On the upcoming SOTU

Dear President Trump,

You are on the verge of being the most consequential President since Ronald Reagan. We are all looking forward to an epic Presidential State of the Union address where you go over the many accomplishments of yours and your administration. With Tax Reform done, Immigration Reform is the next legacy making issue followed by Infrastructure and Modernizing the Military. Let us not forget a better Affordable Healthcare System. Obama delivered a flawed Obamacare. You can deliver a truly affordable healthcare system.

On Immigration:

Please explain the “four pillars” of immigration, Recruit Tom Cotton to draft that portion. Please explain the pitfalls of Chain Migration, and the impact on Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid if the 11 million illegal immigrants are granted a path to citizenship. The diversity lottery is also no longer relevant. The time for “the tired and the poor” is long gone. The US needs highly qualified people and temporary workers for farms and predominantly labour oriented jobs. Automation is rapidly eliminating many jobs and granting permanent status to temporary workers will result in future problems.

Regarding DACA, Obama did not promise citizenship to the Dreamers. One alternative is give them Permanent Guest Worker Permits and for them to be eligible for the H1B program, and be sponsored for a Green Card. This is a well established process that will weed out the qualified Dreamers from the others. The others would have an opportunity to upgrade their skills and take advantage of the H1B process or live their lives out as Permanent Guest Workers.

Regarding the 11 million or so illegal immigrants that include the parents of the Dreamers, allow them to get a job offer that gets validated to a Renewable Work Permit, after they go back to their country of origin and return with proper documents.

This would be a fair deal for the Dreamers, the presently illegal immigrants and fair to the rest of the US who constitute the majority.

On Immigration

Dear President,

Why cant Republicans come together on basic immigration issues namely:

1. No chain migration except for spouses and under eighteen children of spouses if any.
2. Merit based immigration and an end to diversity lottery
3. Adequate funding for border security including for a wall wherever applicable
4. Some DACA solution that Republicans can agree on.

Regardless of what the DACA solution is it should not apply to parents of DACA kids who are eighteen or over or when they turn eighteen. The parents broke the law and should be treated as an other illegal immigrants when they have no under eighteen kids.

The demonstrating DACA supporters are doing themselves a disfavor and will receive the ire of the people. The DACA kids have to realize they need to be humble and not be demanding.

Regards,

So Long DACA

Dear President Trump,

If it is decided that the DACA kids can stay on a temporary or possible permanent basis, their parents have to produce proper papers or self deport and return with proper papers. Perhaps they can be brought under a work permit program, with no path to citizenship. DACA parents broke the law and should be held accountable.

DACA was being challenged by the many State Attorney Generals and rescinding it was the right thing to do. If the court struck down DACA it would have become an even bigger issue.

The Dreamers ought to be put through a rigorous qualification process. Let them finish their studies and then they ought to go to the country where they were brought from. That country will benefit from their expertise. If they join the armed forces, great. They need to serve for at least ten years. If they are highly qualified and a US Citizen or legal resident is not available, make an exception.

According to the liberal, moral, elite any child brought to the US illegally who is law abiding, should be given a path to citizenship? This statement that these "children" know no other country is true but an emotional issue. They need to produce papers of their parents citizenship to stay.

Asking Congress to address is the right thing to do. You have been consistent. Even when you said you love them, that doesn't mean that you will unilaterally extend an unconstitutional Presidential Order.

We don't know where some of these illegal immigrants came from. Before they are given permission to either stay with a work permit or otherwise, they need to produce proper papers that prove their origin.

NO AMNESTY for illegal immigrants. They broke the law and have to deal with the circumstances.

Need a sense of Urgency

Dear President,

You enunciated a set objectives that were Spot On. Now it is time to get Congress to go through the process of making SAUSAGE and bring it to fruition. Please instill a sense of URGENCY to get CONGRESS to deliver. AMERICA can't wait to be GREAT AGAIN. How about launching parallel TASK FORCES to proceed on Tax, Immigration as well. Make this a competitive race to finish.

Cruz had a post card size Tax Return proposal. That maybe impractical. How about simplifying personal tax returns. Keep the House Mortgage Deduction, funding retirement and healthcare. Allow Charitable and Tax Free bonds such as Infrastructure and other Private Public Partnerships (PPP). Corporate Tax Return is a separate issue. Capital gains only on gains realized by selling personal house, investing in IPOs, companies issuing additional stock for new capital, low income real estate constructions, PPP etc.

Rubio was involved in Immigration Reform. The stake in the ground is NO path to CITIZENSHIP for law breakers. However give them the opportunity to obtain a work permit. We need to know where they came from. So in order to validate the work permit they have to go back to where they came from and come back with proper papers for their spouse and kids. No social security, Medicare, Medicaid for these workers. Compulsory enrollment in healthcare. Deportation for people without work permits and fines for employers who employ undocumented temporary workers.

Why is this all so hard?

Regards,