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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, sorry.

Reagan agreed to amnesty with tightening up avenues of illegal immigration. The amnesty happened. Enforcement didn't. Why should anyone believe there will be enforcement in the future without there being teeth to it?

We've already had the amnesty. It happened 30 years ago. It's time for the enforcement. All amnesty did under Reagan was cause more people to come here illegally, taking a chance they'd get to stay. Cutting them a break will lead to more illegal aliens. Enforcement should happen quickly.[/quote]

And that's the problem - Dems agree but won't come through. First we need enforcement, THEN we'll see about DACA. If Dems are serious about stemming illegal immigration, they will readily agree to this.[/quote]

But the GOP keeps getting enforcement. It’s gotten it’s way enforcement funding 6x already. (It may be more - I’ve lost count.) All the GOP does is move the goalposts in order win more pork for their lobbyist friends. Just look at the corporations that benefit from building all of this shit we don’t need.

You want to actually address the issues that cause undocumented immigration? Here’s a hint: THE SOLUTION ISN’T THE BORDER.

Why on earth does the GOP have a hard-on for a Wall? Visa overstays outnumber undocumented border crossings. For a party that supposedly cares about fiscal responsibility, I don’t understand the rationale to throw billions at solutions that don’t address the actual push/pull factors behind immigration— unless your intentions are to rally the xenophobic, gun-toting base.

The solution must be enforcement of employers, rather than employees, who are recruiting and hiring undocumented labor. And the other even more component is raising wages (initially subsidizing agricultural and manufacturing businesses if necessary) and raising the artifically low immigration visa cap in order to fill the jobs that go unfilled without undocumented labor.  Those visas MUST have portability in order to protect the rights of immigrants and also U.S. workers; currently employers will stiff and abuse employer-based visa holders because the workers can’t complain without risking their visa.

— signed, someone who worked on the 2013 bipartisan bill only to see it sunk by the GOP in the end

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