Neal Boortz has a five step plan to curb illegal immigration:
1. Close the borders. Not next month. Now. ... [snip]2. Immediately pass legislation providing for harsh penalties for any and all businesses and individuals who hire illegal aliens. ...[snip]
3. Heavily tax all wire and other transfers of money from illegal aliens to their homelands. If Mexico is getting $20 billion a year from illegal aliens in the U.S., seize about 30% of it. Call it a fine. That $7 billion could also be spent on border and immigration control.
4. Change the law so that any child born to a person in this country illegally does not automatically become an American citizen. That child will adopt the citizenship of its mother.
5. Put an end to providing all but emergency social services to illegal aliens. No food stamps, no welfare benefits, no access to taxpayer-funded government schools ... no taxpayer-funded government services except for life saving medical care.
[Emphasis mine.]
Surely I don't need to point out that it's the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which grants citizenship to all born in the country. You can't just 'change the law' in that case.
Why do I hear that same proposal from so often from the anti-immigrationists? And what's with a so-called libertarian calling for new taxes?
Posted by Walter at April 26, 2006 11:18 AMSure, it's a plan, if you're the kind of person who thinks that item number one on that list, "Close the borders", is a simple single-step operation... Item two is the logical bit, because it could mean actual enforcement of the law; call me crazy, but enforcement seems like a something to try before any, you know, new policies.
As to the rest, well, "hysterics" is the word that comes to mind. (Those wacky Amendments! Is there anything they can't do?!?!)
Well, I guess I'm not surprised this is coming from Boortz. And I imagine you already know this, but he's a pretty far cry from a libertarian in terms of his actions. I thought this article was fairly interesting.
Posted by: Neal at May 1, 2006 07:46 PM