Cha-Ching

By Ron Dupuis

“Cha-Ching! Cha -Ching!
That’s the sound of the United States taxpayer’s cash register every time it has to pay for service’s provided for illegal aliens. The conservative estimates are that over 12 million illegal aliens currently reside in the United States. Almost all receiving some sort of “social service’s” paid for by the U.S. taxpayer. Additionally, there are approximately 1100 illegals sneaking across the border every day in order to apply for those U.S. benefits.
Cha-Ching! Cha-Ching!
What we need is a little common sense thinking. A migrant worker here to help with the lettuce or tomato crop a few months out of the year does not have to bring his entire family. Programs in other countries are designed to make it economically viable to import workers, give them a good standard of living while here, then return them home with enough cash to raise their economic position, have been in place for years.

I don’t know of any American who is opposed to people legally entering this country in order to escape deplorable economic conditions in their own land. In fact, most Americans that I have spoken with feel that if some social service type assistance is needed in order to start a new life, so be it. The problem is that waves of illegals entering through our porous borders are not only destroying the very programs designed to help them, they are impacting the quality of life they seek here. We are a compassionate people. We simply cannot afford to maintain the standard of living we all enjoy in America while providing for these illegals and their families.

Congress is attempting to resolve this problem. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was an attempt to comprehensively address the issue of illegals entering this country. It was designed to punish corporations for hiring undocumented aliens, strengthen our border enforcement, and expand a path to citizenship for three million illegals already living here. If all of this sounds familiar to you, if may because the current legislation being debated in Congress is pretty much the same as that 1986 Act. Only now there are over twelve million illegals living in this country. It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.

If it takes ten thousand new border patrol agents, a barrier the size of the Great Wall of China, or the 2nd Marine division in full battle array, what Congress needs to do is close the borders and close them immediately. Then, and only then, can we resolve to question of illegals workers and their families living on the U.S. taxpayers dollar.
Cha-Ching!