Eric the Red

Many protests in my area over immigration reform legislation say that illegal migrant workers are the backbone of the US economy. While some say that they ruin our country, others think illegal immigration is related to Mexico re-taking the West. While the Senate would create a legalization path for many of the 11 million migrants in the country, I agree with many members of the House of Representatives.

Lets be real, exploiting such workers has nothing to do with compassion, its about money. A business that employs so-called undocumented workers does not have to pay taxes that fund unemployment insurance funds or workers compensation funds. Such workers bilk social security out of millions upon millions of dollars per year. The same applies to state treasuries and the Federal government, to say nothing of the crime and unemployment that occurs among our own citizens that occurs as a result of our migrant worker population. How many members of MS-13 do you suppose waited in line for a visa? Simple: None of them.

The United States does not need any of these people to function economically. My dad paid for college in the 1970s by working in the areas these workers do: agriculture and construction, and there are plenty of high school graduates to fill these positions.

Legalizing those who have traveled here over the last 15+ years will only open a floodgate in the future. Why wait on a list for years, hoping your priority number for a visa will come up when you can creep across the border and wait for Congress to buckle under political pressure?

So how do we deal with it? Since most of these workers are employed in agriculture and construction, have the INS and local police spot-check construction sites. If they find illegal aliens working there, deport them that week and make the employer pay all the bills as a penalty. The border should be sealed off with a wall and the military and/or national guard should be deployed with the border patrol to ensure its security.

While this will no doubt cause a political uproar in Mexico, so what? Their government has done its part to help millions of their citizens sneak their way in. And whats this crap about our hospitals contributing to those in mexico?? We are on the verge of a crisis over health care costs in this country, and we are sending our money to MEXICO??

Why are we rewarding criminals and cheaters at the expense of our own people?