tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560231998497098445.post1886128869234603559..comments2023-03-04T06:40:52.106-08:00Comments on Change the Change: Rebuild the GOP: Immigration Reform: GOP Beware Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418424741472022262noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560231998497098445.post-35509651219096452892009-04-15T10:05:00.000-07:002009-04-15T10:05:00.000-07:00Hey...! We agree on something! The immigration s...Hey...! We agree on something! The immigration situation is a mess - there's no doubt. That doesn't mean that we should just give up, though. The length of time and the cost of becoming a citizen should be reasonable - it should not require lawyers to push through citizenship papers. The standards - meaning the idea that we only want "desireable" job training - is unrealistic, in the sense that we have a need for the labor of those who cannot meet those standards. It seems unconscionable to me to make it impossible for a farm worker with no education to become a citizen just because he _has_ no education. It makes it so that illegal immigration is the only way to get citizenship. And it is equally stupid not to enforce deportation on _every_ illegal who breaks the law - especially transgressions that are significantly harmful - like drunk driving. I'd even be willing for us to pay Mexico to imprison them - as long as we checked up on them constantly. <br />Thank you for recognizing that deportation of illegal immigrants is not racist..."Mexican" is _not_ a race!sueknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560231998497098445.post-36989659365341674312009-04-14T09:47:00.000-07:002009-04-14T09:47:00.000-07:00Is president Obama suggesting to give illegal immi...Is president Obama suggesting to give illegal immigrants citizenship without any fines? If he is considering this plan, then the plan is unfair to all those immigrants that have to pay for their Visas and waited years to enter this country. However, even if the citizenship comes with fines, there will be groups like the ACLU that have already stated that they will pay for these illegal immigrants fines, so their would be basically be no consequence for entering this country illegal. The GOP in their plan should propose a delay time period on citizenship for illegal immigrants. The illegal immigrants should be able to apply for citizenship, but their citizenship application should take a few years to be fulfilled, so they would not have the citizens' right immediately, such as voting. This would be fair for the other immigrants in this country that have to wait in other countries and a few years to become a citizen. This should be one of the consequences of entering this country illegally. Another point, I am Hispanic and I do not believe that it is racist to deport illegal immigrants when the have entered this country illegally!VSanchezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07265669325913152426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560231998497098445.post-54028201027060404952009-04-13T16:22:00.000-07:002009-04-13T16:22:00.000-07:00Apparently live links cannot be posted...it would ...Apparently live links cannot be posted...it would be a lot easier if they could be!sueknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560231998497098445.post-37609382806529937632009-04-13T15:55:00.000-07:002009-04-13T15:55:00.000-07:00Considering the issue, this is a very relevant art...Considering the issue, this is a very relevant article.<br /><br />http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/04/was-financial-implosion-caused-by-open.html<br /><br />I disagree with you on alienating the Hispanics, though. Those who are legal are not particularly of amnesty - they did what was needed to get their citizenship, why shouldn't others? On the other hand, if ACORN and the Dems are successful in registering non-citizens to vote and they _do_, then indeed - they will vote themselves into citizenship.sueknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560231998497098445.post-53097441671973897422009-04-13T13:47:00.000-07:002009-04-13T13:47:00.000-07:00I've noted a couple of recent shifts in the rhetor...I've noted a couple of recent shifts in the rhetoric of immigration. DHS Secretary Janet Nepolitano's recent testimony before the Senate emphasizes enhanced collaboration with her Mexican counterparts; she discusses the border as a shared territory with shared responsibilities as opposed to a US problem of containment. She also shifts the conversation away from Mexico-to-US human traffic and toward US-to-Mexico weapons traffic--and the associated violence on both sides of the border. <BR/><BR/>I don't know how these shifts will affect the US partisan conversation on immigration--and will be curious to see how it plays out. I also have not yet read much about how the downturn in the US economy is going to affect border crossings of the human sort; if there are not jobs, why come? <BR/><BR/>Well--I have heard something: my distant Idaho potato-farming relatives wrote this on their holiday card: "Eight workers were deported; 200 applied for the vacancies."Susan Romanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12709530861499128123noreply@blogger.com