by Ashiqul Saiyed

Created on: August 08, 2007   Last Updated: November 27, 2007

Practicable Solution To Immigration Standstill

America's face value is life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. The power of America emanates from the respect for the individual; the infrastructure of America is individual rights and freedom. America's infrastructure is far more important than punishing 12.1 undocumented aliens and now demands a practicable solution to Immigration Standstill. Therefore, this issue has to be solved. At present no one has come out with a clear and practicable idea as how to deal with this issue.

To preserve and maintain Quality American Life, overpopulation and cheap labor have to stop and most Americans want this to happen. If these undocumented aliens are legalized in some fashion, as I am proposing in this article, some of the good things that can happen are: (1) most of the people will be documented, border infiltration will be highly discouraged and shall stop over time, (2) wage exploitation might stop, (3) IRS will receive revenue in billions, (4) travel and tourism shall increase and as a result, businesses will bolster and more jobs will be created and very importantly, (5) Social Security and Medicare will be protected.

One of the reasons that the Immigration Reform failed in the Senate was for the fact that most conservatives were adamant not to grant any kind of concession to the undocumented aliens until and unless the borders are fenced and secured. Actually, it was meant to stop the flow of people entering into the United States illegally by securing the borders with fences. They are right in that sense. Because if the flow of illegal intrusion is not stopped, granting any kind of concession to the undocumented aliens will not solve the immigration problem that needs to be addressed more urgently right now than at any other time. However, they are not right in the sense that securing the vast borders with fences is not a pragmatic idea. Fences are destructible; they can be blown off, torn down, or destroyed by natural causes. Preservation and maintenance of the fences would require 24-hour surveillance and deterrence against any kind of subversive or destructive attempts to the fences, and cost, time and effort wise that would be staggering.

The challenge of building, preserving and maintaining the fences reminds me of a story: Shoes were not invented then. A king, who had always walked on carpets, could not resist the urge to walk on the ground one day and had dusts on his feet. He got very angry at the dusts and wanted

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