From: Luis Felipe Molina [mailto:lfmolinat@sulanet.net]
Date: Friday, May 12, 2006 11:15 AM
To: vice_president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: LAW AND ORDER AT THE SOUTH BORDER
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Either declaration of legality is supported by several circumstances, including:
- Illegality in this case has been shared by a number of commercial employers and
individual citizens who provide jobs to illegal workers
- The People has accepted / tolerated this irregular situation
- It appears as if the Government did not fully enforced regulations against this situation
- This multi-sector, shared responsibility has evolved for many decades
- American Law is a means for providing justice, and the will of the People, as
expressed in the Constitution, is that justice is provided with equality to all -
including foreigners in American soil. If a violation of law deserves to be penalized,
all involved ought be penalized or nobody
- Border Patrol’s improved procedures detect, apprehend and deport aliens with criminal
records, and this must be continued; whereas unofficial immigration has caused no actual
harm: Illegal workers, who aspire to be accepted as legal immigrants, have contributed
increasingly to American productivity and well being: Beneficial economic effects are
not negligible and have a propensity to decrease inflation and, therefore, to lower interest
rates, and consequently bolster investment, employment and fiscal income.
These immigrant workers’ contributions should be welcome continuously in an orderly
fashion, because the more the great US economy develops and the US population
grows the larger the number of immigrant workers needed in preserving a constant
contribution of the labor force to overall productivity, economic stability and
prosperity.
The ‘orderly fashion’ of the future basically may be accomplished by issuance of a
“Temporary Work Search Permit” (TWSP) to each individual foreign worker at
entrance, under the “Foreign Workers Program” mentioned in comment (3) below. These
permits would also serve as IDs and include photo, finger prints, initial US address,
foreign passport number, and would be issued to would-be workers with no criminal
records and meeting other eligibility norms. Each TWSP would expire in a number of
months specified in the permit. During that period of time the would-be worker would
need to (1) find a job and report it, (2) leave the country if no job is obtained or (3)
request an extension of time to continue seeking employment. Changes of addresses
would also need to be reported. An automatic extension for a number of years would be
granted when a job is reported. The worker would not need to have a tentative job as
to be issued the permit at entrance, but would need to abandon the country or be
deported if not working or not having an extension of time. Re-enter permits may be also
granted a number of times. During a valid permit or extension, the worker would be
allowed to travel abroad for vacation or other needs.
A legal worker could eventually apply for permanent residence and citizenship, but
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