How many of you have written to your representatives on the new proposal, and if you have, for or against?
Answer:
I have phoned. Against.
Sorry-
Ah-Immigration. I wonder what a judge would say if I stood before her/him and declared that I didn't have to comply with (insert statute here) because 12 million or so ppl are here illegally and they are getting amnesty. I'm sure it would not fly.
However, I have worked in a couple of different industries, restaurant and auto care, that rely heavily on Latin workers, illegal or not. I have made some valuable, lasting friendships with ppl who I worked side by side flipping burgers in a restaurant, or wiping down a car at a car wash in Kansas City, Kansas, that overstayed their tourist visas because working conditions and life in their native country was so bad that they didn't mind dodging the law here to provide a better life for their families. (One young man I worked with, Pancha, he worked his *** off, made 1000x what he could've made in southern Mexico). These are people that I broke bread with at their homes and vice versa.
After researching conditions in a lot of the countries Latinos and other nationalities come from, I cannot fault anyone for being in my country, legal or not. It is not the fault of the peoples, but perhaps the government for not taking care of business in the first place, and failing the peoples, all.
We cannot break up families that have been here for a generation or more working their a**es off. Our economy depends on them, and it is an issue of morals and respect for humans.
Remember the little boy that Janet Reno had the law storm into a church and snatch him up from his mother. That's crazy. It is a f*ucked situation.
I have, I say deport them all. I deported people already and will continue to for as long as I have to.
I have written my congressman and both of my senators. I have signed the petition. I am OPPOSED to giving AMNESTY to illegal aliens.
I did .. I am so mad that I sent this to everyone in Washington !
Please do not support this newest immigration bill.
How can the government pardon so many criminals ? The laws have been on the books for years. Use some of the 2.5 trillion this proposal is going to cost US the AMERICAN taxpayer, and ENFORCE the law as it is written. This is a repeat of the 1988 proposal..it didn't work then, and it won't work now. LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ! ARE WE NOT SHOUTING/ SCREAMING LOUD ENOUGH FOR YOU TO HEAR US in Washington ? Or maybe it's just that you are so out of touch with the rest of us you really don't care ?
Can't this Government hear anything but the sound of cash registers ??
I call for a VOTE of NO CONFIDENCE in the Untied States Government !
You have asked the people of the Untied States for suggestions to the immigration problem. Well here is my suggestion...
Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
# in the country legally;
# have the means to sustain themselves economically;
# not destined to be burdens on society;
# of economic and social benefit to society;
# of good character and have no criminal records; and
# contributors to the general well-being of the nation.
The law also ensures that:
# immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;
# foreign visitors do not violate their visa status;
# foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country's internal politics;
# foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;
# foreign visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;
# those who aid in illegal immigration will be sent to prison.
Who could disagree with such a law? It makes perfect sense. The Mexican constitution strictly defines the rights of citizens -- and the denial of many fundamental rights to non-citizens, illegal and legal. Under the constitution, the Ley General de Poblacion, or General Law on Population, spells out specifically the country's immigration policy.
It is an interesting law -- and one that should cause us all to ask, Why is our great southern neighbor pushing us to water down our own immigration laws and policies, when its own immigration restrictions are the toughest on the continent? If a felony is a crime punishable by more than one year in prison, then Mexican law makes it a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.
If the United States adopted such statutes, Mexico no doubt would denounce it as a manifestation of American racism and bigotry.
We looked at the immigration provisions of the Mexican constitution. [1] Now let's look at Mexico's main immigration law.
Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society:
# Foreigners are admitted into Mexico "according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress." (Article 32)
# Immigration officials must "ensure" that "immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance" and for their dependents. (Article 34)
# Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets "the equilibrium of the national demographics," when foreigners are deemed detrimental to "economic or national interests," when they do not behave like good citizens in their own country, when they have broken Mexican laws, and when "they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy." (Article 37)
# The Secretary of Governance may "suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he determines it to be in the national interest." (Article 38)
Mexican authorities must keep track of every single person in the country:
# Federal, local and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon request, i.e., to assist in the arrests of illegal immigrants. (Article 73)
# A National Population Registry keeps track of "every single individual who comprises the population of the country," and verifies each individual's identity. (Articles 85 and 86)
# A national Catalog of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), and assigns each individual with a unique tracking number (Article 91).
Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned:
# Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned. (Article 116)
# Foreigners who sign government documents "with a signature that is false or different from that which he normally uses" are subject to fine and imprisonment. (Article 116)
Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:
# Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117)
# Foreigners who are deported from Mexico and attempt to re-enter the country without authorization can be imprisoned for up to 10 years. (Article 118)
# Foreigners who violate the terms of their visa may be sentenced to up to six years in prison (Articles 119, 120 and 121). Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa while in Mexico -- such as working with out a permit -- can also be imprisoned.
Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony. The General Law on Population says,
# "A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally." (Article 123)
# Foreigners with legal immigration problems may be deported from Mexico instead of being imprisoned. (Article 125)
# Foreigners who "attempt against national sovereignty or security" will be deported. (Article 126)
Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter the country are themselves considered criminals under the law:
# A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison. (Article 127)
# Shipping and airline companies that bring undocumented foreigners into Mexico will be fined. (Article 132)
All of the above runs contrary to what Mexican leaders are demanding of the United States. The stark contrast between Mexico's immigration practices versus its American immigration preachings is telling. It gives a clear picture of the Mexican government's agenda: to have a one-way immigration relationship with the United States.
Let's call Mexico's bluff on its unwarranted interference in U.S. immigration policy. Let's propose, just to make a point, that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) member nations, and the United States Government, standardize their immigration laws by using Mexico's own law as a model.
Of course - we won't let the history of illegal deportations repeat it's self. All this fear of today's illegal immigrants remind me the history of this nation - the illegal deportations of the 1930's and how the Hispanic population of that time was powerless to stop what happened back then.
The fact is the minority population now excedes 100 million people, and Hispanics account for nearly half that growth.
No precise figures exist on how many of those deported in the 1930s were illegal immigrants. Since many of those harassed left on their own, and their journeys were not officially recorded, there are also no exact figures on the total number who departed. At least 345,839 people went to Mexico from 1930 to 1935, with 1931 as the peak year, says a 1936 dispatch from the U.S. Consulate General in Mexico City. "It was a racial removal program," says Mae Ngai, an immigration history expert at the University of Chicago, adding people of Mexican ancestry were targeted.
In the early 1900s, Mexicans poured into the USA, welcomed by U.S. factory and farm owners who needed their labor. Until entry rules tightened in 1924, they simply paid a nickel to cross the border and get visas for legal residency."The vast majority were here legally, because it was so easy to enter legally," says Kevin Johnson, a law professor at the University of California, Davis.
They spread out across the nation. They sharecropped in California, Texas and Louisiana, harvested sugar beets in Montana and Minnesota, laid railroad tracks in Kansas, mined coal in Utah and Oklahoma, packed meat in Chicago and assembled cars in Detroit.
By 1930, the U.S. Census counted 1.42 million people of Mexican ancestry, and 805,535 of them were U.S. born, up from 700,541 in 1920. Change came in 1929, as the stock market and U.S. economy crashed. That year, U.S. officials tightened visa rules, reducing legal immigration from Mexico to a trickle. They also discussed what to do with those already in the USA.
Now in 2007, the fear mongers are making the same claims about the economy and the lack of decent jobs - We must not let the past repeat it's self! We also must express to our leaders that we will not allow a fearful few to re-instate failed poilicies of the past.
Yes, I did... against it. And I know that many who did send them in had theirs kicked back to them because the servers could not handle the mass emails.
I know that Americans often will riot when they are finally fed up, I forsee this happening in the future.
This has our founding fathers turning in their graves.
I have written, e-mailed and called. I'm totally against amnesty. These people should be deported, not rewarded for breaking the law!!
I have actually written my senators and my representative. I wrote them to support the bill. The new bill might not be perfect but I think it would be a great injustice not to pass it. If it fails it will just get shelved for another year and then nothing at all will be solved and the problem will only get worse. Perhaps the new bill won't fix the entire problem but it will certainly help the current situation and give us something to build on for future legislation.
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