Sunday 6 June 2010
Should illegal immigrants get a better deal than legal immigrants?
Legal immigrants apply to come to America under a quota system or because they have, prima facie, a legitimate reason to be here (study, family reunion, needed skill in short supply, business migrant, etc). They pay their fees, wait in the legal queue then take up jobs, pay taxes and social security, usually buy health insurance, driving licences and car insurance, and contribute greatly to our economy and to our social well-being.
Illegal immigrants avoid all that, yet still consume some taxpayer-funded services and some medical services funded by the insurance premiums of citizens and legal immigrants, not to mention services from charities that collect money from citizens and legal immigrants for the purpose .
While illegals also contribute to our economy and society, they may do so without paying their fair share of taxes or social security, some go without driving licences, auto insurance or health insurance, and they may depress unskilled wages. They may also support (however inadvertently) shoddy businesses that deliberately skirt our employment laws, not to mention our health and safety regulations.
Those in favour of a retroactive guest-worker licence program, whereby illegals can register, pay fees, join the normal economy and either return to their home country at the end of their licence or be invited to stay because of their value-add to our country, have a very sensible solution.
After implementing such a program, those who register will be marked as honest workers looking to help both themselves and our country. Those who do not register - and those who subsequently enter our country without applying for such licence - will be marked as deliberate scoff-laws who are out for their own benefit to the detriment of their host: our nation.
Legal immigrants apply to come to America under a quota system or because they have, prima facie, a legitimate reason to be here (study, family reunion, needed skill in short supply, business migrant, etc). They pay their fees, wait in the legal queue then take up jobs, pay taxes and social security, usually buy health insurance, driving licences and car insurance, and contribute greatly to our economy and to our social well-being.
Illegal immigrants avoid all that, yet still consume some taxpayer-funded services and some medical services funded by the insurance premiums of citizens and legal immigrants, not to mention services from charities that collect money from citizens and legal immigrants for the purpose .
While illegals also contribute to our economy and society, they may do so without paying their fair share of taxes or social security, some go without driving licences, auto insurance or health insurance, and they may depress unskilled wages. They may also support (however inadvertently) shoddy businesses that deliberately skirt our employment laws, not to mention our health and safety regulations.
Those in favour of a retroactive guest-worker licence program, whereby illegals can register, pay fees, join the normal economy and either return to their home country at the end of their licence or be invited to stay because of their value-add to our country, have a very sensible solution.
After implementing such a program, those who register will be marked as honest workers looking to help both themselves and our country. Those who do not register - and those who subsequently enter our country without applying for such licence - will be marked as deliberate scoff-laws who are out for their own benefit to the detriment of their host: our nation.
Those in favour of amnesty for illegal immigrants are left with just one thing to say to legal immigrants: "sucka!"
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 04:12 
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