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Hispanic View on Illegal Immigration

In an exclusive interview with the Vernuccio/Allison Report, Clara E. Del Villar, the CEO & Editor-in-Chief of the Hispanic Post, revealed her concerns about the current crisis of illegal aliens flooding America’s southern border.

Ms. Villar notes that Mexico’s exceptionally powerful drug cartels are using the exodus as a screen to infiltrate their power to the United States.  She has recommended the following common sense approach:

  1. Secure the border. Our border security system is irresponsibly broken. Building up and maintaining strong, effective resources to address security, monitoring, and manpower requirements should not be a work in progress. Why the delay in addressing this obvious and primary need? The children now clamoring at our borders should sound serious alarm bells about the consequences and dangers of inaction…

    2. Modernize the visa system. There are systems management technologies available to bring efficiency, scalability, and sensory tracking ability to major industries …

  2. 3. Help U.S. companies.  They need E Verify, a potentially complex online system, to verify their workers’ legality.

    4. Strengthen diplomatic efforts. Maintain real relationships with Central American and Mexican officials on these immigration issues and more. U.S.-Latin American relations have long been a secondary foreign policy consideration to our detriment.

    5. Enact new laws. Serious immigration resolution requires provisional legal status, or guest-worker registration, with probation after all the background checks, fines, and taxes. Yes, there are doubts that undocumented immigrants will come forward to register. But it is safe to say that more will come forward to register than appear out of the shadows for mass deportation. Any process that includes identification beats the unknowable status quo we remain mired in at this time.

    6. Fix the visa process. The H1B visa restrictions on foreign graduate students are unwieldy at best. Some rules are archaic, such as a 7 percent limit on permanent permits to any nationality. The notion of limiting H1B visas to 65,000 (a number selected during or just after 9/11) is incomprehensible in a free market society. Such a policy is arbitrary, inefficient, and creates no economic benefit.