House Speaker John Boehner has drawn a line in the
sand on the Senate’s Gang of 8 bill or any bill, for that matter, that deals
with illegal immigration. He will follow
the Hastert Rule. The Hastert Rule,
named for former Speaker Dennis Hastert, means that a bill will not be brought
up for a vote unless it has majority support from the majority. In other words, a majority of Republicans
would have to support a particular bill before Boehner would allow a vote.
Of course, had Boehner invoked the Hastert Rule
before we wouldn’t have seen a tax increase.
I’m, quite frankly, sick and tired of hearing that
the illegal immigration problem is complicated.
It’s very simple. If you broke
into this country you have to leave and apply to come in the right way. Ah, but we can’t deport 11 million people,
they say. That’s ridiculous. We didn’t pay to import them, we won’t have
to pay to deport them. All we have to do
is do what I’ve been advocating for at least ten years: Demagnetize America.
You cut off the magnets that brought these people
here. Why did they come in the first
place? Because of the magnets; the jobs
and the government benefits. You cut
those off and they go home. If the
penalty for hiring an illegal alien is you lose your business license then you
would never risk hiring an illegal alien.
This needs to be a federal law.
We make E-Verify mandatory.
E-Verify is a program run by Homeland Security and the Social Security
Administration. It is Internet-based,
simple to use and free. In a matter of
seconds an employer can check on a potential employee and make sure they’re
legal. If there’s a problem the employee
has 8 business days to present the proper documentation to straighten the
problem out. Many states are already
using this for state employees and it’s the law of the land for federal
employees.
With E-Verify there is no excuse in hiring an illegal
alien. If the penalty is the loss of
your business you’ll make double sure you’re hiring only legal workers. If we also make it illegal to provide
government benefits to illegal aliens other than emergency services then the
problem is solved overnight.
Think about it.
If you were told by your employer that you could not work in this state
any longer what would you do? You’d pack
up immediately and move to another state.
That’s what we do with Demagnetize America. We give all of the illegals and their
employers six months to put their personal and financial affairs in order then
we start cracking down. Simultaneously,
we secure the borders. We put some of
that drone technology to good use – unarmed, of course. We bring our boys back from Afghanistan and
we put them on the border doing something that directly affects our national
security. The drug-running stops. The terrorists stop sneaking across our
borders. The illegals who are here go
home and anyone coming to this country comes the right way.
The unemployment problem all but evaporates. With people back to work we’re able to drastically
cut the welfare programs and get the economy moving. If only Congress were proposing all of
this. What we’re trying to do is to stop
them from making the problem even worse by legalizing 11 to 20 million illegal
aliens.
The good news is John Boehner is standing between us
and a country-crippling illegal immigration law. The bad news is only John Boehner is standing between us and a country-crippling
illegal immigration law.
