What do you really think is realistic? Mass deportation or amnesty for the ones already here?
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Why would anyone want to uproot and destroy and split up families by mass deportation.
Amnesty. If you deport, what happens to the wives/husbands and children that are here legally, they lose everything and that is not a good thing.
This country was created by immigrants. Even if you were born here, someone in your family immigrated here at some point and anyone that agrees with deportation are hypocrites. Yes there are legal route to become legal residents. But not everyone has the money or are afraid that they will be deported while waiting for a decision which is not something that is possible for most. Amnesty is the way to go. If the people have been living here for more than 5 years, working and paying tax's then they have the right to live here, just like you and me. Every one of you here are all immigrants, and if you weren't, then your parents or grandparents were. Without immigrants, there would be no America. And if the mexicans are stealing your jobs (re: a comment from dogman302007) ) then you need to get more qualifications and get a better job.
I have a freind whose husband did not have papers. He had been living and working here for 22 years and had 3 children. They tried to deport him after 9/11 ( he did nothing wrong) They held him in jail for 6 months and then just deported him with no court appearance. His children and wife did not see him for 2 years (keep in mind his kids were 7, 5 and 2 years old) His wife struggled since she had been a stay at home mom while he brought home the bacon as a airconditioner installer. He is now back here legally, but there was no reason to destroy their lives and take away these kids father for 2 years. It also cost them thousands of $$ for attourney to help them. That is not fair for someone that has worked hard and paid tax's for 22 years. They were not sucking the welfare system, just living their lives that were uprooted by this government.
The only time I agree a person should be deported is if they commited a crime. And then it should be done in court on a case by case basis depending on the severity of the crime and whether or not this person is benefical or not to this country. A person should always have his day in court whether they are legal or not. The only other time a person should be deported is if they have not been here long, and do not have american children or spouse and has no ties that can destroy lives. Then they can be deported with the option of being able to apply for residency.
Amnesty
If you are an immigrant and NOT working here, bye!!
mandatory sterilization
The same way we deploy thousands of troops overseas at the drop of a hat.
Find out who is here illegally. Find out what country they came from. Deportations every week. Maybe twice a week so the deportations centers don't get too filled up.
Mass depotation, I say like an old west roundup.
Hell NO to Amnesty... what reward people that break our Immigration laws?
Mass Deportation to me is the only option to combat people that have no respect for the Immigration laws realistic once the govt find you in the country illegally good-bye!!!
deport them if they havent been here for 10 or more years there is way too many here amnesty is for the government to get money from them and they want $$$ any way they can get it but the truth is 98% of illegals do not pay taxes so deport their job stealing butts back to mexico
I live in Arizona....
Look up "Operation Wet*ack".
It wouldn't let me spell out the whole word.
I'm not racist, that was the actual name of the operation. It was formed by President Eisenhower in 1954.
We need to bring it back!!
Amnesty of course. Our only options are amnesty or some third way because mass deportation simply isn't possible.
I do not mean because of the logistic difficulties or the massive human suffering of the people being deported. The real reason why mass deportation simply cannot work is how do you find which people to deport? 300,000,000 of us (and "them") coming in to be vetted on whether we are citizens or not? Vetted by whom? Folks who can be bribed? Make mistakes? So we all get vetted twice? In widely separated places so as to not be so likely to be subject to the same mistakes or bribery rings? Perhaps we could all journey to our towns of birth and stay in stables and have children in mangers while being vetted?
Think on that. Just how many of your fellow citizens would go through that hell just to kick out productive Americans (that's right, and I don't mean it because they come from this hemisphere, I mean it in the sense all us Americans do) who do work cheaply that "real" Americans would refuse to do without rather high pay? Very few, I wager. Look at how many school levies fail while everyone moans about schools needing money to work properly.
So just forget mass deportation now and forever. It will never be an option. All those Russians wanted to choose between being free and rich or poor and slaves. Sadly for them, no matter how much they resented it and wished it were not so, they really only had poor and free or poor and slaves to choose from. So too us.
I do balk at mass amnesty unless it is a finely grained one with a lot of work involved. Just granting it and putting people on a path to citizenship with no effort taken particular to each one's circumstances is foolish, or, at best ill-considered.
