Editor:

This really should not be the complex mess that it has become. If you break the law, you should get punished. If you follow the rules and succeed, you should be celebrated. We cannot allow illegal immigrants to benefit from their lawbreaking behavior the same as legal immigrants succeed by following the rules.

Step One: Seal the border. Fence it, Guard it. Children of illegals born in the U.S. are declared not to be U.S. citizens from this point forward and will be deported with their families like any illegal.

Step Two: Once Step One is complete, begin issuing work visas. They apply for the waiting list and those with clean records get processed first. Those that have a sketchy record get determined on a case by case basis but serious criminals would be denied outright. Guest workers would need a company to sponsor them to come work. That company is responsible for their being here. A guest work would have a review every 6 mos to be able to change companies if they so desired but could return home any time. If the sponsor company terminates their employment, the guest worker would have 1 week to find another sponsor before having to return home the following week. Guest workers would pay taxes into the Social Security System like any American Citizen but would not reap the benefits of the programs unless they eventually became a citizen.

Step Three: After a five year period, any illegals found at this point would be rejected from ever participating in the guest worker program and would be denied any path to citizenship….ever. Guest workers with a good 5 year history of working, paying their taxes, and not getting into trouble would be given a path to citizenship.

Step Four: Set up a holding facility in a remote area in the middle of nowhere. This will be a holding pen where we process captured illegals. 3 months of holding where we fingerprint, take DNA and create a dossier on each one before sending them home at their expense while confiscating all property on their person. Second time they are held 6 mos. This cutoff of income to their families will be punishment enough and word will quickly spread.

This seems like a pretty fair system to me. The purpose is to create a deterrent and encourage people to follow the rules. Do our companies need these workers? Absolutely. Crops are rotting in the fields but partially due to politics. Many of these companies pay guest workers more than minimum wage now and even give them housing (Even at $17/hr, Farms Can’t Fill Jobs, Wall Street Journal, 13Aug2015). This program could allow companies to go to Mexico and recruit seasonal guest workers, transport them, pay them, and house them all while helping our economy and easing tax burdens on American Citizens.

The Lone Horseman