But then the slippery slope to credit and lending started and mortgages with ‘balloon’ payment were introduced. Or a ten percent down payment was acceptable and a ninety percent mortgage was agreed to or a second mortgage for the ten percent was negotiated at a lower interest rate. And so it went. In addition, over many years, the social foundation in America changed dramatically with such ‘wonderful’ introductions as Affirmative Action and even more so, ‘Victimhood’, an avoidance of responsibility. Nobody seems to be responsible for their own action anymore.

            Enter Freddie Mac (Federal Home Mortgage Corporation) and Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association). While the latter was established in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his New Deal and to establish local banks with federal money to finance home mortgages in an attempt to raise levels of home ownership and the availability of affordable housing. Thirty years later, another Democrat President, Lyndon B. Johnson converted the two companies into Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE’s) and they have operated as private enterprises and have been owned by shareholders, they are protected financially by the support of the Federal Government. These government protections include access to a line of credit through the U.S. Treasury, exemption from state and local income taxes and exemption from SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) oversight. Both, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are the only two Fortune 500 companies that are not required to inform the public about any financial difficulties they may have. Their combined dept is estimated to be equal to nearly fifty percent of the national debt. In numbers, that is about five trillion dollars.  Origins of Freddie and Fannie.

            With no SEC oversight, it fell upon Congress to monitor these two companies; and in hindsight, Congress did a lousy job. When Republicans in general including the President as well as Fed Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke asked for more oversight and regulations in light of some accounting scandals that became public knowledge in recent years, Democrats in Congress stopped their efforts repeatedly! They had an obvious motive: They wanted to protect prominent CEO’s of those companies who were Democrats and who had raided the companies and walked away with millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses. Case in point, Franklin Raines walked away with ninety million dollars during his six-year reign of Fannie Mae. The Democrats also wanted to continue the loose lending practices by Freddie and Fannie to continue in an effort to promote what we call ‘Social engineering’. When banks were pressured to provide mortgages to truly unqualified buyers – no down payment in cash – no way to make the mortgage payments – it was the beginning of the current crisis. The house of cards had to collapse eventually and now it has!

            So then, who is to blame? We know one thing for certain the American taxpayer will be burdened with the rescue. As we have witnessed, the U.S. Government has stepped in and taken on nearly a trillion dollars between the bailouts of AIG and others as well as the recently passed and signed “Rescue Plan” to allow the government to buy back bad loans and to encourage and stimulate the markets to lend money again on Wall Street, in other World financial markets and elsewhere. The Democrats in Congress have promised to investigate as to where blame for this mess can be assigned. Does anybody truly think that they will point the finger at themselves as long as they have President Bush to blame (even after he will be out of office)? They will not! So then, should we blame the people who signed for the loans knowing full well that they could not pay the mortgages back? Of course not, they were the ‘victims’ in this scandal, they were taken advantage of by greedy lenders and bankers. How about the lenders and bankers? Their defenses for these irresponsible lending practices will be that they were threatened by government agencies such as HUD (Urban Housing and Development), Freddie and Fannie and others to make these loans. How about real estate speculators and investors who bought houses on the cheep with low-adjustable loans and who renting these houses out and had the renters pay the mortgages? They walked away from their investments when interest rates increased and they could not get higher rents from their renters and that is how the overwhelming increase in foreclosures started and continued. But we cannot blame them, “they were trying to make a buck”.

            There is only one answer to the question whom to blame: It is ourselves! You and I, we the people of America let it happen. We the people allowed our elected officials to lead us onto this slippery slope of social engineering, equal opportunity for all, achieving the American dream and so on. Old values be damned, forget about common sense and individual responsibility. The intent is to share the dream with everybody. The only answer to this dilemma is to send Congress a very strong message: Do not vote for the incumbents this year! This might hurt some good ones but don’t worry about it, there are very few of them right now in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Let us all send a strong message and change Congress by voting for Non-Incumbents. They will recognize that they have two years (in the House) and six years (Senate) respectively to change things for the better of America and to get us back to the way things were once upon a time with such virtues as responsibility and personal accountability for actions taken.

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Accurate numbers are very hard to nail down so we will stay with approximations here. The war in Iraq is reportedly costing between ten and twelve billion dollars per month, an annual total of between 120 and 144 billion dollars. This is a large sum of money, no question about it. And since the Federal Government has not had a balanced budget for the past forty or more years, this amount is added annually to the national debt that is currently approaching 9.5 trillion dollars. That is a number 9 with 12 zeros behind it. Almost unimaginable but factual!

