The Immigration Debate | Solutions & Political Posturing
Channel: Logan Liberty
Date: 21/06/2018

Once again immigration is a hot-button issue that is stirring up the entire nation. Republican team players and Democrat team players will dig their heels in, ignore all nuance, and quite frankly… take extreme positions. 
Apparently, Democrats grew a heart, after looking away for decades, and now all of a sudden they care about immigrants and the children being separated from their parents at the border. 
Just a recap, since the presidency of Bill Clinton, the United States has been tearing families apart at the border. But since Donald Trump is in office, Democrats finally care. 
To be fair, the Republicans aren’t any better as they attempted to double down on enforcing the law. 
However, Ted Cruz introduced legislation that would prevent parents and their children being turned away at the border. However, of course, as we all know, it wasn’t good enough for the Democrats who had to introduce their own bill. Why couldn’t they just support Ted Cruz’s bill? Because they’re all team players. 
I don’t mind political gridlock, but I can not stand hypocrisy and inconsistency. 
Anyway, it doesn’t matter which political party started this abhorrent policy that separates parents from their kids… It doesn’t even matter who enforces it. 
One thing is clear. Our immigration system is broken. Frankly, I am annoyed with how we conduct ourselves when discussing major issues. Both extremes annoy the hell out of me. Both sides are centered around emotions rather than facts. 

Here are the facts that’ll surely piss off many Republicans and many Democrats. And I don’t care because it needs to be said. Firstly, Immigrants are good for the economy. Secondly, we need border security. Thirdly, a business owner can hire whoever they want. Fourthly, funneling welfare to illegal immigrants isn’t good. 

Here’s the reality of our immigration process… it is too complicated. Our immigration system is so convoluted and expensive it encourages illegal immigration. We should be encouraging immigrants to come through a checkpoint to have a disease check and a background check. The reason why I think we should simplify our immigration process, because if it’s simple and nearly risk-free if you’re a good clean person, then why would you need to sneak over? If you’re sneaking over, then you’re probably doing something shady. 
It would save a lot of money and a lot of time. 

We should have 4 tiers for immigrants. The 4 tiers should be tourists, education, work visas, and citizenship. You don’t need to hand out a citizenship to every immigrant that comes through. A citizenship should be earned. But you should be able to work here if you want to. 
The American dream should be something that everyone strives for. 

Each tier will have different benefits or terms. But they should be simple. If you purchase a tourist permit at the border checkpoint, you are free to travel anywhere in the United States you would legally be able to. But you must leave the country when your permit expires. You can purchase different durations at different rates. If you come on an education permit, you should again be able to travel freely, but maybe you should have to report periodically to make sure you’re actually here going to school. Maybe once a month or bi-monthly. If you come on a work visa, you should have the ability to travel, seek education, and of course earn a wage whether or not it is under the table. Within those three tiers, you won’t be rewarded with the same privileges all Americans have like voting. 
Then, of course, there is the citizenship. I don’t know the specific details of the requirements you’d need, but I’d imagine something like you need to have lived in the U.S. for a period of time, you should be free of any violent offenses, you should be able to vaguely described our constitution and system of government, then walla, you are entitled to every single right and privilege an American has.   
That’s just my idea to fix our immigration system. We don’t need to close off our borders and we sure as hell don’t need to open them right up. 
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