Skjellyfetti wrote:CitadelGrad wrote:
It seems you have overlooked a couple of key word and phrases here. The first is "work permit". That means documentation. It does not mean tolerating undocumented and illegal aliens. The second is "taxes". It does not mean sending all of their money back to Mexico or some other **** hole.
How am I overlooking "work permits" or "taxes"... ?
I support both of those. I support expanding work visas for migrant workers that allows them to be here and work in this country legally and a way to collect taxes.
I wish Republicans still did.
Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, January 11, 1989
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.
"Work visas", as you call them, are still nonimmigrant visas, and applicants still have to overcome the legal presumption that they are intending immigrants in order to be issued those visas.
Countries like Australia, Taiwan and other developed countries have less stringent nonimmigrant visa issuance policies because they also have more stringent immigration policies. For instance, in Australia, you actually have to speak English, and it is very hard to adjust status in country (for those who like to get a fake marriage). Plus, they dont have issues with anchor babies.
In our case, the visa window is the front line, because refusing a visa is infinitely easier than evicting someone who is already in the country, even illegally.
I also support the expansion of the nonskilled labor visa classes, but our immigration laws need to be tweaked to make sure those folks do not adjust status or drop anchor babies. Simply expanding this visa program or that visa program will only exacerbate the problem.
Ronald Reagan was referring to legal immigration, not people streaming across the border unscreened and unvetted.