The Immigration Debate

I am going to start off by saying my position on this issue, although I will try to address the problems of both sides of the argument. I am and have been always very pro-immigration, as many of you know I am a strict free market capitalist, and I believe it would be contradictory to endorse the free market when I exclude a large source of competition due to government not allowing that particular commodity into the market, in this case, that commodity is labor.

We all the know the rhetoric republican talk show hosts say from dawn til dusk, they say we are rewarding illegal activity and endorsing a crime. We hear the democrats saying they are all taking jobs that typical americans don't want anyways, and with those two arguments being thrown at each other over the radio and on TV nothing gets solved and we are left with a system at teh end of the day that just plain doesn't work.

We cannot hide from this issue any longer, blocking reform of the immigration issue is only allowing more and more unknown, unaccountable, and untaxed people across our borders. And they are going to keep coming across because there is a large incentive to do, the people in DC call it job magnet, they say we need to get rid of the job magnet issues to stop them from coming over. Well how exactly do you do that? One solution is that we could become a third world country so there is no incentive to come over illegally.. But thats not going to happen, and there is no way to get rid of this Job Magnet.

Immigration has always been healthy to america since the first ships landed on our shores. During the industrial revolution it helped shape us into what we are today. America has always had immigration and it has forced americans to be hard workers out of competition. We HAD to compete with the germans, the irish, the hispanics, the asians, we were forced to do our jobs efficiently in order to keep them. It has helped our country be one of the most advanced countries in the world.

So what do we do about the situation we are in? Well one thing is for certain, tehre has to be some sort of process to legalize the immigrants whoa re already here, it doesn't have to be easy, it can take a matter of years. But lets be realistic, we can't cart 20 million undocumented aliens out of the country and then just close our borders and hope they stay out. If they are going to be receving the benefits of living here, they should have to share the same burden of taxes as anyone of us does. So not only do we need to have some program of legalizing these workers, but we need to make certain that we don't continue having this same problem.

Right now there is ZERO incentive in coming over legally, the process is brutal, long, and expensive. What we need to utilize is some sort of worker program where they can come through legally and work. Because they are going to come either way.. We need to make the incentive to come over to our country legally greater than illegally. Yes we will see an increase in immigration into our country, but we are seeing that anyway, we just can't control it.

For the sake of our economy and a free and equal society, let's allow americans to compete with our immigration, because right now we can't. Because they are undocumented they can work for cheaper pay and not have to pay any taxes giving businesses a higher incentive to hire and undocumented worker over a citizen. However if we can control our immigration and make everyone have to pay the same, the only difference between a citizen and a guest worker will be what they are willing to work for. If our competition is willing to work for 5.15 dollars an hour 10+ hours a day, and you are not, they deserve the job.

Immigration will always play a critical role in a nations economy, maybe its about time we fix our policy?