I am RICHARD BOWER based in united kingdom,am 38years
old,am into art and interior dealer.
I sell all my art work world wild mostly in the
united state of america.
I will need an agent in the state to help me out due
to when my client are ready to pay me out for my work
overthere because the mostly pay via a certified
checks and money orders which is not acceptable here
in united kingdom.so i need an agent overthere to be
recieving the payment on my behalf…on each payment
thats comes through you..you will be deducting %10
after cashing the check and send the balance to the
company via western union.
Please if you are interested please try to fill
out this form and mail to me for me to file in as my
agent overthere in the state.

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Thanks and stay bless

Richard Bower

richardcomp500@yahoo.com

Why not put your plan up as a ballot initiative and see how that turkey doesn’t fly. Why? Because there are many of us who believe in the concept of a nation-state and have little patient for the line-jumpers. Why not interview some legal immigrants who waited up to 5 years to enter the US? You can start with my wife and her family.

What I have voiced as my solution to the “immigrant problem” also seems to be unpopular with the anti-immigrantion crowd. This is a policy that would seem to fit alongside the plan you outlined:
If we do not want to be flooded with folks from other countries (e.g., Mexico), the best way to prevent it is for the U.S. to do everything we can to raise the living standard in the other countries. I don’t belive that people leave their homes and families simply because they have wanderlust. They come to the U.S. because they are leaving a place of no opportunity for what they see as a land of opportunity. Or perhaps because they are literally starving. My ancestors were certainly not welcomed when they arrived here, but they left Ireland anyway because conditions there at that time were so terrible. Even if the standard of living were raised only slightly & remained far below that in the U.S., just a slight increase in the quality of life in their home country should substantially reduce the numbers deciding to leave home. That reduces the number coming to the U.S. for no reason other than an attempt to escape dire poverty & perhaps the ones that still come to the U.S. would truly see this as a better place.

Now why not setup a Google alert for “Nuevo Laredo” and then begin to read about the future of your own country? because this is an example of what is attempting to gain access to the US and their task is made far easier by lax border security.

People in Mexico should have no more rights to enter, live and work in the US than people from any other country, to suggest that they should is racism. There are numerous ways that an individual from another country may gain the right to live and work in the US, sure these processes could be improved and simplified and I am all for that.

However anyone entering US territory without passing through and being approved by an immigration officer becomes an “illegal alien” and this is a simple fact of law and history. The US has (by some estimates) 20 million such individuals within its borders.

Because they have entered illegally nobody knows anything about their criminal history (if any) whether they are convicted child abusers, pimps, gangsters, drugs and arms smugglers, do they? Furthermore the lax border is being used right now, by a great number of non-Mexicans from Colombia, El Salvador and many of these are ruthless gangsters who have no fear of what we call “law and order” and indeed regularly place a “bounty” on the heads US border patrol officers.

As someone why entered the US legally and lives here legally I take great issue with this, because the southern states are unprotected from this and far too many (including you Sir) prefer to view this as some philosophical discussion, greatly distorting the harsh reality.

Hugh

“I would suggest the funds be split 50/50 between state and local governments
to offset any disproportionate use of services by new immigrants.”

Have you got any statistics for that? Why do we assume or accept the argument that immigrants use more local services than natives? I’m not saying they don’t, I just want to resist rushing to judgement without real data. Most come here to work, not to raise a family, so I’d suggest that they use schools at lower rates than natives. They commit fewer crimes, so less police required than natives. They probably carpool or walk, so they don’t add much to congestion or road wear.

The only thing I can think of is that they probably use the emergency room as their primary care facility more often than average natives (but this is no different than poor natives). If that’s so, why not let them keep part of their payroll deduction, but mandate that they carry catastrophic health insurance (you know, true insurance, not the premium healthcare that covers everything that people like to think of as insurance) as part of the immigration deal? This could be a stalking horse to get Ronald Bailey’s idea* adopted for the rest of us in lieu of national healthcare (an idea that just won’t die).

Requiring them to sign up with the provider of their choice and pay the first 6 months’ premium is a reasonable price to entry in lieu of what they are currently paying to coyotes (no offense), smugglers, forgers, etc. After all, Gary Becker thinks that they should be able to bid for the right to immigrate, and that $50,000 may be a low bid!**

* Bailey’s article in Reason: http://www.reason.com/0411/fe.rb.mandatory.shtml
** Becker’s article at http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/02/sell_the_right.html

Well said, and that’s actually a full, comprehensive, implementable proposal. You show (yet again) why I keep coming back to read here

For a classical liberal’s thoughts on this, check out my post over at The Liberty Papers:

http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/05/01/immigration-the-american-dream/

“I don’t care if polygamy is illegal because I think it should be legal.”

“I don’t care if spousal rape is illegal because I think it should be legal.”

“I don’t think tax evasion is illegal because I think it should be legal.”

Etc., etc. ad infinitum.