Tuesday, November 29, 2011
GOP Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich Outlines His Plan to Control Illegal Immigration
What do you think about Newt Gingrich's plan?
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What do you think about Newt Gingrich's plan?
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Having done so much reading and research on immigration for our class as well as a reseasrch paper for my English class, it's interesting to hear all the different plans people have to "solving" illegal immigration. I have yet to hear someone who includes all sides of the problem in their solution. It's an incredibly sensitive subject, and therefore very hard to deal with. My two main concerns with Gingrich's plan are about his second and fourth points. His second point was to make English the official language. That would take so much work and money to change or discontinue so much that has already been printed in our country. There are so many things in Spanish already, does he just expec those to disappear? Then, his fourth point was to make deportation easier. My question for him is how in the world he plans to do that. He didn't give any options of how to do that, but only said we needed to do it. It seems as if there is no way to make deportation easier. They still have to go to the trouble to find the illegals who are here, then arrest them, then have them transported back to their country. There is nothig simple or cheap about that. It's a complicated process and is very expensive, especially since we're dealing with thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants every month. It's much easier said than done, which is what I felt like Gingrich did. He gave appealing options without giving ideas of how to accomplish them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what was said above. Economically, it isn't realistic to make deportation "easy". That would involve taking more from tax payers pockets and I am pretty sure most people aren't going to agree to that. Also I agree that immigrants should learn American history, however there are several natives that don't know our history very well so I don't think immigrants should be expected to know more than the average American. Finally, I agree that new guest worker programs need to be implemented although a system needs to be in place that gives them incentive to return back to their native country after their visa has expired.
ReplyDeleteI like that he is not talking about amnesty as a solution because that would create a HUGE pull factor for illegal immigrants. Giving residency for those that are already here is a solution that would make deportation easier. The only problem is the way he wants to go about it. Having the community decide can be dangerous because people tend to play favorites which could create adverse effects. I am not sure why he mentioned making them learn American history to get citizenship because my brother-in-law finally received his citizenship, and he learned so much American history, the anthem, the pledge, and so on. Into more detail than what I learned in my classes in schooling. One concern is how he wants to do the visas. He joked about having MasterCard do that but did not give a serious solution. I think that his plan is a great start but definitely needs work.
ReplyDeleteI am going to say something rather controversial: Why close the borders?
ReplyDeleteYes, I know all of the arguments: it will take jobs from the USA citizens, it will lower property values, it will bring higher crime rates, etc. etc.
But don't these arguments all sound familiar? Didn't people say this about Chinese back in the day? Or Irish? Or Polish, German, Italian, Jewish, and every other big wave of immigrants? Has it ever worked out the way people fear? Yeah, sure, it does cause some problems in the short run, but could you imagine what America would be like now without Irish or German? I bet more than half of us have at least some heritage in these ethnic groups. Is America ruined now because of them? Of course not!
People who come to America become America! America isn't a single culture, it is all of the cultures of everyone who lives here uniquely blending and interacting together.
I believe that if we freely opened the border to anyone to become citizens (or at the very least, legal residents) then America will not be weaker, but stronger because of it! It is only an immigrant problem because we see it as a problem.
And if you think that certain immigrants are of an "unsavory" class that will harm us, remember that America was originally a place to send convicts ("Death or America, it's your choice!"), and we've turned out alright so far.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
America is supposed to be a place where anyone can rise above what they have been and become something new: Americans!
If the world wants to be Americans, than why stop them???
-John Richardson