Immigration reform a must

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well I’m in Canada, but it looks like things are boiling over down there, the US is being flooded with illegals.

You have essentially an open border, we don’t. I don’t thin this is the solution:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Part of enforcing our borders is to have a guest-worker program that encourages people to register their presence so that we know who they are, and says to them, ‘If you’re doing a job an American won’t do, you’re welcome here for a period of time to do that job,’ ” Bush said.​

what’s the difference between that and amnesty?

The Minutemen are back, thousand of them:

abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1801057&page=1

Trying to reach a compromise:

today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-04-04T230746Z_01_N04185556_RTRIDST_0_USA-IMMIGRATION.XML

Mexico REALLY needs to reform itself, geez
 
The author’s example of the immigrants from Italy overlooks the fact that many people in the USA in the 1920’s were just as bigoted against the Italians as many are against the Mexicans now and opposed letting them enter the country, too. But, aside from that, I think some kind of program is needed to help those who do come to America every season to pick crops or who work in menial jobs our middle class kids won’t take even as summer work. It isn’t fair to rely on these illegal immigrants to fill these jobs and then make it impossible for them to do so legally. Either we should keep them out of the country and hire our own citizens or we should acknowledge the fact that we allow them to come here, although with a lot of hassles, legal and otherwise, in order to fulfill jobs our people don’t want to do.
 
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The author’s example of the immigrants from Italy overlooks the fact that many people in the USA in the 1920’s were just as bigoted against the Italians as many are against the Mexicans now and opposed letting them enter the country, too. But, aside from that, I think some kind of program is needed to help those who do come to America every season to pick crops or who work in menial jobs our middle class kids won’t take even as summer work. It isn’t fair to rely on these illegal immigrants to fill these jobs and then make it impossible for them to do so legally. Either we should keep them out of the country and hire our own citizens or we should acknowledge the fact that we allow them to come here, although with a lot of hassles, legal and otherwise, in order to fulfill jobs our people don’t want to do.
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Just one thought. We keep hearing about the jobs that people in this country won’t do, which, evidently is supposed to justify letting illegals come into the country. I believe in the future, as all of our higher paying jobs dry up and head for China and other countries, people will be taking the lower paying jobs avaliable, just to keep food on the table. This is already true here in the midwest. This will bring down our wage scale, and eliminate the middle-class, which has been the goal all along.
 
“Before 1924, immigration required booking passage on a ship, arriving and entering the country,” said Jeffrey Dosik, library technician at the National Parks Service on Ellis Island."

limaohio.com/story.php?IDnum=24172

“A literacy test, forcing immigrants to prove they could read and write in their own language, was imposed in 1917”

Government policy changes all the time. Right now there are stringent regulations for immigration and long waiting periods.

Circumventing these laws is illegal.

End of story.
 
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davy39:
Just one thought. We keep hearing about the jobs that people in this country won’t do, which, evidently is supposed to justify letting illegals come into the country. I believe in the future, as all of our higher paying jobs dry up and head for China and other countries, people will be taking the lower paying jobs avaliable, just to keep food on the table. This is already true here in the midwest. This will bring down our wage scale, and eliminate the middle-class, which has been the goal all along.
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Illegal immigrants, especially from Mexico, are and have been in this country for generations. It is just plain silly for us to go on pretending they make/have made no contribution to our society and are nothing but undesirables. They currently do a good deal of the lowly jobs our people will not do, this is a fact. Out-sourcing of business to other countries isn’t going to change that. If we want to see an end to illegal immigration from Mexico, we ought to be encouraging the Mexican government to do something to alleviate the poverty of their own country so that America will no longer be inviting to millions of their people.
 
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