Joel Gill for
Congress
3rd District MS
Without contributing to the tax system these invaders waste our scarce resources needed to provide good public schools and accessible health care by their very presence.
Amnesty is not the answer, nor are wide scale sweeps that result in the deportation of at most a few thousand illegals who will seek to invade us once again at their earliest opportunity.
The economic incentive must be removed from the equation by placing sizable penalties on employers who hire undocumented workers without verifing their status.
Many unscrupulous employers will try to force these undocumented workers into crowded, almost slave like living conditions and keep a portion of their pay to fund these sub-human conditions, knowing that if the worker objects, the employer can simply call Customs and Immigration to solve his problem. This is also true of legal guest workers due to the lack of portability with the H 1 B visa which requires the worker to remain in the hire of the original sponsor no matter what. This is wrong and must be addressed and corrected.
Typical home in Honduras
While in Central America as a member of R-CALF USA's CAFTA fact finding team, I saw first hand the poverty that drives these people to risk life and limb crossing deserts or oceans to get here.
The US jobs that were exported to those countries have resulted in massive distortions of social values in those nations. The women of the region are usually employed rather than the men.
The farming jobs that most of those men enjoyed are being lost as small farms are taken over by international agribusiness and farmed by very few workers. Its no wonder that these displaced workers try to gain greater economic opportunity.
Our Free Trade Policies, such as NAFTA, CAFTA, and now PERU, have had the unintended consequence of increasing illegal immigration through the economic distortions created by "Fast Track" FTA's that removes the Congress's power and ability to improve those agreements to better protect our borders as well as the economic interests of the working women and men of the third district.
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It will take a complete reformation of our entry policies to ensure an enhanced work force and fair treatment of those new workers."
