I realize this is one of the big issues and a very tender one at that. So, despite my instincts otherwise, here I go....... There are two distinct sides here
1. against it
2. For it
But it doesn't have to be that way. There are various shades of both sides. The facts are; There are both illegal and legal imigrants in the U.S. They are NOT the same folks. There are over twenty MILLION illegals here. Although many are of a hispanic origin, they are not all Mexicans. They do put a drain on infrastructure (schools,roads,water supply,police/fire,etc), They DO pay taxes (sales&other misc) but do NOT pay income tax.
Sadly, some folks objection to immigrants illegal or legal is based on race. There are others, myself included, who's objection is $$ related.
Okay, how do we solve it? Let's start with what we CANNOT do........
1. cannot round up 20,000,000 hiding folks, the logistics alone prevents that.
2. cannot just turn our heads and offer free & clear amnesty.
What can we do ? none of these solve the problem by themself.
1. FIRST We TIGHTEN up the borders. and not some hokey fence either. 2. We create a comprehensive process that assimilates those aforementioned 20 million .
3. as part B of 1 and 2, We streamline the process that enables new immigrants tobecome citizens, full taxpaying citizens. One thing that is NOT acceptable is to do Nothing! We've done nothing for over twenty years
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LOVE this. As you and I know, we are much closer politically than the labels we carry would suggest. <3
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything except offering citizenship. These people came here with a total disrespect for our laws and in turn our country. We should be profiling people for obvious reasons. As they are discovered they should be deported post-hast. This should start at the state level and completed by the federal level. It is outrageous to do nothing, and our leadership should be ashamed.
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