Jim Yell, November 15 at 1:31 pm #
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No matter how you cut it, illegal entry is illegal. It is the same as a homeless person breaking into your private home to set up house keeping.

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Well, only if that homeless person was first made HOMELESS by you…..

Oh, pulleeez!  The “American Indians” lost the country because of white immigration?  Well, in a screwy sort of way you can say that, but the fact is the whites stole the land and broke every promise they ever made.  People coming here from Mexico for work in the fields are not stealing anything—unless you think that taking care of them if they get sick is “stealing”—which is a reach!  No, the whites stole this country from the “American Indians,” who are really the original, native people well established here before they ever faced our guns and alcohol, syphillis, smallpox and t.b.
  If we were halfway fair, it would be entirely possible to pay Mexican labor a decent wage for the hard physical work they do, prevent them from getting killed as they cross the border, educate their kids, give them essential health care, and still have money left over.  All we have to do is stop fighting wars and attempting to monopolize the world’s limited resources. Buenos noches.

hello. the politics stinks of multiple fraudulent vote counting in the upcoming elections. purposeful neglect does not entitle amnesty ahead of legal applicants. the immigration issue need not casually be gleaned over: as if other government growth areas appear more lucrative. border safety is easily accomplished with genuine intent. illegals do not qualify to become a blanket burden upon our social infrastructure. they should all be escorted out of the country, and our system should simultaneously be updated to incorporate them more painlessly, into our lives.

Marshall, November 14 at 12:16 am #

We already have a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status” - it’s called
applying for legal status.
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What we really have is a bureaucratic nightmare, one that takes upwards of seven years to obtain an entry visa, one that is slanted to certain ethnicities and geographic areas. Tell someone whose children are hungry that they “may” gain entry in seven years….

If we enforced our borders, our current system would be working fine.

I would appreciate a suggestion as to how one controls border access along a 1969 mile stretch? Far better we deal with the way or own corporations are wrecking the economies of those nations supplying the desperate peoples seeking work here because they cannot find it there…..

We already have a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status” - it’s called
applying for legal status.  If we enforced our borders, our current system would
be working fine.  Obama once again goes for his familiar middle ground in
offering a free amnesty pass to 12 milliion legal offenders and encouraging more
in the process while talking tough on border enforcement.  He’s fast becoming the
namby-pamby Carter of this decade and I see the hope evaporating off him like
the steam rising from a train wreck.

Further proof that Obama is in his own little world. The last thing we need is 12 million more people in the system. If he really wants to “change” this, he needs to get these aliens deported.

Giving these people amnesty would encourage a new wave of illegal immigrants. This is proven. That’s what happened the last time the illegals were “pardoned”. The ONLY solution is enforcing our borders.

Funny how a government so concerned about “terrorists” entering illegally, yet ANYONE can just walk through our Southern border.

Wouldn’t it be nice if all of the Latinos entering via Mexico would stay home? All of the energy they expend getting here would be better used in improving their own countries.

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

EEK-onomics lesson:  Capitalism worked for a while in the northern hemisphere because northerners pulled resources out of the southern hemisphere countries, processed them and sold them and kept most of the cash, “trickling down” a few pennies here and there as patronage, installing dictators,  killing priests, trafficing in drugs, or selling the south debts they could never pay.  Now capitalism is nearing the end of that line and finding out that when you hurt others you hurt yourself and eventually it’s not fun anymore because the people you hurt, hate you.

To proceed, certain reforms have to established—such as increasing economic justice, social welfare, peace on earth, good will toward men—and women—and children. To paraphrase the little guy with the sheet around his hips:  “If a kid in Bolivia or Darfur is hungry and I have more food than I need, I am a thief!”  The eye of the needle speaks plain English as well as several other international languages.

Obama’s corporate sponsors insist on this foolishness, which the vast majority of Americans oppose. What about the millions of foreigners who have filed their papers to immigrate, taken physicals, paid fees and waited years to legally immigrate. Are they suckers?

What about the thousands that now plan to jump the fence to become legal immigrants, and then are forced to live on the streets and collect food stamps because there are no jobs? Undocumented means just that, there is no evidence of when they arrived.

If Obama wants immigration reform and wants to help bankrupt states, he should agree to take all immigrants in state custody into the federal system (which is 30% in California) Then he should certify the nation is at full employment before he allows more foreign workers.

Poor and unemployed Americans agree with me, those with nice jobs or family money may not, since they enjoy the cheap landscapers and housekeepers.