Response to immigration

     My mother and her entire family are naturalized citizens. My uncle was naturalized just a few years ago and had to go through the seven year process. He served four combat tours in Vietnam and at the time could have received his citizenship on the spot. He immigrated as a child when he was two years of age and had papers his entire life. When he was planning his retirement from Chrysler he realized that he had no family left in his country of origin and that he would have to sell his home and vehicles and return once he retired. He chose to go through the long process to become a citizen.
     Do I have empathy for the young lady in this article? Absolutely, but the problem we have her is asking to give favoritism so a select few. This on its base is amoral, we have no kings, dukes, we should not give special privilege to certain people while denying others the same. Equal Protection under the Law is the logical way to look at this problem. There are a quantified number of grants and scholarships available, and to give to those who are not citizens while letting the natural born and Naturalized to wallow is amoral. The solution is quite clear, change the entire system. Allow anyone who comes to the border to enter the country with no limitation to education, skill or origin. Once in if they can find work they are able to work legally, pay taxes, and better our nation. If you study history our greatest periods of expansion and growth were during periods of unbridled immigration, especially the periods before the federal government took over the task of managing immigration. There were many at the time that said that we could not handle the waves of the downtrodden, but as we view it though the lens of history we see the greatness that immigrants contribute to our nation. Here are just a few; Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie who immigrated at 7yo illiterate, J.P.Morgan, Necoli Tesla, and the list goes on.
     With an Open Border policy those who are here illegally need only to go to foreign soil, a foreign Consulate would do, then fill out an application, have their biometrics recorded and enter. Once they were here legally there are no more problems. If they choose to become Citizens then they can go through the seven year process, and if not they can retain their citizenship in their home land. Let us say that the authors parents were forced to become citizens of the US. If this had occurred they could not have returned home to purchase land in Mexico which was their dream. Had they been able to work here legally they would have had a better opportunity of making the money needed to pursue their dream, and once completed they would have returned to Mexico and bought the home they wanted.
     There are few downsides to this blueprint that has been laid out. Criminals can more easily be deported as ICE will not be so overburdened. The slavery that is occurring would end as would the illicit profits made in trafficking people. If there was little work people would migrate home or to another area with opportunity.
     Chomsky writes of the same issues with a particular slant toward the political refugees, and has a complex solution that will still leave many out in the cold and exposed to legal action. This proposal however is simple, easy and inexpensive to implement while being morally correct. Let us give no privilege to some that we are not willing to give to others, and let us not force on some what they may not want. The "Dream Act" is a violation of one of our most basic tenants and the center of our National Morality, "Equal Protection Under the Law"
     We need to focus our energy on what is right, not on what is perceived to be easy as it always leads to evil.