So I am curious. If you are against multiculturism, then what exactly is the alternative? Limiting immigration to a homogenous group? Limiting immigration to non-Muslims? Preventing immigration altogether? It's all well and good to say nay, but what does that actually mean.
None of those identifiers have anything directly to do with individuals immigrating to America or any other western nation for that matter. A good start would be mandating all government services conduct all matters in english only. Attach all federal funding to schools with a stipulation that all core classroom instruction be conducted in English. That would be a good start. And yes, immigration should be limited as it already is. But it should be given a step further, to limit people with no skill or education from entering the country unless specifically for student visas and tourism. We have a national instant background check system for gun purchases. Would it be much more difficult to copy over SSNs from the SS dept to create a list of eligible employees? Stiff penalties for employers and employees who break the law in this regard. Providing your SSN and date of birth are all required when accepting employment, and a W2 is submitted each year. It wouldn't be a perfect fix, but it would be rather cheap to implement and safe guard could be implemented that any possible false reports incur a 60 day grace period where the employee can work with his employer until his SSN card and other required documents are sent to be added to the system to be evaluated.
Compared to the billions lost each year in education, social services and medial service to people not legally deserving, it seems like a good start to me. Securing the boarder and securing the public welfare are both outlined requirements of the federal government.
Since the beginning of our nation we've always had an immigrant population in this country and they have always been treated poorly by the rest of us. But I've never seen so much resentment as I see now. If we want them to learn our laws I see no harm in having them printed in other languages. (It takes a long time to learn a new one and it's just an aid to help in the meantime.) Even back in the 60s when I went to college, they had lots of night classes to learn how to speak English. I don't mind my tax dollars paying for that. I wish they'd been available when my grandparents immigrated here. But core subjects being taught in other languages so a kid could virtually go through school without learning English? It that really happening in the U.S.A.?
Employers are already required to check SSN numbers but the problem is that our country's SSN numbers are storied in 3 different data banks and they are so old school (not all computerized) that instant checks aren't available. It can take as long as 3 weeks and by then a lot of the illegals using a fake or stolen SSN are long gone from the temporary work they were hired for---not to mention that too many employers of immigrants really don't care as long as they get cheap labor. Some people say just let them wait 3 weeks for the SSN to be checked but with temporary farm and food processing work, for example, that can't wait weeks when crops need picking and processing. The answer to this problem is the National ID card so we can get all SSN numbers online for instant check of fake, stolen or lost cards, etc. (Think of the data processing jobs that would create for a few years.) But whenever the National ID card is brought up the people who complain about illegals the most seem to fight having the National ID cards. Illegals come to this country for jobs. We need to make it harder to use fake and stolen SSN and easier to get temporary worker visas for the types of jobs they are seeking. The jobs we citizens won't do (farm and food processing) and those jobs where we don't have enough qualified people to fill the jobs (nursing and some fields of engineering at the moment, but this change with the decades). We can also change the laws to make temporary migrant workers here on work visas be covered by the same workplace safety and protection laws that cover legal citizens. What that will do is drive up the amount of money the employers would have to pay the migrant workers and therefore make those jobs more desirable to U.S. citizens. But this is being fought tooth and nail by the big factory farms. The answer to controlling illegal immigration isn't about building walls at our borders. It's about controlling access to jobs, jobs, jobs.
Our country is great because of our history of immigrants coming here to work hard to better themselves. Without those hungry people on the lower steps on the ladder the rest of us would just stagnant where we're at. They help push us all upward and bring a richness to our society by expanding our choices of cultural customs, music and foods.
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Think a lot of Brits live in Manhattan if they come here, not so much in Brooklyn. Heard there are Brit communities/enclaves in Southern Cal, but only spent two days there in 1989 so not much to go on.
