My first controversy (of many I hope)

I do not agree with many conservatives on immigration. I think we have to come up with a good way to protect our borders from those that actually intend harm to our domestic tranquility while allowing a good flow of ready; willing labor to fill jobs otherwise difficult to fill. Perhaps at some point in the future, terrorists will try to sneak in across our open borders with our neighbors, but at this point, the terrorists all have come in legally and usually overstayed their visas. Most of the ones sneaking across the border are poor Latin Americans seeking to better themselves through work.

With these poor immigrant laborers tend to come demands on our social programs. The solution here is not to keep out the potential liabilities from immigrant families, but instead to make the immigrants or their employers pay for the costs on society of this labor. Whether it is in the form of enforced insurance for immigrants or special excises on immigrant labor paid into the Medicare and Medicaid programs; this will erase some of the more egregious problems with this group of immigrants. First it will raise the cost of immigrant labor to more in line (if not above) that of citizens who seek or hold similar positions and it will pay for the

I will spend more time speaking about many of the problems I have personally with permitted immigrants in a separate posting. In yet another one I will discuss unemployed US Citizens, employed foreign nationals, and our domestic policy over both. Yes we have a migrant population. Many among us have not a clue.