I need some assistance. I’ve read a bunch of news stories on a particular topic and either the reporters left out important details, or I’m simply missing something. According to the stories, thousands of people in several cities are protesting a bill that:
…Calls for tough border security and enforcement measures and would make it a federal crime, instead of a civil offense, for undocumented workers to live in the country.
If I’m to understand this correctly, they’re protesting a bill that would make it illegal to be here illegally. Is that right? Am I close? If I am, I’m unclear about what they’re protesting. I’m certainly no expert on how or why some people get to reside here legally, but I did take the time to review the US Citizenship and Immigration Services website. While the steps required for legalization are by no means easy, they seem reasonably attainable for anybody who really wants to work and live here.
There’s a protest planned for today in downtown LA that I’m tempted to attend but they expect about a hundred thousand protestors. Not only do I hate big crowds, I strongly suspect it’s all a trap from INS and an enormous net’s going to fall from the skyscrapers gathering everybody up. Plus, with everybody protesting, I don’t know who would park my car (COME ON! You were all thinking it).
The fact is, there aren’t a lot of illegal aliens who pay income tax and they shouldn’t benefit from the services afforded by those who do. Perhaps the US needs to improve or speed up the legalization process but that’s a different issue. I certainly don’t think we should relax any standards requiring legal immigrants to be productive members of society. I know the Statue of Liberty says, “Give us your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore…” but it’s about time for the US to stand up and say, “Hey, the French wrote that as some kinda joke. We didn’t expect you all to take it so literally.”
Uncooperative Blogger wrote:
I have a simple plan for ending this nightmare:
• Secure the border by any means necessary.
• Stiff penalties for employers, which are actually enforced
• No taxpayer funded programs for illegals or their families. (including school for children of illegals and medical care for any illegal)
• No “Anchor Babies†(no automatic citizenship for children of illegals born in the US)
• No path to Amnesty in any name or form for those here illegally
• No Guest worker program until the above measures are put in place and the need can be PROVEN
It will work and it will save us money. Not only will they stop wanting to come here, they will migrate back home.
josh wrote:
They should catch all the illegals they can get and send them to that paradise called cuba
sleepyrn wrote:
I can’t tell you how many illegal immigrants I have cared for in the hospital (on our dime) it makes me CRAZY!!! (crazIER!!!!)
Another way to reduce the number of illegal immigants is to dry up the job market – require americans who are also on our dime to fill the jobs that the illegals are preforming.
(your title alone made this one of your best!!!!!)
David wrote:
:mrgreen: You know, despite the fact I knew that the French made us the statue, I totally didnt piece together that they were the ones who put Lady Liberty’s quote on the statue. Hmmmm.
David. wrote:
” I strongly suspect it’s all a trap from INS and an enormous net’s going to fall from the skyscrapers gathering everybody up.”
Wishful thinking. *sigh* Would that it were so.
Manic wrote:
skedaddle wrote:
Some hispanics seem to see this as a racist issue. It’s not. It’s only because a large percentage of illegals are hispanics that they are the ones who are most impacted. If we had an enforced immigration policy that worked, then there wouldn’t be as many illegals and those who are here legally would be less likely to be asked to prove that they are here legally. The fact that most illegals are hispanics, in my humble opinion, has a tremendous adverse impact on other hispanics. I think that it is a tragedy that any American citizen has to be asked to prove it, simply because of his or her appearance.
1girl4martinis wrote:
What Brian Bonner said. (For an insightful take on Mexican immigration, check out Victor Davis Hanson’s “Mexifornia.” He just happens to be from my home town, thank you very much.)
David. wrote:
What Brian Bonner said with a couple of addenda:
1.) A bounty program rewarding CITIZENS who turn in illegals (any employer etc. of illegals ineligible)
2.) Well-regulated “gates”–processes–to allow folks to enter legally. Wanna work here? Harder to get in. Want to become a citizen? LEARN ENGLISH and study for citizenship–no shortcuts. The entry program we now have for legal entry is so full of holes and bureaucratic red tape it’s ridiculous… and insecure.
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