As we make way for the new year, the U.S. has two major immigration challenges. The first is the logistical nightmare of deporting 12.5 million illegal aliens that the Biden-Harris administration, in coordination with the thoroughly corrupt Alejandro Mayorkas, allowed to cross our borders. During their dreadful four-year reign, damage to American society has been extraordinary when you add up the level of crime including murders, sex-trafficking and child exploitation, rape, and drugs and drug-related deaths; and the sheer cost to municipal and state governments of housing and feeding these illegals.
The second challenge is the need for the U.S. to import legal workers (hence, not technically immigrants) to meet labor shortages and to help expand the economy.
The solution is in sight
These two challenges potentially can be harnessed to solve each other. Despite estimates that $88 billion will be need annually to deport only one million illegals, there is a more viable solution. The U.S. could dramatically expand its worker permit program to attract fully vetted, hard-working individuals. They would apply for the program after returning to their home country, given that they have resided there for a minimum number of weeks or months. Hence overall deportation costs could decline enormously.
We would give these individuals the opportunity to participate in the system if they first return home, voluntarily. Illegal residence in the U.S., prior to a set date would not be a disqualifier. These individuals, once qualified, would then be accepted on a first-come, first serve basis.
The work permits preferably would fall under a current worker program or a new one to be established. The permit would be valid for a finite term and potentially renewable based on uninterrupted employment and good conduct by participants.
The rational here is that many immigrants want to work and to lead productive lives, not take handouts or commit crimes. So, if returning home leads to such chances they might voluntary flock home quickly to attain an optimal place in the queue.
A holding facility for beneficial purposes
Less attractive but still viable would be to have such individuals report to facilities in, say, Texas. They would be processed for either a work permit or for repatriation, with no priority status over those who voluntarily return to their homeland and applied early.
Within such facilities, if individuals are found to be ineligible for work permits they would be shipped out. If they are eligible for work, but wait-listed, they might still be shipped to their homelands or to somewhere outside of the U.S. to wait their turn.
As a possible alternative for these individuals, if qualified, they would be given the opportunity to serve for an extended period in the U.S. armed forces. After such time they could become eligible to become permanent residents.
A worthy net effect
This expanded worker permit program offers several benefits. First, significant numbers of otherwise productive illegals might voluntarily return home (or to a holding facility). This would mitigate U.S. Homeland’s overwhelming task of finding and deporting them. Concurrently, many would now be on the path of coming back to the U.S. as productive, tax paying residents.
The return of the productive, (formerly) illegal workers, as well as the arrival of immigrants and workers who have waited patiently to enter the U.S. legally, would help to address labor shortages and contribute to an incipient economic boom.
Such developments would also make the job of finding and deporting non-productive and criminal illegals exponentially easier. What’s more, a notable reduction of illegal crossings would shrink a huge profit center for violent and rapacious cartels which have become a malignant cancer on both U.S. and Mexican societies.
The sooner this process is initiated, the sooner the overwhelming cost of dealing with the Biden-induced immigration invasion will plummet.
Hammering out the details
Would these workers take U.S. citizen’s jobs? Likely not. The removal of unproductive and criminal aliens, coupled with the return of the productive former illegals would contribute to an economy ready to blossom, thus creating a bigger pie (not a zero sum game) for all to prosper. Additionally, newly permitted workers who receive a taxable wage add to our Treasury’s coffers and these much needed newfound revenues advance the greater good.
The details need to be hashed out, but the underlying premise remains solid. Create a program whereby illegals, if qualified, can re-enter the U.S. and hold viable, good-paying jobs and actually contribute to our economy. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of unproductive individuals or criminals are deported. When Homeland Security's task noticeably becomes more effective and efficient, we all benefit.
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