Speaking Out for Immigration Enforcement, Part VI
The confusion produced over the Strive Act is found all over the immigration issue. I have posted concerns about the Strive Act based on two simple points. The open borders crowd was vehemently opposed to HR 4437 or perhaps any immigration control. If you voted no on HR 4437 and support the Strive Act like most of the co-sponsors of the bill, that should be reason enough to be worried about the Strive Act being toothless. The second 
point is the Strive Act does not spell out strong financial disincentives for employers hiring illegal immigrants. All we could find was mention of requiring employers to make a good faith effort to not hire illegals which is nothing more than a pass for employers to continue as before.
Like those pushing for strict immigration enforcement in Washington this week, we agree that enforcement is the key to immigration control. Passing another piece of legislation that is not enforced accomplishes nothing. Pass nothing or pass HR 4437 or simply enforce the laws we have or create in the future. No amnesty or amnesty masquerading as a path to citizenship. Crippling financial penalties and jail time for employers who hire illegal immigrants that will dry up the illegal job market and reduce the illegal immigrant population. The states are moving on these issues due to the crushing burden of doing nothing like the federal government. No offense to ICE, but they are left with an impossible task. To eliminate the problem by themselves is unrealistic.
Stanford Matthews
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Immigrants will benefit from STRIVE Act
Our view: The immigration proposal is far from perfect, but to say that it will bring about a police state is going too far
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.23.2007In the highly charged debate over illegal immigration, inflammatory rhetoric is not exclusive to the ship-’em-all-home, build-a-wall, close-the-border activists. Groups supposedly on the side of the immigrants often sound equally unreasonable and could hinder efforts to pass meaningful and effective immigration reforms in Congress.
Members of the Tucson-based Coalition for Human Rights, or Coalición de Derechos Humanos, and the May 1st Coalition purport to be on the side of illegal immigrants. But by opposing the STRIVE Act now working its way through Congress, those groups are on the wrong side, we believe. The act is a well-reasoned and comprehensive plan for the 12 million or so illegal immigrants in the United States.
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