Comments about ‘Rep. Jason Chaffetz seeks tough approach on illegal immigration’

Why doesn't Chaffetz just insist that law enforcement follow the 1986 Immigration Reform Act that Reagan signed into law? Wouldn't that solve the problem? We don't need more laws, just enforce the ones we already have.

The 1986 act was replaced by the 1996 act. We need less reform, and more enforcement. Every time we get lip service over getting tough, we get a "new reform act" but no stepped up enforcement.

Don't give me reform, give me enforcement, then reform.

Rep Chaffetz is on the right track! Amnesty was granted to 3 million illegal aliens in 1986. Today we have 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in the US. Amnesty does not solve the illegal immigration problem.
E-Verify is free to implement, is accurate 99.5% of the time and only takes two hours of training time. Implementing E-Verify ensures jobs go to those legally eligible to work in the US.
Next, Rep Chaffetz should implement the SAVE system to ensure illegal aliens do not have access to public benefits. The taxpayers should not have to pay for benefits for illegal aliens.
Great job Rep Chaffetz! Keep up the good work!

Although all this talk looks and sounds good. It really has not functional purpose other then to make people feel good like something is being done.
What we need are real solutions not a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
We are not going to kick 10 million people out of the country with their children(who are legal citizens)
We are not going to put them in the camps in the desert.
kicking them out does nothing if we can not prevent them from coming in.
We are not going to shoot people trying to enter the country.
We need to work with mexico to come up with some real solutions and hold Mexico accountable for their own citizens.
Mexico should be paying us in oil for the medical, educational cost of their citizens.
They should pay the cost to incarcirate their citizens in our country.

Kudos to Rep, Chaffetz - now if we could get his home state of UTAH to assist by,at least, enforcing Utah law SB 81, and ensuring that Utah governmental entities are using everify. See UFIRE for more information.

The children of people illegally here will hold dual citizenship, in the US and their parents country. Of course they will take their children with them. Once they reach legal age they can return if they wish.

Having a generation of law abiding children that realize that all laws should be enforced, verses a generation taught that breaking the law pays, to me is preferable. Amnesty breeds more people coming here against the law. We are dealing now with people who came here after the 1986 amnesty, hoping for the next one.

E-Verify will succeed in deporting most, since jobs will only be available to citizens, and people here on legal work visas. We take back our country.

Glad to see our Congressman getting tough on illegal immigration!

Especially in this tough economic climate, we need to clamp down on illegal immigration to free up jobs that will help lower our unemployment rate, and we need to conserve our tax dollars that are being spent on services to those who are here illegally. We can not afford the rampant illegal immigration that pro-amnesty congressmen force us to contend with. Every time they start talking amnesty, more illegals show up hoping to get in on the freebie.

"We are not going to kick 10 million people out of the country with their children(who are legal citizens)
We are not going to put them in the camps in the desert.
kicking them out does nothing if we can not prevent them from coming in.
We are not going to shoot people trying to enter the country"

My question is why not? The Mexican govt. arms its borders to prevent illegal immigration from the South.

Because we are the United States of America, and we are better then Mexico.

What if their children do not want to go to mexico? We can not kick legal residents out of the country.
To take away their citizenship would require changing out constitution. Would we make it retroactive? How many generations retroactive would you go?
The kids would become wards of the state, and put into foster homes. Then we all really would have to pay to take care of them. At least now they for the most part have parents that are working to take care of them.
I do not think you realize how much it would cost.

How many people are working in our country under the table?
illegal or legal residents.
Will e-file really fix anything?

This is the very reason Jason won over Ted Cannon. We are tired of the status quo and politician's who cater to corporation's and special interest groups. Politician's who sell out the middle class concerning our immigration laws, our taxes that pay to keep illegal's here while they take our jobs and make us an unsafe state.
Thank you Jason for standing up for what is fair and right. A sanctuary city is not something I signed up for or have ever wanted.

Dana Anderson

Same old pandering from chafftz. Pick on the defenseless and leave businesses alone.

Why not aim some of that hate against employers that pay under the table? Undocumented or documented, it doesn't matter...

Naturally children are the responsibility of their parents. They hold dual citizenship, and would be able to live in either country when adults. No need to remove anyone's citizenship. It's just like the children of American servicemen born overseas. They hold dual citizenship, and are automatically citizens when they return.

The Federal government currently requires E-Verify for Federal contractors. It matches social security numbers with names.

We can't keep making excuses not to enforce our laws. We have the ability, what we lack is leadership and enforcement.

So the parents decide that they would rather give their kids up, them have them go back to Mexico.
We suddenly have millions of children that we have to pay to take care of. You have to pay to take care of.
We can not force the parents to take the kids to mexico.

You have gone to the absurd.

We need to remove and not create any rewards and incentives for immigrants to come here and be here illegally.

Immigrants that are here illegally should not have the ability to become United States Citizens prior to those outside the U.S. applying to come legally.


Citizenship, if desired and qualified for, must be applied for with the application from their country of origin, (unless qualifying for asylum) and behind those that have been waiting legally there.

Call the local DCFS office, and ask them how many kids are in states custody, after their parents were returned to mexico.
The parents would rather the kids grow up here in foster care, then be returned to Mexico, where they have not chance,and no future.
Plus, lets be honest, the parents have every intention of returning back to the United States, and it is alot easier to do so, when you are dragging kids along.

Undocumented illegal immigrants who have children
born within the US become citizens of the US.
Immigrant Parents of US born children, will not
(under most cases) have their children become wards
of the state. The parents would (if forced to leave)
take their children (under most circumstances) to
live on the Mexican border and have their children
take the (US provided) bus to school in the US.

Huraaay!!! God Bless you!