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Apr. 19, 2006 It appears to me that semantics can be skewed to depict just about any viewpoint one wants to present. That said, there is more going on with semantics and our government with regard to the new immigration reform proposed by congress than there is work getting done toward remedying this. Part of our legislators take the tact that because we have used the word "illegal" the people residing within our borders without permission to do so are illegal. The other part of our legislation and government say that they (the illegal immigrants) should become guest workers because America cannot function without them. I have mixed feeling about this issue. Let me expound upon this if I may. I do not disagree that they have largely entered this country illegally and that currently we do have laws on the books regarding this delicate issue. However, those laws obviously need revising. I do not disagree that they (the illegal immigrants) perform much of the work that American's deem beneath them. I do not disagree that because they do this manual labor at a lower cost than Americans might that it has had some adverse effect on the overall wages in America. I do not disagree that their entry into the United States has been a burden in some areas with regard to their medical and educational systems. I do not feel the answer is merely to open our borders to anyone and everyone who wants to come. We need to be assured that the people coming into our country are not criminals and are worthy of being associated with America and all this association and affiliation allows and implies. We need to be assured these people will pull their own weight and pay taxes like the rest of us. We need to be assured that they do not further burden an already strained medical and educational system. How do we do this? I say instead of building a fence along our border we staff the border with empowered INS persons or border patrol persons who would welcome these people to the United States, fill out some preliminary paperwork, take fingerprints and run them into our FBI and/or CIA computer files to look for potential criminal matches prior to fitting them with a microchip/GPS. If everything checks out we provide them a temporary visa allowing them to stay as long as their employer can provide documentation as to their employment. Each time they change employers the employer needs to alert INS or the border patrol as to these changes so we can effectively update this data. This microchip can tell us where they are at any given time as well as provide some numerical/alpha-numeric tracking for taxes, insurance, medical, etc. After three years we can give them citizenship if they have abided by these rules and regulations. For those people already within our borders we could give them a year to comply with these changes and then if their employer allows them to still work without compliance we can fine the employer a very hefty fine or imprison them for failure to comply. This way we place the onus or burden of proof onto the employers or the ones reaping the rewards of this workers. I believe that as long as we apply these measures fairly to all persons wishing to enter the United States we can maintain a secure and respected front to the international community as well as satisfy the concerns of our people here at home. ------------ About the author: Michelle Malsbury was born and raised in Champaign, Illinois. She holds a BA in Business Management. Currently she is seven weeks away from earning her master's degree in Organizational Management while concurrently pursuing her lofty writing ambitions. Her plans also involve obtaining her PhD in 2006/07. Michelle moved to south Florida in 1982 and resides between the Keys, Miami, and Apalachicola, allowing her to experience the seasonal fluctuations between the southernmost and nearly northernmost beauty in the state of Florida. Travels have taken her from Europe through the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and across much of the United States. She enjoys outdoor activities like sailing, waterskiing, hiking, bike riding, working out, and fishing as well as reading, music, theatre, playing with her two amusing pets (Abu Chez, her 6 year old Australian Blue Heeler and Zack, her two year old yellow tabby cat) and writing. Michelle is a regular featured author on the web site www.useless-knowledge.com and member of their 100 + articles published club. Here she enjoys exchanging points of view with her comrades on an array of topics. "Three Years With Adonis" is the first to be published of several books that she has written and is now available in all the better bookstores, but can also be found and ordered at Amazon.com, Booksamillion.com, Barnesandnoble.com, or ordered directly from her web sites, www.3yearswithadonis.com, www.threeyearswithadonis.com, or www.MichelleMalsbury.com. In addition to "Three Years With Adonis", she has authored four other books and three screenplays while continuing to explore all that life hands her. Email Michelle Malsbury: zackywacks@aol.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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