Now then, we came across a report entitled “What costs more per year than the Iraq War?” It was on a well sourced website and carries the above title. In 14 categories, it lists the costs spent annually on Illegal Aliens and then totals those numbers up to $338.3 billion. Please spend the time to visit this site and check the individual categories for yourselves. These expenses are being incurred not only by the Federal Government but shared with the States, County and City governments across the country. At the bottom of this article is a list of 49 United States Senators who voted during 2006 to extend Social Security Benefits to Illegal Aliens in 2008. The list includes 38 Democrats and 11 Republicans.

While costs are shared by Federal, State and local governments we have estimated the Federal share to be about 120 billion dollars (out of the total of $338 billion). That is almost the same amount the Iraq war is costing U.S. taxpayers annually. Of course, in Washington D.C., legislators are only concerned about the expenditures of the war and want to end the war as quickly as possible to save money. Democrats constantly whine about this money and elaborate on what better projects we could spend these amounts of ‘greenbacks’on. But not a word comes out of their mouths about the hidden costs to America for having millions of Illegal Aliens living in this country. To the contrary, liberals and even moderates believe that we cannot live without these people, which we would all starve because it’s these people who put food on our tables. If they would not be willing to work in the fields and harvest produce and fruit, we would have nothing to live on.

We here at Common Sense Politics have to simply shake our heads over such utter nonsense and wonder, once again, why they do not get challenged by the media when they make such ridiculous statements. To the contrary, the media membership is only too happy to cooperate with these folks and spread their words so that we all understand how important the Illegal Aliens (they do not call them that, they are simply undocumented workers) should be to all of us. While this is ludicrous, we have to wonder why the members of Congress are unable to legitimize these 12 to 20 millions undocumented workers without any great effort. And even go a step further and open our borders to all hardworking people around the world to come and “put food on our tables”. Bring them here as soon as we can process them, by giving them drivers’ licenses and citizenship without tests, etc….

Is this crazy or what? It lacks even the smallest degree of common sense! But these 535 elected officials in Congress have no problem telling us, the taxpayers of America, that we will not survive without millions of Illegal Aliens as they do the work Americans refuse to do. There is only one final question to ask after this: “Why are we collectively electing these people year after year to membership in Congress and reward them every couple of years with re-elections? There is no common sense answer to this!

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The most recent attempt to deal with the Immigration Reform in Congress failed last Thursday in the hallowed halls of the Senate of the United States of America! While it never came to a final vote on the proposed law, it did not receive the required sixty votes for cloture to cut of debate and was therewith effectively defeated. The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has now put the proposed law aside indefinitely since there are a great number of other matters that have to be dealt with in Congress.

When some of the titans in the Senate, among them Ted Kennedy and John McCain, decided earlier this year to draft a new Immigration Reform bill in cooperation with the White House, it was agreed to short-circuit conventional methodology to develop and process such a proposal. A group of about a dozen Senators worked on the draft behind closed doors and accepted input from designated representatives from the Bush administration, primarily Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Instead of letting the new law work its way through senatorial committees which is always very time consuming, the Kennedy/McCain group decided to do it more expediently and when finished, they went public with it.

First impressions and reactions were expectedly varied when people got a chance to read the details of this bill contained in more than four hundred pages of paper. While some hailed the proposal as a very comprehensive piece of legislation in that it addressed all the elements connected with immigration, others called it an outright ‘Amnesty bill’ and rejected everything about it. This resulted in a series of attempts to define “amnesty” on the part of the supporters of this legislation but as more and more details became publicly known, it appeared that the proposed bill included simply too many elements.

Yes, it included a concerted effort to secure our borders with Mexico with a multi-billion dollar allocation for just such work, on the other hand, the current crop of illegal immigrants in the country were all to be given a chance at a path to citizenship. These estimated twelve million people had to register with authorities for identification and background checks after which they were to receive some sort of temporary ‘z’ visas. These folks would also receive tamper-proof I.D. cards and employers would be held accountable for checking the legal status of work applicants. Violations would include heavy fines for employers. The proposed bill also included provisions for a guest-worker program, a pet project of President Bush, mainly for workers in the seasonal agricultural industry. Then provisions were added to process these immigrants on a so called ‘point-system’ where points were assigned to individuals based on their skills and professional abilities and experiences (more points for higher skill grades etc). Then the immigrants were also to pay fines for having entered the United States without proper papers and eventually (after 8 to 13 years) they could apply for and also receive citizenship in this country.

