Did you hear today on NPR that it will cost billions of dollars to send all the illegal immigrants back. Is that as wasteful and as fruitless as plugging a leaking boat with seaweed or what?
Can you imagine governors wanting to spend tons of money on taking people back (people who will turn around and return) when they could spend the same money on creating jobs?
As I talked about before, just think - to process thousands of Good Neighbor licenses - what do you need?
New employees at the Mexican, Canadian and American DMVs (to process the Good Neighbor worker licenses and the Good Neighbor employer licenses)
New technologies at the border crossing (eye scans, fingerprint scans, pictures)
New technologies so forging the licenses is very difficult
New software for an International data base
New hardware.software for Mexico DMVs, US DMVs, and Canadian DMVs to talk to each other
New international medical insurance infrastructure (the money from the licenses is split 20p% for the wages of the DMV worker, 40 percent for the town's medical insurance for the Good Neighbor, 20 % for the State's and 20% for the federal government)
Etc
Sunday, November 14, 2010
A new way of doing the business of immigration
Economic Benefits of the Good Neighbor Policy
In continuing to think about the political and economical advantages of this new way of managing our need for laborers, I'm hearing about more and more problems with the current way of managing illegal immigrants. The continual turnover of employees because the "legal" paperwork never catches up, the enormous costs of deporting these workers and securing the fence line from good workers.
Why are we spending all this money on trying to make hard working people criminals? Why not accept that our economy and culture need these workers? Why not spend money on creating a process which makes hard working people legal?
Why do we continue to prohibit a way of life that we Americans need. Obviously there are not enough Americans who are willing do some types of jobs (meat processing, fruit and vegetable picking, even house cleaning) at low wages. Our economy benefits from employing people in these jobs, our society benefits from having the jobs performed. I need to know what you think.
To summarize my thoughts:
What is the Good Neighbor Policy (GNP)?
The GNP policy is one which allows neighbors to work in each others country. It registers workers and employers with Good Neighbor Worker (GNW) and Good Neighbor Employer (GNE) licenses. This approach achieves three immediate and sustainable economic benefits.
1. Enables hard working, honest employers and employees to legally use each others' services;
2. Creates new and sustainable US citizen jobs;
3. Creates a process for medical, education and legal costs of the workers and employers to be paid by GNP system itself.
This common sense policy enables law abiding neighbors to work and live in each other countries. To do this, they need to obtain (pay for) a GNW license obtained at their local DMV. This could cost one thousand ($1,000.00 for the initial two year license, seven hundred and fifty ($750.00) for the first two year renewal and five hundred ($500.00) for the second and on THREE year renewals). It could cost the Good Neighbor Employers (GNE) a 20% surcharge due at the time of their normal driver's license renewals.
The collected GNW license fees could be distributed between the issuing DMV, its home town, state and federal government in this way:
20% to the issuing DMV for administrative costs;
40-60% to the issuing town for the GNP medical insurance fund;
10-20% each for the state and Federal governments for their GNP medical insurance
funds
The positive impacts to our economy begin with increase jobs at the local DMVs and continue with an increase in small businesses across America. There would be a need for:
1. Software businesses to create photo ids with embedded finger prints/ eye scans;
2. Hardware to create these licenses;
3. Computer hardware to ID the workers/employers traveling across border checkpoints;
4. Software for the international GNP data base - to store and secure personal information - information which would be used to provide substantiation of tax, legal and medical claims.
Would this work? Why, why not?
In continuing to think about the political and economical advantages of this new way of managing our need for laborers, I'm hearing about more and more problems with the current way of managing illegal immigrants. The continual turnover of employees because the "legal" paperwork never catches up, the enormous costs of deporting these workers and securing the fence line from good workers.
Why are we spending all this money on trying to make hard working people criminals? Why not accept that our economy and culture need these workers? Why not spend money on creating a process which makes hard working people legal?
Why do we continue to prohibit a way of life that we Americans need. Obviously there are not enough Americans who are willing do some types of jobs (meat processing, fruit and vegetable picking, even house cleaning) at low wages. Our economy benefits from employing people in these jobs, our society benefits from having the jobs performed. I need to know what you think.
To summarize my thoughts:
What is the Good Neighbor Policy (GNP)?
The GNP policy is one which allows neighbors to work in each others country. It registers workers and employers with Good Neighbor Worker (GNW) and Good Neighbor Employer (GNE) licenses. This approach achieves three immediate and sustainable economic benefits.
1. Enables hard working, honest employers and employees to legally use each others' services;
2. Creates new and sustainable US citizen jobs;
3. Creates a process for medical, education and legal costs of the workers and employers to be paid by GNP system itself.
