The ILLEGAL Immigration Solution

All of these votes.

All of these amendments.

So much hostility.

So many unnecessary headaches.

There is a simple solution to get a grip on the ILLEGAL immigration problem. It's not a perfect solution, but at least it's a start. It would be much better than the immigration bill currently being considered in Senate.

This solution should appeal to the libs, always looking to forfeit our sovereignty, give a back seat to American interests, and kowtow to the global community.

It should also make the conservatives happy. It takes a tough stance on upholding the rule of law.

Let's have a uniform policy for all countries of the Americas.

The United States and Mexico could be the first to adopt the shared policy.

Actually, Mexico wouldn't have to do anything. The country already employs this policy.

All we have to do is follow Mexico's lead. We can model U.S. immigration law on current Mexican immigration law.

Simple.

J. Michael Waller provides the details.

Mexico has a radical idea for a rational immigration policy that most Americans would love. However, Mexican officials haven’t been sharing that idea with us as they press for our Congress to adopt the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill.

That's too bad, because Mexico, which annually deports more illegal aliens than the United States does, has much to teach us about how it handles the immigration issue. Under Mexican law, it is a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.

At a time when the Supreme Court and many politicians seek to bring American law in line with foreign legal norms, it’s noteworthy that nobody has argued that the U.S. look at how Mexico deals with immigration and what it might teach us about how best to solve our illegal immigration problem. Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:

---in the country legally;

---have the means to sustain themselves economically;

---not destined to be burdens on society;

---of economic and social benefit to society;

---of good character and have no criminal records; and

---contributors to the general well-being of the nation.

The law also ensures that:

---immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;

---foreign visitors do not violate their visa status;

---foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country’s internal politics;

---foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;

---foreign visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;

---those who aid in illegal immigration will be sent to prison.

Who could disagree with such a law? It makes perfect sense. The Mexican constitution strictly defines the rights of citizens -- and the denial of many fundamental rights to non-citizens, illegal and illegal. Under the constitution, the Ley General de Población, or General Law on Population, spells out specifically the country's immigration policy.

It is an interesting law -- and one that should cause us all to ask, Why is our great southern neighbor pushing us to water down our own immigration laws and policies, when its own immigration restrictions are the toughest on the continent?

If a felony is a crime punishable by more than one year in prison, then Mexican law makes it a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.

Read more.

Why struggle to construct a massive, comprehensive overhaul of our immigration policy?

Why not just adopt the policy that works so well for our good neighbors to the south?

Sound good?

Good.