Should illegal immigrants be granted amnesty?
Would you perceive this as saying if enough people commit the same crime it should no longer be considered a crime?
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Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !
that means people who are on temporary passes(came her legally) will be deported.
Why not-give all FELONS amnesty.
We don't need laws..
It's looking that way isn't it? Maybe we should quit paying taxes.
Having to pay a $5000 fine and being required to go back home for a period of time isn't exactly AMNESTY in my book.
I am furious over this newly proposed amnesty for illegal aliens. My father was an immigrant. He came to this country legally, served in the army during the war and was proud to become an American citizen.
In the 1980s illegal immigrants were given amnesty and all it appeared to do was to let others know that if they sneak into this country they could take advantage of our generosity. Since that time these aliens have added billions to the cost of education, medical care, and social services. The gang warfare in our district has increased radically and the latest reports state that illnesses have also risen.
Instead of punishing employers for hiring these illegal immigrants we are giving them a cheap workforce that decreases an American citizen’s ability to advance. There is nothing in this proposal that is beneficial to the average American and, in fact, I cannot see anything but problems as the aliens take jobs and cost us a fortune in free benefits.
I hope, indeed I pray, that Congress will come to its senses and reject this harmful proposal.
Illegal immigration is completely different from other "crimes." For other crimes, it is clear and simple what you have to do to NOT be a criminal. Don't want to be a murderer? Then don't kill somebody. Don't want to be a thief? Then don't steal.
For illegal immigrants, it is different. We all say they should be legal, but how many people (without looking it up on your nifty computer, which most immigrants don't have) here can actually tell me exactly what you have to do to be a LEGAL immigrant. Who do you talk to? What paperwork is there? How do you get it when you are living in poverty and have no resources?
I don't know if they should be given amnesty. But I find it rather suspicious that so many people are against them, and yet no one seems to want them to help them become legal, either. In any case, if it is a crime to want to make your life better, then we are all guilty.
NO - CAN NOT BE EFFECTIVELY ENFORCED EITHER!
12 million in reality will be 30 million in 10 years and won't stop ILLEGALS!
ILLEGAL Immigration #1 concern...
If we don't stop the Kennedy - McCain insanity bill we will be like Iraq 20 yrs down the road with Mexicans being the Sunni's; D's being the Shia's and R's being the Kurds
WE ALL HAVE TO DO OUR PART AND DEMAND WHAT 'WE, THE PEOPLE' WANT.CONTACT CONGRESS TODAY BY EMAIL OR PHONE.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home...
82% so far have voted here [liberals and conservatives] against this AMNESTY bill.
http://www.numbersusa.com/dfax?action=vo...
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HECK NO !!! They should be deported immediately
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