You get the gist of it? This proposed immigration bill was too comprehensive, it was too cumbersome and too all-inclusive to be practical and enforceable, as well as raising the public’s suspicions and skepticisms. The processing bureaucracy would be so overwhelming that it was doubtful that the new law’s could be truly implemented. But that did not stop the proponents of this bill from proceeding in the Senate. Objections by other Senators were initially disregarded and even lambasted as obstructionism. Other critics were told that this new bill was the last best chance for quite some time and that things would only get worse in America if not dealt with in this fashion NOW! The Senators on both sides eventually agreed to accept over twenty amendments for deliberations and the process continued. And so, for several weeks from late May until the end of June the ‘Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007’ was debated, altered, amended and voted upon in parts by the esteemed members of the United States Senate. On June 28, this debacle ended when a vote for cloture to end the debate (requiring by Senate procedures 60 votes in the affirmative) failed in that only 46 Senators voted for cloture.

What happened next was predictable: Instead of looking for answers to the question – What went wrong? – The first action by the bill’s proponents was to look for Who to fault for the failure! This is where it becomes comical, would you believe it was Talk-Radio? Yes, it is Rush Limbaugh and his numerous conservative radio talk-show hosts who are being blamed by the pundits and the bill’s proponents for the failure of passage of the proposed law! They apparently whipped up the public and encouraged them to call on their Senators to vote in the negative.

This requires us now to look at this final vote: As we know, there are 49 Democrats and 49 Republicans with 2 Independents completing the total number of 100 members in the Senate. With the absence of Senator Johnson, a Democrat from South Dakota, the remaining 99 members voted as follows:

33 Democrats, 12 Republicans and 1 Independent (Joe Lieberman from Connecticut) voted in favor of cloture. 37 Republicans, 15 Democrats and 1 Independent (Sanders of Vermont) voted against cloture. While it is true that the vast majority of Nay votes came from Republicans, it is quite a stretch to believe that Rush Limbaugh and his talk-radio buddies convinced 15 Democrats to vote Nay. Among the 15 Democrats were such staunch liberals as Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia and Tom Harkin from Iowa.

It is of course not at all uncommon to look for blame elsewhere when things go wrong but to blame talk radio is quite a stretch. Had the Democrat leadership in the Senate held their caucus together, the cloture vote would have received the number of votes required to proceed and we would have had by now a new ‘Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007’ ready for the President’s signature. The fact remains, the legislation died due to its own complexity, fogginess in content, and parallel efforts to secure our borders while providing a path to U.S. citizenship for these millions of illegals was cause for a general distrust by the public questioning rightfully that it would be implemented and enforced. Coupled together with an uneasy feeling about making over 12 million people who are in this country illegally with the stroke of the pen “Legal” drew the reaction by citizens who called the Senate offices and sent e-mails and letters. A great number among the ‘No-voting’ Democrats were freshman Senators who are not up for re-election until 2012 but they felt compelled to listen to the concerns of their constituents.

Some of the skepticism was based on the fact that the ‘Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986’ included similar elements as were in this bill. This 21 year old law is still on the books and with the exception of granting amnesty to about 3 million illegal immigrants and ‘giving them a path to citizenship’, the other provisions in that bill such as border security and tough sanctions against employers who hired illegal aliens were never enforced. Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton and the current President Bush did not enforce these provisions that are still on the books. But neither did Congress do its job in overseeing the implementation of laws they pass!

 To us here at ‘Back to Common Sense’it would be a giant step forward if the current Administration would tighten the borders and submit the appropriate funding requirements to Congress. Once such an effort becomes reality and the citizens of the country see results and the seriousness on the part of the government, another attempt should be made to bring the other elements of such Immigration Reform legislation for consideration in Congress. If it cannot be done all at once, bring it up in a logically proper piece-meal basis. We have to tackle this problem but do it with common sense and rationale. Once the border is much more secure, try to deal with tamper-proof ID cards and employer sanctions for non-compliance, bring the 12 million individuals out of the shadows by allowing them to stay here (after background checks etc), but do not immediately try and give them a path to citizenship! Let that be the last thing you tackle! Do not think of these people as potential future voters, that smacks heavily of hypocrisy and ulterior motivation and Americans are too smart not to notice that fishy smell! 

