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?