But it is the only REAL idea on offer at present. We can though, muddle along like at present for a few more years before having to settle on something. So... any actually workable ideas?
Amnesty defeats the purpose of our imigration laws. And while mass deportations would be problematic, they are our best option.
But, before we do that, we must secue our borders, and make it a felony to hire illegal workers in the first place. If they have no jobs here, and they are treated like the criminals they are, it removes the desire to come here. We have *got* to remove the welcome mat. A good way to do that is get rid of the 'anchor baby" laws. A preganant illegal immigrant sneaks across our border and gives birth here. Now her child is a citizen, so she gets to stay. I know the liberals will howl, but we have to tell her to make a choice: take your baby and go back where you came from, or leave the baby here and go back yourself. I know it sounds cruel, but it has to be done. We have to take some kind of concrete steps to stop these leeches from coming here, draining our resources and public programs, and contributing nothing in return.
In short, if we take away the incentive to come here in the first place, and make them feel unwelcome if the do come here, it will do alot to stem the tide. Follow that by prosecuting them and sending them back to Mexico (just across the border is far enough, they found their way here, let them find their way home again), and let the Mexican government deal with its own people instead of pawning them off on us, we will see an improvement.
Mass deportation doesn't make sense but slow leaisurely removal does. Stop the employers doing their dirt, close the border and start picking up the illegals as they break the law. Drunk driving etc. If you can't get work, and you can't get ahead and you are always looking over your shoulder ...who wants to live like that. Truly, I don't believe the Mexicans are starving in Mexico as they would have us beleive. Why would they continue to be SO Mexican (Mexicanos being the most illegal). Remember the March? Mexican flag everywhere..
We will solve it slowly but surely. I do think they will go. And course there will be SOME legalizations. But there will be no amnesty at this point. It's a politically dead word and idea ...and it doesnt work. We'd be back in the same problem in a year or so if they did that. Good question though.
Mass deportation is not realistic, and I didn't notice any good plans given here. I am hoping for amnesty and a plan that will work to shut the borders down.. Canada and Mexico. We need know who is coming into this country.. and it should have been done along time ago.
I think we should grant amnesty for the ones who are here and are not hard core criminal (molesters, murderers), and the ones who work and do not live off the government. Amnesty is more realistic. Mass deportation costs to much, and I don't want to pay for it out of my taxes, or do the job. Give the good people a chance.
I think it would be a combination of both- after thorough background checks, those who committed serious crimes would have to go, and a chance for legalization for those who have been here for a long time and have been working and not committing violent crimes.
The easiest cheap way is Amnesty. Mass deportation will set back the tax payers billions of dollars.
I'm just being reasonable and realistic.
Amnesty is the easy and politically correct way out, so that's what's going to happen. Mass deportation can be done in a systematic fashion that would take time, but it is realistic as well. But The Horror! How could one support such a racist, nativist act, the apologists would say. And thus that will never happen, but it could be done if there was a will.
Gidget, those are not the only two answers. There is systematic enforcement at all places they get services, for example, so they are discouraged from coming and many go back on their own.
There is dismantling of benefit magnets as well as strict enforcement in employment.
I have got ideas, but chief amongst those is that we can't simply 'give amnesty to those here' without solving the problem and requiring no family reunification rights attach with any current legalization.
Did you go to public school here?
Have you assessed the quality of education in the school you attended, recently?
California estimated it would have to open a new elementary school EVERY DAY to keep up with projected flow including births here to immigrants.
We simply DON'T have the resources and infrastructure for it to go on like this.
In my humble opinion, there must be a way to "realistically" enforce American immigration laws without "Granting" any illegal alien any form of reward for their criminal activities.
Why must the Pro- illegal crowd always begin every argument with "giving" criminals a way out of becoming responsible for their actions?
If you raised a child to believe in this manner, ie., no responsibility for your actions and constant pardoning of unacceptable behavior, You would have a sociopathic child running loose in society. That would not reflect well on your parenting skills, would it?
"Realistic" answers are going to be tough answers to the problems we face. "Realistic" solutions are going to cost everyone, not just a few who would rather give millions of criminals a pardon in order to cut costs. Amnesty may save a dollar now, but it will cost much more in the economic & societal long run.
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