i was wondering if you kids would like to weigh in
on the immigration issue
certainly after the nation-wide protests one thing is clear
11 million illegal aliens in this country are no longer willing to be ignored
i have pals who say let them all stay, give them all legal status but tighten up the borders so more dont enter
and yet most illegals come in on airplanes and just dont leave
so what don't let anyone come here in vacation anymore either?
but if let everyone stay who is illegal and just have a
if you make it in, you can stay policy
dont we ulitmately become over-run beyond all control and ultimately a country that one wants to escape not enter..
and yet there are people in this country who have lived here for years, decades who have lives, family everything here
and who very, very often do the hard cheap work, no legal american seems willing to do..
this country does not get to benefit from their hard work because they can't pay taxes..
deporting 11 million immigrants would probably destroy our economy not to mention a lot of lives..
so where is the middle ground?
i would like them all to stay,
pay taxes
vote
be a part of the system not one who hides from it
but i also wonder
how do you lay out enough ground rules to keep america from being over-populated
and yet bow to the fact that illegal workers are not going anywhere so might as well give them rights, status and take their money like you take the rest of our money
where our money goes which at the moment is to iraq is another story that i wont get into here
its the middle ground id like to hear about
do you think 11 million people should be given status?
should it only be the ones who have been here 5 years or more and can prove it?
what should new immigration laws look like?
i personally think we should make more provision in how we give visas..
it seems for most that the only way to get a visa is to have a few million bucks behind you.. how bout you can get a visa on the basis of having a family here
who loves you and needs you...call this the family visa..
we only give asylum visas to those who can really prove their lives are in danger.. how bout we give homophobia visas...to gay people from around the world who come here to live their lives in the open...maybe they cant prove that they would be killed by say the taliban...but they live somewhere where they surely would have to spend their life in the closet...like say Jamaica
anyway
just a couple ideas
im not all the way in either direction on this issue
i think im kinda in the middle
i want the illegals to be able to stay
but only if they will be good for this country
pay their taxes contribute
vote
help our economy
i dont want to see a repeat of mariel when castro dumped all his crazies and criminals on our shore and miami was destroyed for quite a while
i also think that any illegal who is given status should have rules attached...they can't go on welfare, they must contribute to the system, work pay taxes, benefit the country and return the favor of the free pass they just got
i dont think we can have great boat loads of immigrants like in the ellis island days even though immigration is the fabric of this country, and part of my own background and all of yours to some extent, because now, we have to worry about over population
but i do think we need to get that we are not going to win this
but trying to send all our illegals away
theyre here, get used to them
so find a way to have them work for us
not hide from us
so how bout you let me know your ideas
i gave you two of mine
my family visa
and homophobia visa ideas
how do we find a big compromise in all of this?
