I can’t recommend his diaries enough. The earlier ones are about events too long ago for me to remember - but are still good. The volumes about the 80s and 90s are riveting. I got the man himself to sign my copy of his diaries from the 90s (called ‘Free At Last’)
As sad as that is and as much as I agree with you we should take these people in, there needs to be some order in the process, not the free for all we have now.
No one is going to criminalize 11 million people, unless they fail to register. As far as registering goes, it’s probably going to end up having the illegal aliens pay a fine and that’s it, they get their citizenship. No one is going to split up families; I don’t even think that was proposed in either of the immigration bills.
If you would get your facts straight, you would see that the only people out of the 11 million not eligible to stay and would be rounded-up are those with criminal records (felonies like robbery, rape, etc.). There is nothing racist about it. You and everyone else are up in arms because they happen to have tan skin, so you think it must be a race issue. I guarantee that if it was Canadians and not Mexicans, you wouldn’t be pulling the race card or even caring for that matter.
I agree. Especially those who think they know better than everyone else what a person should think on this immigration issue.
I’m going to assume this is intended to be sarcasm.
Then why aren’t you and like minded people lobbying the US government or NATO or other governments to provide aid?
Never been to any of those places. No desire to ever go.
Again, if this is the state of life for so many, why aren’t you and others doing something about instead of asking Americans to allow people to break the law?
If they come here legally, I have no problem with them coming at all.
Not easily. But yes, we can.
You haven’t read the proposed law at all, have you?
You can run around yeliing “the sky is falling,” but it’s going to be hilarious when the bill passes and not too much changes for those already here, except for the fact they now have access to all the services every US citizen has access too.
Kinda what I thought you would say.
I do, thank you. It appears your understandings is what you want the bill to be: evil and heartless.
Yes to everything but working in an orphanage.
But those aren’t the issues at hand.
That’s the whole point of a debate, isn’t it?
And the law makers are right. Unless we are attacked by Mexico or they start to commit genocide, our government can’t do anything to them.
I feel for these kids, but we can’t make their lives better if we have a free for all immigration policy. If we do that, then they could very well come into a country just as bad as the one they left.
I must have missed that post you’re referring. Nice to see you’ve been active in letter writing. Might be time to try something else if you feel so strongly about the issue.
No, but I can look into that child’s eyes and say, “here’s what you need to learn in order to improve your life here in Mexico for you and your family” while teaching them how to apply their skills to do so.
Of course not. Especially since the people bringing the truckloads of illegals across the border charge way more than that. I also won’t look any child in the eye and tell them it’s okay to break the law.
Sure am.
Good for you! We adopted a girl from India.
Good for you!
Opening hearts and minds to the plight of any group of poor people is a good thing to do. Advocating the deliberate violation of US immigration law isn’t
Yes, ignorance is blissful, but turning away the poor who arrive on your doorsteep is just terrible… remember, our duty to charity is more than just putting some money in a collection basket…
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because I am not a politician. I am simply a citizen who has seen both sides, all I can do protest and get my point of view out there for others to see and hope and pray that those more educated than me can come up with a better more democratic solution. I agree it can not be a free for all. but something has to be done to streamline the process, make it affordable and accessable to all of them who want to come over here and work. Like it or not they are contributing to this society in more ways than one, including our economy and we can not just deport them all. Someone mentioned that the ones that are here now will be given amnesty and asked to pay a fine, if its a small fine thats fine, theres going to be proccessing fees etc. that need to be taken care of. However, the way our government and the people of this country have treated them before, I doubt they are going to be so willing to come forward. They dont trust our system and I dont blame them. Also I dont think it should be a requirement that they learn english to live here, they have a right to hold onto their culture.
Yes, ignorance is blissful, but turning away the poor who arrive on your doorsteep is just terrible… remember, our duty to charity is more than just putting some money in a collection basket…
I second Geladin: show us where you disagree
Because they aren’t busting through the border along with potential terrorists, VAST amount of narcotics (and I’m not talking about weed), and taking pop shots at Federal Agents.
If you understood what the bill really said, not what you want it to say, then we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Try again, there’s a stem on the apple.
I have not personally been affected, as in couldn’t get a job. I did sit back and watch my college tuition rise every semester and watch the number of Mexican students increase, especially the ones whos parents came here illegally and their kids now get to have free rides b/c they’re Hispanic and/or get in state tuition fees.
Isn’t that what I have been saying for two days now?
Well, why don’t people like yourself help then understand the benefits of coming forward and assist them in doing so?
So learning the language of the country you move to is giving up your culture? Apparently it didn’t hurt the cultures of the Italians, Polish, Germans, Koreans, Japanese, etc. If you moved to France, would you refuse to learn French?
I would learn French to get around, of my own accord. But it isnt easy and can take years to learn. Did you know that English is the most difficult and complex language there is to learn? Thats why there are ESL teachers, so we can teach them to function and communicate in an English speaking country, but it shouldnt be a requirement. Kids used to get paddled for speaking spanish in schools in Texas and Georgia. Im sure other states, but those are the only two I have experianced it with.
Wow, I am too. I was born in the US. I was able to go to college too. Not because I’m a native American, but because I was accepted into a school and paid the tuition.
Oh, you mean you’re an American Indian? Now I understand. I’m not an American Indian. I am a native American though
OK, now we’re getting somewhere. Why is it you disagree with the fence and *possible *deportation? (So much easier to have a civil debate when you actually say what you don’t like).
Terrorism was one of many reasons.
You’re putting words into my mouth: I never said drugs or terrorists hadn’t come in from Canada. But you don’t have tens of billions of dollars worth of cocaine and heroine coming across the Canadian border, mainly because it’s harder to get it into Canada then the US when you can ship it up straight up from South America, Central America, and/or Mexico where it’s grown. And we are grabbing a lot of people from the border that aren’t Hispanic; I’ve got friends on the border patrol and its amazing what they see.