Synopsis
The United States of America is facing a serious dilemma. We need to strengthen our nation’s immigration policies, but we don’t know how.
The problem is real for all kinds of people, from all backgrounds. Maybe, for instance, you’re an employer, stymied by the lack of usable tools to help you determine who is legal to work and who isn’t. Or maybe you’re a worker who fears recent migrants are stealing your job by working for less money or by getting paid under the table. Or perhaps you are an illegal migrant who can’t call the police when you are victimized by others, including fellow illegal migrants, because if you call you will be deported.
Even politicians acknowledge the problem. How often do you hear them use the words “immigration reform”? But something is wrong because we can’t seem to get the problem solved. How many politicians do you know of who are actually reforming immigration in any meaningful way--even after years of preaching reform?
Americans understand the desire to build a better life in this greatest nation in the world. We understand what drives both good and bad people to our shores. We also believe that migrants must earn the right to live here by conforming to our society and learning our language. What is needed is a clear understanding of the problem, free of political rhetoric and long-standing myths, and a concrete, practical approach to solving it.
If you knew of a solution to this dilemma, would you support it?
Would you embrace a plan that needed no new governmental agencies to initiate it?
Would you demand such a plan if you knew that enterprising businessmen and women, businesses large and small, and even churches and synagogues could almost effortlessly develop and effect this solution?
Would you fight for it if you knew that this solution would effectively eliminate criminals from the illegal alien population, require competency in English, and compel migrants to work and pay taxes? Just like everyone else?
Is it possible for the United States to meet the needs of our desperate neighbors without burdening our own people and government?
Yes, it is.