories about how they 'sucked dick for coke' and i'm sure it will scare newbies away REAL quick. Turn into NA or AA... make it easier for addicts to get help, and easier to scare the fuck out of some 19 year old college student who thinks that maybe it would be fun to do cocaine all of a sudden...
I don't know... that's just how I see it all... drug enforcement and border enforcement are one in the same... because the people that screw stuff up here, are the same people that screw stuff up down there...
It's not the guy picking your bell peppers in Fresno, Ca you have to worry about... It's the guy in bumfuck Arizona who's running a meth shed, and is being supplied guns and stuff for protection from his mexican drug bosses that you gotta look out for... and that's my point in the matter.