RE: So What Do They Mean By "Secure" the Border?
June 25, 2014 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2014 at 9:43 am by Heywood.)
(June 24, 2014 at 10:39 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(June 24, 2014 at 10:26 pm)Heywood Wrote: Yes....educate their children, I would even go as far as providing them medical care. After they are here long enough(say supporting themselves for 10 years)....give them permanent resident status and then maybe other entitlements(like the universal basic income I advocate).Permanent resident status after ten years? Why not citizenship and after 3 or four years not 10?
The point is let them come here to work. Don't let them come in for a free lunch.
10 is an arbitrary number that I picked that I think would be good. You think 3 or 4 years is good. I would be okay with what the people decide would be a sufficient amount of time. 10 is not something I am strongly committed too....it is something I just threw out there.
I'm not saying that these immigrants can't become citizens. Citizenship shouldn't be automatic.....you should still have to apply for and be granted it. On the otherhand, I am okay with resident alien status being automatic after a certain period of time in this country.
