Fixing US Immigration Laws

The purpose of immigration laws is to manage labor shortages. As an employer, I initiated visa applications to the US Immigration Service to get permission to hire non-citizens when they were the best qualified for my job openings. I had to prove my case.

At Schwan Foods in the 1970s, I applied for an H2b visa for a Technician from Mexico to maintain stone grinding wheels to make tortillas. The US had no qualified, experienced people who knew how to do this job. 

We need to restore traditional US immigration policies to address and reestablish its purpose. Even when our need for immigrants was essential from 1800 to 1920, the US required immigrants to be healthy, capable of self-support and sponsored by a US corporation or US family. These immigrants lived with relatives until they were able to establish their own households. Everybody worked. We had no welfare, no child labor laws and tax money was restricted to “enumerated powers” and legitimate government expenses. The US formed with moral values including mutual help. Farmers helped each other build barns and homes, find livestock and repel attacks. Churches served as community gathering places for neighbors to meet. The entire fabric of our society was based on individual choice. People who caused problems were identified and dealt with individually. Those who broke laws were jailed or executed. Misbehaving children were punished.  Disruptive relatives were isolated or banished. Misfits would leave home.

The introduction of “social policies” introduced to help families and individuals deal with deviate or destructive behaviors have largely failed and have had their unintended consequences.

US Immigration Laws need to focus on limiting immigration with No migrants, No Asylees, No Refugees, No Anchor babies, No Lottery, No Chain Migration. E-Verify should be required for employers to determine citizenship of applicants.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader