March 7th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Illegal immigration is too big a drain for even the UK to handle. Reuters reports that Home Secretary John Reid, a member of the liberal Labor Party, is seeking to deny illegals access to work, benefits, and services.
Measures include a watch list of illegal immigrants to alert government agencies if someone applies for services to which they are not entitled and workplace enforcement teams to track down bosses employing people who should not be in the country.Landlords could be fined up to 20,000 pounds for housing illegal immigrants in overcrowded flats.
Pilot schemes will be set up in three NHS Trusts to use government data to ensure migrants pay for care where required.
Conservatives are criticizing Reid for not working to deport illegals, but I think you have to work both sides of supply and demand. The UK (and the US for that matter) wouldn’t have to fight illegal immigration so hard if we weren’t so hell-bent on government providing free services and force-pricing legal labor out of the market.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:32 am
It is a matter of denying “illegal” immigrants things that they are not legally entitled to have in the first place.
Here we are trying to repeal a law allowing illegal immigrants, among other things, lower in-state college tuition if they graduated from a state high-school.
People are up in arms that we are “denying their rights”. But what legal right does an illegal immigrant to my tax-payer funded schools? If you are trying to become legal, and paying your fair share of taxes, you are not the problem.
The problem is illegals who come here with every intent to take advantage of living in the U.S. without the responsibilities of citizenship.