This article and others on Back to Common Sense are designed to provoke further thought and investigation.   It is not the intent for the articles to be politically biased. Sources are referenced in each article to encourage readers to delve into the supporting material.  We welcome all readers to participate with their point of view either in support or contrary with additional information sources.

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Nearly three months ago, in fact it was on January 2, we posted an article entitled: What should be done to fix our Immigration issue?  We stated facts and even had a long list of strong suggestions that in our view had the potential to lead to solving the immigration problems. With the Democrats now in control of Congress, we expected this issue to receive top priority status but so far, whatever has taking place has been pretty well below the radar screen of public attention. In Congress, it is known as “now being worked on in Committee”. Our elected officials do not want it made public what they are thinking of, what they are proposing and who is for something and who is against the same thing and vice versa. They also do not want us to know what kind of ‘horse-trading’ is going on between the members in the House and the Senate. How much involvement the White House has in these stages of “Law-making” activities is also unknown.

           
But we can expect to hear at some time in the future, near or distant, that a certain structure for the new Immigration bill is taking shape and that the appropriate committees in the House and the Senate are getting closer to reaching a consensus. Maybe, some provisions will be floated into the public via the media to gage the public’s reaction, polls will be taken, their results published and so on and so on. This is not at all unusual because it has been done for as long as there has been a legislative branch in our country. Maybe, there is no better way than this to develop new law and to develop it behind closed doors.

Meanwhile, some municipalities and companies have taken baby-steps to flush out ‘illegal aliens’ much to the dismay of the Hispanic population and its vocal representatives. For instance, the town of Mission Viejo in Orange County, California has requested from its contractors to check their employee records and to verify that there are no undocumented workers on their payrolls. In addition, border patrols are being stepped up along the border with Mexico and in some places fences are being built along the border as well. But all this does not mean much in the larger scheme of things and it will be up to the Congress and the White House to come with new laws to deal with the Immigration issue in a comprehensive way. Time will tell and in the meantime, illegal border crossings continue.

What is truly surprising and frustrating to a great extent is the fact that the new President of Mexico is criticizing the President and the United States as a sovereign country for wanting to secure our borders. He, President Juan Calderon, as did his predecessor Vicente Fox, does not want us to build more fences and walls, he wants us to legalize their citizens who have come here Illegally and to welcome them with open arms, after all and we quote: “they do the work that regular Americans will not do.” What gall by this guy whose country’s economic system and corruption does not provide enough jobs for these people and allows them to live in true poverty and under squalor conditions. This forces these people out of sheer desperation to provide for their families to break the laws of the United States, to live here in a shadowy existence, risking daily to be arrested for being here illegally but considering it the lesser evil than to see their families starve at home. The money these illegal aliens sent back home to their relatives is one of the greatest sources of income for the Mexican economy.

Shame on you, President Calderon! What right do you have to make demands of us as a neighboring country, why don’t you go to work on the reportedly corrupt system in your country and build an economy that will provide jobs for all your people in your country. Your inaction, intentional or not, is making lawbreakers out of millions of your countrymen and all you can do is criticize the United States? While you want us to keep an open border policy when it comes to your country, you seem to have plenty of money to protect your southern borders with Guatemala and Belize and treating everybody who comes across it illegally and without proper papers as criminals. Again, shame on you! When you hosted President Bush earlier this month in your country, you should have thanked him publicly for the patience this country has shown in dealing with your countrymen who come here illegally because they starve under your economic system. But no, you did not do this. Instead you made demands of President Bush and openly criticized him for not making your countrymen legal citizens of America. Once more, shame on you, Senor Calderon! By revisiting our article of January 2 of this year, some of our recommendations might have been a little bit strong. But how do you make new law where all is forgiven and we turn these millions of people into American citizens. How does that stop another twenty or more millions of Mexican citizens from coming over here in the near future? At a minimum, whatever new Immigration Reform bill comes out of Congress and will be signed by the President into law has to have the following eight provisions without a particular priority:

• Do not allow those who came illegally into this country to become U.S. citizens for at least 25 years, they can live here perfectly well as legal aliens with green cards for many years, but citizenship should not be granted automatically or after a few years;

