Has anyone been watching the news about the law trying to be passed so that illegal immigrants cant get an education?? I saw on the news just yesterday that a man, with two children, was deported back to his home country after being in America for 26 years. I know that we are having a problem with immigrants, but why should we punish those who have been here for so many years and already have spouses and children. A lot of these people were probably brought over by their parents, so they had nothing to do with it. I do agree that illegal immigrants trying to come over now should be dealt with once a law is put in place, but those who were here before the law should not be effected. What does everyone else think?
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I don't understand much of the current immigration debate. The main focus people are arguing is jobs. My main point is immigrants are not taking jobs that people want. If you wanted a hotel job or a dirty position you would have that but in America we have this holier than thou condition in which we think we should get the best of everything. We forget that the country was built on dirty work: blood, sweat and getting it done! Leave the immigrants alone!
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I agree with you. The immigrants are doing the jobs that most of us do not want. Without them everything would fall apart. I believe that is what they are trying to make America realize with protest they had a few days ago. They kept their children out of schools and stayed out of work that day. I know from experience of how a persons life can be torn apart due to deportion. My cousins husband was deported and they had a child together. Immigrants aren't causing a problem, they are a big part of what is holding our economy together, even if people don't want to admit it.
Illegal criminals do not 'hold' a friggin economy together. In fact, it was when the illegal criminals started coming in that the gap between rich and poor here widened and shockingly so. We poor in America was just getting to a point where we could get somewhere and the illegal criminals came in at the rich men's request and kicked us off our stool. They also DON'T want to assimilate....they've planted mexican flags on our soil to claim it as their own, and so help me GOD, I will defend this country from this foreign threat to our National security every chance I get. To put it plainly, you've slapped us with ur glove...get ready for it...Americans NEVER turn down a challenge. Pick ur weapons....
The only problem I have with illegal immigrants is the 'illegal' part. If you are legal, that's cool, you deserve equal rights to a natural born citizen. But if you came over here illegally, then you don't deserve those equal rights. Jobs don't even factor into the equation in my eyes.
That's just my opinion...
I understand that they are illegal, but some of them came over here as children, which means they had no decision in it, and America is they only thing they have known their whole lives. Should they be punished for what their parents did?
Nobody would mind doing the 'dirty' jobs you speak of if we could make a living wage at it. Illegals depress wages and that's a fact Jack. And you say this person has been here FOR 26 FREAKIN YEARS AND STILL DIDN'T ATTEMPT TO BECOME A CITIZEN!?!? Go blow some smoke up a stupid person's skirt, this one ain't buying.
If there is any truth to the 26 years stuff, they must not have wanted to desperately to be American because the Reagan amnesty was only 21 years ago and jsut about every illegal alien qualified particularly since it was rife with unchecked fraud. And there have been seven 245i amnesties that also allowed illegals to adjust status since the Reagan Amnesty.
Why does breaking the law for 26 years make someone eligible for benefits that someone who only broke the law for 1 year would not get. Too me it would be more logical to punish them more harshly.
I'm punished everyday because of the parents I was born to, but they didn't hand me over to strangers so I could take things that belonged to someone else. Children belong to their PARENTS! You send one, you send the kid. Period. Who do u think you are to consider keeping someone else's child for ANY reason. And people like that, with the ever increasing number of pedophiles that are being discovered in this country, well, I'm begining to wonder about those people who want to keep their kids here while their parents are deported.....it looks reaalllll suspicious....
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This is a tough issue because if an illegal immigrant family come to America and have a baby in America, who is now a citizen right?, then the baby will be an orphan and the rest of the family will be deported. But its their fault. THey should have thought of that before crossing the border.
DISCLAIMER: I am not being rude. I'm stating my opinion. No personal attacks are meant. Please give some leniency on how you take my words. imagine me saying them with a smile. ^__^
A child belongs with its parents. When the parents are deported it would be natural for the parents to take their child with them. No problem, nor orphan.
Of course the child does have the rights of a citizen. It can hold a US Passport and freely travel in and out of the USA. The family might choose for the child to stay with relatives during the school year to get an American education (for what that's worth).
A law that we need to change is the one that allows these children citizens to sponsor in their non-citizen parents as prospective citizens when they turn 18. First, it is not right that the illegals should ever benefit from their crime. They should not get citizenship as a result of having broken into America and having a child. And secondly, it is poor immigration policy to have elderly parents come to the USA as immigrants. They will not work long enough to contribute enough to Social Security to pay for the benefits that the taxpayers will have to cough up when they retire. Immigration policy should encourage younger immigrants with long working careers in front of them, not old people and particularly not old people who don't respect our laws.