Have you read the NAE statement? Where does it say open the gates at let the hordes flood in? It simply says that for those people that are already here and not going anywhere that there should be some path to legalization for them. It also says there should border security and the government should do more to ensure that immigration policy is followed. What other sensible approach is there?
The NAE statement is a
de facto green light for open borders. Of course theyāll never officially state that we should allow illegals in unrestrained (it is, after all, still in the federal statutes), but that is the effect of the position theyāve taken. And itās unacceptable.
And Iām sorry. Itās not as simple as you make it out to be. If I was a father or mother in Mexico, Iād want to get my children to America too. Whether I had to break the law or not. I think people in America and other developed countries can take for granted just how good we have it.
So the rest of us who decide to try our luck with the legal immigration authorities are apparently a bunch of schmucks because we tried to do it legally? I guess next time Iāll tell my dad to try his luck illegally, as a criminal. Clearly itās more worth it than giong through the process.
You can make a valid point that America cannot afford to sustain massive amounts of foreign immigration. That is the truth. But at the same time, you cannot blame people who are willing to break our laws to give themselves and their children the chance to live even a minimal portion of the American dream. Yes, legally they have broken our laws and as a matter of fact they should receive punishment according to our laws. But that being said I cannot deny that if I was in their situation, I probably would do the exact same thing.
Well the legal punishment for their crime is deportation. But you say you donāt want them deported. We canāt assume both points at the same time.
Yes, it is very sad for families to suffer the world over. Very much so. But allowing them to break our laws and stream in illegally is dangerous. Dangerous because we donāt have any idea of who comes in. Often times they are criminals. They could be terrorists. They could have disease - and indeed, because of illegal immigration weāve seen a resurgence of diseases that have been long defeated in the West. Weāre inviting in a mass underclass of people, who breed several children at a time, who also end up being poor and destitute. And of course, who pays? The American people.
Iām sorry, but I just donāt believe that a country that can fend off foreign invaders, go to the Moon, build a sophisticated computer network - cannot do something as simple as protect the border. I simply donāt believe it. Because itās not true.
If immigration laws are rigorously enforced, and employers get their proper sanctions - illegals will begin to self-deport. Weāve seen this in Georgia arleady with their new illegal law. Weāve seen it occur in Arizona. Proper enforcement leads to results. And itās not like these states approved anything extraordinary - merely they reaffirmed existing federal law. And proper federal oversight will help find the rest.
Once we squeeze them out of welfare benefits, in-state tuition, jobs - most will go home on their own, and most of the rest will be put into a box until we can find them and send them home. We can do this. It can be a gradual process over several years - but it can be done. Any other solution is simply unacceptable - it will show that our laws donāt mean anything, it will tell people who try to come legally that their efforts arenāt worth it, and worst of all, it will invite millions more.
They tried the amnesty thing in 1986 with the āgreat compromiseā between Republicans and Democrats - and that failed. The only thing it did was encourage several million more to come to the United States.
Iād rather spend time trying to help our own people. The millions of Americans who are falling into poverty, the families who are struggling to support their families - the drug addicts, the homeless. There are ghettos, alcoholics, serial killers, thieves, mentally unstable. And there are more than enough of these people who need support. There are plenty of regular, average, middle-class Americans who just want to get by. Our culture is being transformed into something unrecognizable, English is being displaced in certain areas, and taxes are continually squeezed onto fewer and fewer people.
I care about them. Once we get our own house in order, then we can worry about saving the world. But as Paul said,
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"But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel."* (1 Timothy 5:8)
Iām sorry Itwin, but I simply do not agree with you.
