Immigration reform, path to citizenship etc

Guess what.  I am ALL for this, but I don't want the current congress passing any amnesty type bill right now --because even if they got everything right (and fat chance with Reid as senate leader and Ear Leader having to sign anything that was passed)  I know that the marxist leaning folks who inhabit all the enforcement agencies would not enforce things so that even a good law would work.

But even so let me lay out how I think a good bill would work if we had an honest administration --not just president but all the ICE, DEA, State Dept, ...... agency employees that would enforce a fair law.

1.  No more chained immigration.  the U.S. now cares less if your aunt, or even brother or son lives here.   Does an employer want YOUR skills and is sponsoring your or do you have a business plan?  Yes, come on in.  NO, you can come for limited visits with your kin.

2.  You are here now working with a fake SS # or running a small business and want to be a citizen.  Yay you,  go to your home country with copies of your paycheck or business receipts and lets have a well expedited system to approve you for a green card so you only need to take enough time off from your job to get this done.   You are old but can show you paid into SS for 20 years we'll even let you have our SS and Medicare benefits. 

3.  You are here now working 'under the table' and/or employing other aliens while avoiding all the UE, workmans comp, FICA contributions etc that citizen businesses must pay or risk losing everything.  --You register and pay at least the last year of that stuff you should have been paying and get into the system so you have to pay the same costs as citizen businesses you can stay.   --You fail to do this and we deport your ass and seize any assets you have in this country even if its just  an ipod, but especially cars,  shops, etc.   And we'll have ICE hire extra contractors (so no permanent union jobs) to track you down rather than giving you a wink and a nod.

4.  We set up a decent temporary workers visa program and BUS you from the border to the farm you'll be working at AND back home again for the 'jobs americans just wont do'  and if stuff gets more expensive because some places have to pay more to entice 'lazy americans' so be it.

5.  We build a real border security system with mined ground between two serious fences everyplace where this won't seriously disrupt wildlife migration and armed guards who will be instructed to assume you are trying to sneak in to commit an act of terrorism in places where we can't landmine.

6.  You commit a felony or X # of significant misdemeanors while here on a green card we deport your ass, but we give your home country the option to lock you up rather than have you preying on your home country's citizens.   Since we are generous we'll even pay 6 months, perhaps more depending on serious of crime of THEIR standard incarceration costs which will in most cases be cheaper than ours. 

7.  Schools and hospitals do NOT have to provide services to you.  You want to enroll your kids you show up with green card or SS card something.   Same thing for hospitals but more so.  They do not HAVE to treat anyone.  They can require proof of insurance, money up front, proof of being enrolled in medicaid in lieu of insurance and we can have old fashioned charity hospitals that will treat you reguardless and even have the states and/or feds give them some grants but you do not get to run up the costs for everyone else by just waltzing into any old emergency room and demanding treatment. 

********Obviously this full set is NOT going to happen any time soon.*******
Now if Congress wants to pass #1  and #4 right away I'll support that bill.  Maybe some of the #2 category would apply for green cards this way, having a relative in the home country submit much of the pre paperwork and getting their current employer to say.   "I need a skilled hedge trimmer and my buddy in Mexico vouches for Juan" to make you legal, or if they do farm work and return home anyway they should be fine with a guest visa system unless their home country would fleece them too badly.  

If congress wants to work on  some watered down #5 and not just meaningless fences I'm there.  I know damn well they won't touch 2, or a 5 with any lethal force teeth to it,  6 ought to be perfectly PC acceptable but I doubt it and no way in hell they make waves with anything like #7.