SB48

SB48 **Title:** Keep America Legal Citizens Ericka Richards, South Dakota, Moderate Cal DiJulius, Pennsylvania, Moderate Liberal The purpose of this bill is to decrease the amount of illegal citizens in the US. We plan to do this by making stricter border control and making our country more aware of all immigrants entering. We also plan to change the process of becoming a citizen. We would like to be more welcoming to immigrants and understanding of their situation. Our goal is to make this process cheaper and quicker. We would like to put our new "application process" into play, also. This bill could affect our country's economy and make it a safer place to live in. Our purpose is not to become biase to just Mexican and Canadian border, we will be having the same protocall for all immigrants worldwide. This issue is important because if affects every citizen of the US and could change our lives drastically, in a positive way, when passed. The first part of our bill is stricter border control. To do this we will make our guards fully aware of all immigrants crossing our borders. Two months in advance, any alien planning to enter the United States and become a citizen must fill out an application. On the application they must give details of their arrival and how long they will be staying. They will also have to give their purpose of entering and where they will be located. When an application is approved they are added to a list so we can account for every immigrant in our country and be expecting of everyone crossing the border. They will be recorded on our data base so we can search for them if necessary and they don't have to carry their applications everywhere. Any person caught crossing illegally into the United States will not be shot at, unless apposing a threat to our security and society. Our bill also includes changing the process of citizenship. We would like to make this process cheaper because these immigrants are coming here for a better life and often cannot afford the high price of at least $15,000, so they are forced to sneak in illegally. We would like to decrease this outrageous price to $7,000. Our country’s main belief is that freedom and rights are god given and everyone should have them. If this is stated in our constitution, it should not have to be bought, but earned. We should be more welcoming to immigrants and understand the situation they are in. We have to charge some money to help our economy, but it should not have to be something so expensive. Since we are decreasing illegal immigrants, and increasing legal citizens it will help our economy in the long run. If immigrants can still not afford the $7,000, they can work off the funds. Many parents have multiple children that increase the cost, so they have the option to work and pay off their citizenship through labor. We would also like to make this process quicker. There is no point spending five years doing something you can accomplish in one. We will give them a harder test so they will appreciate and understand the values of American citizenship. This test will entail the history of our country, the constitution and laws, and the rights and freedoms they will receive as a citizen of the United States. One more thing we must do is crack down and find illegal immigrants. These aliens are taking our freedoms and rights while not earning them the correct way. They are also hurting our economy. We need to encourage our new process of citizenship in order to persuade immigrants to enter legally. It is much easier to become a legal citizen, than be running away and hiding for the rest of your life. This is something we need all immigrants to become aware of. We will have officers in designated areas that focus on finding illegal immigrants. They will make sure immigrants are legal by searching for their citizenship in our data base. If an illegal citizen is found they will be put in captivity for a duration decided by a judge, then deported back to their home country. After a citizen is deported, they can later apply for citizenship. This bill serves all US citizens and immigrants. It ensures the safety of our citizens and the state of our country’s economy. This bill will be nonterminal, unless another bill is passed changing the stance of SB48. This bill will be enforced by police officers throughout our country, and guards at the borders. It will also be enforced by people keeping record of all immigrants. If passed, this bill will go into effect January 1st of 2013, after all planning and preparations are made. Our bill will cost a maximum total of $3,500,000,000 for the first year, but the expense will decrease drastically after most items are purchased. This cost may also be less because we already own some of these resources. We will spend $300,000,000 on equipment, such as computers, offices and weapons. We will spend $500,000,000 on labor. This includes teachers to educate new immigrants, guards on borders, officers throughout the country and office workers to manage applications and other necessities. We will spend $75,000,000 on energy resources, such as electricity, gas and water. We will spend $10,000,000 on education. This includes training our employees of what they will be required to do. We will spend $5,000,000 on marketing. This is commercials and posters to promote our bill. We will advertise so people will vote for our bill and it will pass. We are using our marketing to change the public opinion and increase the citizen’s knowledge on our bill. We will spend $400,000,000 on transportation, which includes police cars. We will spend $70,000,000 on legal aspects, such as judges for immigrants sent to court. We plan to pay off this expense through taxes paid by all citizens. We will require a 5% income tax from all citizens. We will also accept donations and help from volunteers who are in favor of promoting our bill. One more way we can acquire the money to pay for this bill is by the money we recieve from new immigrants that are becoming citizens. Although $3,500,000,000 sounds like a lot of money it is not that bad when you think about it, because in the past years our country has spent up to $40,000,000,000 on immigration. After the expense is paid off it will begin to help our economy and be a benefit to our country. This bill also creates new jobs to help the unemployed. If passed, this bill would be an all around success.
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