How to fix illegal immigration

Lars Larson, as usual, says it best. Essentially, he said the two following things to prevent illegal immigration:

"1) Make it so you are unable to obtain a driver's license if your name and Social Security number don't match up.

2) Make it so businesses are unable to deduct the wages of employees who have no matching name and Social Security number."

Like Lars, I know that this will make illegal immigration drop so fast, because the only reason the United States welcomes them with open arms is because of cheap labor. If they were unable to deduct wages from illegal immigrants, the businesses could say bye-bye to that. If they can't use a car, and lack an American ID, what are they going to do? If they can't get Medicare benefits, what are they going to do?

"But Ticker, yada yada, cheap labor helps the economy, blah blah." Think about it; Medicare and Social Security already have problems. Right now, sure, it provides cheapened work efforts...but in twenty years, it will come crashing back down, when Social Security AND Medicare hit their debts. It will result in an additional TWO AND A HALF TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT. Right now, in a war time, we are closing on five trillion. Illegal immigration is as dangerous as war is to our economy.

And guess what the government is doing instead of realizing this? They're putting through a half-written bill (which has only been read by a few of the members passing it) to make all illegal immigrants LEGAL IMMEDIATELY.

I'm tired of the government trying to put things in place instead of these two things. Let's NOT make every single illegal immigrant legal all of a sudden, like we're doing AGAIN, shall we? That's a slap in the face to every person who goes through the trouble of coming legally. They're thinking "Just have to wait 20 years before I'll be legal...I won't have to go through all that crap in legal immigration!"

That's what we're saying to them. That's the message we're sending. If we're not going to do those TWO EASY STEPS, at least make the border impossible to cross. Period. It's that or making illegal immigration climb higher with that kind of message we've been conveying since the 1980s.

Illegal immigration is not a double-edged sword; it's an evil that must be dealt with. Let's not perpetuate it.