Issue Position: Immigration

Issue Position

Our immigration laws should be designed to protect Americans, not to accommodate foreigners. All immigration laws should be enforced, and people who want to come to America permanently should follow the procedures.

We can't punish legal immigrants with high costs and lengthy waiting times while rewarding illegal immigrants with "shortcuts". We should protect our borders, enforce immigration laws, and -- most importantly -- eliminate incentives for illegal immigration to our country.

We must verify the legal status of everybody on entitlement programs and implement voter ID laws to ensure fair elections. I am opposed to amnesty because it rewards people that disregarded our immigration laws and places the people that are waiting for their chance to enter the USA at an unfair disadvantage.

The American government's responsibility is to protect its taxpayers' money and job opportunities. We should welcome people who come legally to become Americans as our ancestors did. All people who legally become American residents and citizens should be encouraged to learn our language and taxpayers should not pay for language accommodations for those unwilling to invest the time and effort to learn the language of their new country. Children and adults should be provided with opportunities to learn English. The necessity to learn English was the reason why the 20th century waves of immigrants became assimilated into the culture of the USA and built the backbone of our country today.

We can celebrate our country's diversity without sacrificing traditional American culture. American culture made us the world's richest, freest, and most powerful nation, and that is the reason why so many people want to come to America.

Immigration is important for increasing our diversity of citizens and expanding the population of honest, creative and hard-working people that seek opportunities in this great country as our ancestors did. Opportunity to work hard to get ahead should be the main driver for immigration, not the taxpayer-sponsored benefits.

People come to the USA because they want to participate in the opportunities which abound in our country - not to convert our country into the one they left behind.

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