• They have to pay an appropriate fine for entering this country without proper entry permits (i.e. visas and Green cards) and have to have a job here;

• They will receive fraud proof identity cards or certificates;

• They have to register within one year or such time where they can be registered and processed by the Immigration office personnel;

• They will be severe punishments including prison terms for those who do not come forward and register;

• Our border with Mexico will have to be protected most efficiently to prevent another flow of more people entering here illegally, those who are coming here from now on will be dealt with severely with extended prison terms and deportation;

• Additional provisions for children who are here with their parents under the age of 18 who should be allowed to become U.S. citizens after meeting some conditions;

• Parents or elderly people living with their relatives here will have to be processed as well and will not be eligible for Social Security or Medicare benefits to which they did not contribute for many years prior.

Anything less will have to be considered nothing more than an amnesty program and it will not solve any problems in the short term or in the long run. This is not a minor issue and all attempts to “humanize it” by calling these people simply ‘undocumented individuals’ or some such thing will not prevent us from an explosion of our population by millions and millions. We also have to remember that we are not just talking about people from Mexico but also from many other countries around the world. Anybody who can fly into Mexico as a visitor and who then crosses the border to America is here illegally if not in possession of visas and work permits. An Open border policy is the worst that could happen if not strongly dealt with when the Immigration Reform bill is signed and put into effect. All we can do for the time being is stay alert as to when things break in Congress and new Immigration law provisions being made public.

This article and others on Back to Common Sense are designed to provoke further thought and investigation.   It is not the intent for the articles to be politically biased. Sources are referenced in each article to encourage readers to delve into the supporting material.  We welcome all readers to participate with their point of view either in support or contrary with additional information sources.

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     Some time in October of last year (2006), we passed a milestone in terms of population in that we reached the 300 million mark in America for the first time. And if we are honest about it, were this country to open up its borders to everyone worldwide desiring to come, live and work here, our population would exceed the populations of China and India in less than two years. This is a scary thought and should show us the importance of securing our borders and enforcing our immigration laws.

     The ever-growing and interspersed issues involving immigration, border controls and what to do about illegal aliens in this country appear to be too big to be handled comprehensively and correctly by lawmakers on all sides of the political spectrum. The irony is, everybody talks about it but nothing is done about it with the lone exception of apparently inadequate funding for new border fences and temporary border assignments of National Guard troops in several states bordering Mexico.

     To understand the current arguments on both sides of the issues, we have to go back in history by twenty years and summarize the ‘Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986’, also known as IRCA. This act was created with the intent to reduce illegal immigration to the United States, which was generally perceived to be an economic problem for the national economy. The new law established a one-year amnesty program for illegal immigrants who lived in the States for several years and were working. It was estimated at the time that there were about 2.7 million illegal aliens in America and they were subsequently processed to become legal aliens and also given a path to citizenship. The law also mandated stronger border controls and tough penalties for employers who hired illegal aliens from that time forward.

     While the illegal aliens were processed to become legal residents, stronger border controls and tougher penalties for violating employers were not seriously enforced and that brought another huge wave of illegal immigration in the years since. The number for this group is now estimated to be between 11 and 13 million, i.e. four times the initial number of people. Over the years, the governments in Mexico have quietly encouraged illegal border crossings by these millions and the monies sent back by these people is reportedly the third largest income producing element of the Mexican economy (behind oil exports and tourism). The Mexican economy cannot produce the jobs required to feed their people so these individuals come to where the jobs are – this side of the border. They are in the vast majority hard working persons who are filling jobs in some industries like agriculture, food processing facilities, landscaping and housecleaning and other service jobs. These people surely do not like to be here illegally but, on balance, they see a greater need for feeding their families and therefore take the risks involved in illegally entering this country. They have a solid understanding of what is right and what is wrong because of their upbringing with strong family values based and anchored in their religion and traditions.

     So, what to do now? Forget another amnesty bill argues one side (it did not work the last time) while the other side wants to put these 11-13 millions on a path to citizenship. Some feel that we should just round up the Illegals and send them back across the border or where they came from while others say: We need these people, they do the work Americans will not do. And so the debates go on and on as are the attempts by the President and Congress to address this national problem.

     A more comprehensive, and in our opinion more common-sensical, approach should be based on law and justice without emotion! Let us establish some basic facts first: If we ignore students, visitors and others temporarily living here, we have in the
United States people who can be categorized as follows:

v     American citizens by birth or naturalization,

v     Legal aliens with “Green cards” who are permitted to live and work here based on visa permits and other immigration processes,

v     Illegal aliens who came here, as the word says: Illegally because they broke U.S. Immigration laws!

     This group in the third category is simply too large to just round up and send back home, on the other hand their law-breaking should not be forgiven by way of amnesty or conversion to some temporary work related permitting process by giving them guest-worker visas. Besides, a large group will not see a benefit to them in this and will therefore continue to live in the shadow of ‘non-existence’ with false or no papers and passports etc. If we want to address this problem seriously and meaningful, we believe that it will take the following seven points to achieve this goal:

1.      Grant legal alien status (Green cards) to all those who are currently here illegally (Yes, it is as much our fault as theirs in that we allowed this to happen by not controlling our borders effectively) with the following provisions:

a.                   They must have been here at least one year,

b.                  They must have a job or be willing to get a job,

c.                   They will pay a fine of $5,000.00 (on payment schedule) for illegally entering the United States,

d.                  They will Not be allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship for at least 25 years,

e.                   They will receive fraud-proof identity cards or certificates,

f.                    They will enjoy all the benefits of legal residency in the United States, just not as citizens, i.e., they cannot vote or run for office,

g.                   They will be processed swiftly within a short period of time by adding personnel to the Immigration and Naturalization agencies offices,

h.                   They have to swear to abide the laws of this country,

i.                     They have to attempt to learn to speak and read English.

2.      Those who do not come forward and register to receive their legal status within one year will, once identified, automatically receive a three year prison term with Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona (as outlined in #6 below) after which they will be sent back to their country of origin.

3.      Those who are living here with family and have children under the age of 15 will be granted the following exception: Their children can apply for
U.S. citizenship after having received a high school diploma and go on to college or have a job.

4.      Establish annual immigration quotas for neighboring countries based on verifiable industry needs and process these work related visas in their country of origin promptly.

5.      Employers will pay severe fines and penalties (including prison terms) for hiring illegals since fraud-proof identity cards and papers will be issued.

6.      Tighten the borders to our neighboring countries so that the continuous flow of illegal aliens will be stopped. Those who are caught trying to come across the border in this manner should be arrested and get an automatic three year prison sentence in the
Arizona desert. In other words, they would get a bed in a tent with a pink outfit in a camp run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Mariposa County. Nationalize these prison camps and pay for them with federal dollars.

7.      Strong enforcement of the above provisions by the appropriate agencies of the executive branch and equally strong oversight by the legislative branch of the U.S.Government.

     A new law based on the above provisions would solve the problems of the issues relating to immigration etc and it should be acceptable by all parties. It is a mixture of benefits and punishment based on law. The benefits are very large for all parties involved. The current millions of illegal aliens would no longer live in the shadow of society but enjoy the benefits of their new legal status. The penalty of not being allowed citizenship for 25 years should be acceptable by them since they did violate the laws of this country when entering illegally. Furthermore, the above provisions should stem the flow of future illegal border crossings since the price is too high, i.e., the three-year prison term when caught and since hiring will be so much more difficult, they will be encouraged to come here legally!

     Some politicians might not like this provision because they would like this group to attain all of the rights of a naturalized American immediately.  Let’s remind these “offended politician” that certain rights aren’t granted to everyone that becomes a citizen now, ie;  must be born in America to become President.  The bottom line is that this soon-to-be-legalized group should not be pandered to by politicians for any reasons.  The waiting period would solve this while still providing legal status.

     Every person elected by voters to public office swears at the beginning of his term of service to “Uphold the laws of this country”. If laws are made based on truth and justice (and we might add: common sense) and also in accordance with the provisions of the United States Constitution, the immigration related problems would be dealt with appropriately and permanently and should bring a stop to the continuing illegality of not respecting other countries borders. It will be interesting to wait and see now what Congress (under new leadership) comes up with.  We here at Back to Common Sense can only hope that politicians will put personal preferences and interests aside and do what is right for America!
     This article and others on Back to Common Sense are designed to provoke further thought and investigation.   It is not the intent for the articles to be politically biased. Sources are referenced in each article to encourage readers to delve into the supporting material.  We welcome all readers to participate with their point of view either in support or contrary with additional information sources.

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