Joey Hornbuckle's Immigration Reform

Last week, CNN and MSN reported that the Obama Administration wants to do Immigration Reform by the end of the year.

The idea of Obama taking this on is rather amusing. Healthcare Reform AND Immigration Reform in the same year?? What two subjects are more controversial? If Immigration Reform is next (presumably after Bank Reform), then Obama has got balls of steel.

I could not find out exactly what he wants to do, or even what his ideas might be.

That's why, while waiting, I wrote up an Immigration Reform of my own. Keep in mind that immigration is not a bad thing. The United States does not have a self-sustaining population. Future growth will come from immigrants, and the U.S. will need population growth and a thriving economy in order to compete with China and India for setting the world's agenda in the future.

Keeping all of that in mind, here is Joey Hornbuckle's Immigration Reform:


1. Create effective gateways for immigrant college students to become American citizens

2. Double number of foreign college students in the United States (from 1 million to 2 million)

3. Double number of visa workers in America (from 700,000 to 1,400,000) and create more effective process for them to become naturalized

4. Create system for 500,000 Mexicans to become American citizens (over 1,000,000 Mexicans illegally immigrated in 2007)(the choosing process should be based off academic success)

5. Mandate that all immigrants go to free ESL classes for at least three months and pass a standard English test (this will create jobs for ESL teachers)

6. Require that immigrants are sponsored by a University, corporation, church, any kind of religious institution, or a non-profit organization or friend or family member. (A sponsor helps the immigrant become adjusted to a new country)

7. Build a secure wall between America and Mexico (make it a stimulus project--it will create jobs in the construction industry)

8. Grant amnesty to the illegal immigrants in the nation (this will grow our GDP by $2 trillion)

Comments? Questions? Criticism?