This common sense policy enables law abiding neighbors to work and live in each other countries. To do this, they need to obtain (pay for) a GNW license obtained at their local DMV. This could cost one thousand ($1,000.00 for the initial two year license, seven hundred and fifty ($750.00) for the first two year renewal and five hundred ($500.00) for the second and on THREE year renewals). It could cost the Good Neighbor Employers (GNE) a 20% surcharge due at the time of their normal driver's license renewals.
The collected GNW license fees could be distributed between the issuing DMV, its home town, state and federal government in this way:
20% to the issuing DMV for administrative costs;
40-60% to the issuing town for the GNP medical insurance fund;
10-20% each for the state and Federal governments for their GNP medical insurance
funds
The positive impacts to our economy begin with increase jobs at the local DMVs and continue with an increase in small businesses across America. There would be a need for:
1. Software businesses to create photo ids with embedded finger prints/ eye scans;
2. Hardware to create these licenses;
3. Computer hardware to ID the workers/employers traveling across border checkpoints;
4. Software for the international GNP data base - to store and secure personal information - information which would be used to provide substantiation of tax, legal and medical claims.
Would this work? Why, why not?
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Does anyone know how much a Good Neighbor (Mexican or Canadian) pays to illegally cross the border?
The reason I ask is because I don't understand why we don't provide an alternative process. With very few infrastructure improvements US towns could provide a cheaper and safer process for farm workers, construction laborers and house keepers to work in the US and for US employers to employ.
The current procedure is to pay the local smuggler to illegally get you across the border. The smuggler either owns his own small business or is an employee of a larger business. I imagine the farmer pays say $3000.00 to the local Smuggling Business. The CEO of the local smuggling business uses the money to pay his infrastructure costs (boats, redesigned cars, guns, water bottles, etc), to employees who provide the escort service and banks the rest. It must be a solid business opportunity because even with the downturn in today's economy I continue to see day workers on corners waiting for their next job.
The future smart business decision for the USA would be to provide a cheaper, safer, legal procedure for our Good Neighbors who want to work in the US to work in the US. It is time we enabled illegal immigrants to stand in line at the nearby DMVs (in Mexico/Canada or USA) and pay for the right to work in the US, instead of paying for the illegal crossing.
Does anyone know how many towns in American have an illegal immigrant community?
If each of those communities' DMVs had to hire one employee to process the registration applications and hand out the licenses, how many Americans would have self sustaining jobs? These would not be jobs that go away when the funds dry up - the only way these jobs would dry up is if our good neighbors' country provided jobs at least as well paying as the jobs in America.
No matter what the cost, the funds would keep coming in - because just like everything else in our lives, it costs to renew it! How would this registration money be divided up? I like the 20 percent rule. 20% for administrative costs (i.e., the local DMV keeps), 40% to the Town/City, 20 % percent to the state and 20% to the federal government.
So does anyone know how much the worker pays to follow the illegal process? Does anyone know how many communiities in America have a significant illegal immigrant community?
The reason I ask is because I don't understand why we don't provide an alternative process. With very few infrastructure improvements US towns could provide a cheaper and safer process for farm workers, construction laborers and house keepers to work in the US and for US employers to employ.
The current procedure is to pay the local smuggler to illegally get you across the border. The smuggler either owns his own small business or is an employee of a larger business. I imagine the farmer pays say $3000.00 to the local Smuggling Business. The CEO of the local smuggling business uses the money to pay his infrastructure costs (boats, redesigned cars, guns, water bottles, etc), to employees who provide the escort service and banks the rest. It must be a solid business opportunity because even with the downturn in today's economy I continue to see day workers on corners waiting for their next job.
The future smart business decision for the USA would be to provide a cheaper, safer, legal procedure for our Good Neighbors who want to work in the US to work in the US. It is time we enabled illegal immigrants to stand in line at the nearby DMVs (in Mexico/Canada or USA) and pay for the right to work in the US, instead of paying for the illegal crossing.
Does anyone know how many towns in American have an illegal immigrant community?
If each of those communities' DMVs had to hire one employee to process the registration applications and hand out the licenses, how many Americans would have self sustaining jobs? These would not be jobs that go away when the funds dry up - the only way these jobs would dry up is if our good neighbors' country provided jobs at least as well paying as the jobs in America.
No matter what the cost, the funds would keep coming in - because just like everything else in our lives, it costs to renew it! How would this registration money be divided up? I like the 20 percent rule. 20% for administrative costs (i.e., the local DMV keeps), 40% to the Town/City, 20 % percent to the state and 20% to the federal government.
So does anyone know how much the worker pays to follow the illegal process? Does anyone know how many communiities in America have a significant illegal immigrant community?
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