Immigration Law and Deportee Strategies - What About Human Rights Some Ask?

Over the years, I & # 39; ve heard some pretty outrageous hardcore, redneck concepts on how to deal with people who sneak over our border into the US to live here.Some of these comments or concepts have been made out of frustration, some due to racism, and others as potential strategies to show that we mean business and you can & # 39; t break into our country-if you want to come here, do it legally.Let & # 39; s talk shall we?

Still, how does one come legally, it can take years to get citizenship, it is tough process, and it can cost a lot legally to do it right.Oh some of the concepts I & # 39; ve heard, well you probably will cringe when I tell you but here it goes:

1. Fly the deportees to Tierra del Fuego at the bottom of South America.The thinking here is it would take them forever and a day to get back or to walk that distance.During that long walk or trek back, if they did make it , they would realize that perhaps trying to get the United States is not worth it.

2. A three strike rule.Anyone caught for deportation for sneaking into the country would be branded on their leg.After they had three marks, they would be put to work in hard labor somewhere far away where the United States needed to build some infrastructure Or fly them to an island in the middle of nowhere, with no way off the island, and leave.

Yes, those are pretty drastic actions, but in reality the illegal immigration problem in the US is quite large, and we aren & # 39; t solving any the problems.The immigration laws for doing it correctly are too onerous, and it takes too many years. We & # 39; re going to have to find a different way to do things.The system is broken.Everyone knows it.

There was an editorial piece in the Sunday September 8, 2013 edition of the New York Times titled; "Deportees, Then and Now," by Editorial Board.

"Senator Dianne Feinstein wrote to Janet Napolitano, the departing secretary of homeland security, imploring the administration to stop harming her state & # 39; s economy with ramped-up immigration audits that force farmers and growers to fire workers they desperately need. & # 39 ; Concentrate instead on removing those who would and have harmed our society, & # 39; she wrote, & # 39; rather than those who contribute to our vital agricultural economy and heritage, and the safe and high-quality food supply that benefits all Americans. & # 39; "

Yes, does this bring up another point? There are businesses in the United States who provide jobs for people who sneak over the border, those same businesses cannot seem to find a way to bring these folks over legally, or they have such a tough time doing so, they just give up.If we throw our farmers in jail for hiring labor they need, and hiring willing workers-then what does that say about us as a nation or how we fundamentally rationalize our goal for free enterprise, the right to free contract, and the challenges we have with our immigration strategies.Please consider all this and think on it.