The 2009 political winds gave Democrats a substantial majority in the House and a filibuster -proof Senate, yet a year of inter-party bickering left the President empty handed when it came to health care legislation, cap-and-trade and immigration reform.
"People are angry and disillusioned," Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill) said in a recent interview.
Gutierrez criticized the Obama administration for not trying harder for legislation that would grant amnesty for most immigrants. The Illinois Congressman and author of 2010 comprehensive immigration reform legislation conceded that he short at least 18 votes in the House and therefore unable to move the bill he sponsored.
Gutierrez made a trip this week to Los Angeles to discuss amnesty and to headline a town hall meeting at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, known as "La Placita," which has acknowledged its sanctuary standing for illegal immigrants.
In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Gutierrez said that Obama's failure to push immigration reform was symbolized by his State of the Union address last Wednesday, “when he devoted 38 of about 7,300 words to the issue.”
“The throwaway line," Gutierrez said, was the final straw for many activists. Many hard-line immigration activists have been perturbed by the Obama Administrations continued deportations and enforcement actions that haven’t led to any real progress on reform.
It’s been reported by government data that President Obama has continued the removals of illegal immigrants. In 2009, deportations grew to 387,790 from 291,060 in 2007 under the Bush administration.
In a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, spokesman Matt Chandler said the administration remained "committed to confronting this problem" by using administrative and enforcement tools as well as work with Congress to find more solutions.
Gutierrez’ inability to consolidate fellow Democrats to pass meaningful reform and offer amnesty to most of the nation's 12-20 million illegal immigrants, issue more family visas, increase worker protections doesn’t sit well with impatient immigration groups.
“Get ready to be bombarded with all the scary and racist, hate -filled arguments on why this country should not pass comprehensive immigration reform and why we should give mass deportations, or ‘attrition through enforcement’ a chance,” according to immigration activist Tony Herrera. “Then get ready for massive celebration from the 12 million undocumented immigrants who will embrace their new-found American citizenship, they’ll move on and quickly and quietly assimilate into our fabric of society, some have already begun such assimilation, but those anti-immigrant groups will remain, small in numbers, but increasingly vocal, persistent in their attempt to drive a wedge and stifle a cohesive and multi-cultural America.”
The cynical sniping continues from Gutierrez on his website regarding the immigration battle expected to heat up later this year. “In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants. Your favorite lost on Dancing with the Stars? Let’s blame immigrants for that one, too.”
Terse rhetoric will not encourage those on the fence to support immigration activists especially in a tough economy and double-digit unemployment.
“Skeptical politicians believe it drives poll numbers, cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings. The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation,” according to Gutierrez.
“In Congress, we’ve responded year after year with legislation, often bipartisan,” Gutierrez explains. While many immigrant opponents would never even come to the table to craft a workable solution to the urgent crisis, immigration activists sit patiently at that table, often making concessions after concessions and going home with nothing.
But it’s precisely the illegal immigrant activists’ tactics that many Americans find hard to understand. For example many illegals play “the keeping the family together card.” Gutierrez says he is interested in “The ability of a mother to stay with her son or an honest person to find work and for all families in the country to be safe-three simple principles. Three American principles. Not just for immigrants, but for all of us. Every American will benefit from this bill, from the heightened national security, from the commitment to family unity, from the common-sense approach to jobs and our economy,” the Congressman finished.
However, Americans concerned with illegals that entered the country illegally and play the family card, explain that nobody is keeping families apart. “Illegal immigrants can go back to their home country and reunite with their families. Nobody is forcing parents to leave their kids behind, it’s a big misnomer,” say anti-illegal immigration activists.
As a candidate for President, Obama said, “We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day.”
However, fast forward a year and in the President’s first State of the Union speech in which he spoke vaguely about immigration, “We should continue to work at fixing our broken immigration system to secure our borders and enforce our laws and ensure that everyone who plays by rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nation.”
Not exactly what immigration reform activists were looking for from President Obama.
NumbersUSA, an organization committed to legal immigration said, “If the President really believed that putting Americans back to work was an emergency that called for tough measures, he would have announced a suspension of most new immigration of foreign workers and mandated E-Verify verification to keep illegal aliens from U.S. jobs.”
It sounds like the American voters have persuaded the White House that "comprehensive immigration reform" is far more controversial than the other items the President mentioned directly in his yearly address, according to Roy Beck of NumbersUSA.
“And for that, we can thank the millions of Americans who have contacted the White House in the last year to express their opposition to ‘comprehensive immigration reform,’" Beck finished.
Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) addressed the issue of American jobs being held by illegal immigrants this way; “We could cut the unemployment rate in half simply by enforcing immigration laws. Unfortunately, the Obama administration continues to ignore the eight million illegal immigrants holding jobs that rightfully belong to out-of-work citizens and legal immigrants.”
In an effort to have their voices heard immigrant rights supporters are organizing a national mobilization demonstration on March 21 of this year and hope to have at least 100,000 immigrants ready to march in Washington D.C.
Without immigration progress, Congressman Gutierrez warned that many Latinos would stay home from the voting booths this year and for the 2012 presidential election if D.C. fails to produce immigration reform and grant amnesty.
“We need to hold all of our political leaders accountable,” he said.
If the tea party events held across America the past year are any indication as to how the American people feel about immigration reform and amnesty, Washington politicians will face the wrath from voters on both sides of the issue.
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I thought this country was "post racial." So what's with Latinos pushing for amnesty for people they don't even know and just because they are Latino? How stupid can you get to push for amnesty for millions of people you don't even know but rah rah for because they are brown? Or because they might speak Spanish? Evidently what the good Senator is saying is that Latinos aren't very smart and can be led by the nose to create mass approval to give citizenship to anybody who speaks their language? Aren't we at least going to act as if we care who we grant citizenship to? How about the gangs? How about the child molesters? How about people with rap (not the song) sheets as long as your arm. Are these people really so gullible? I'm white and if I was being asked to support 12-20 million white criminals being rewarded with citizenship without any other knowledge of who that person(s) really are of course I would say NO NO NO NO. But then I'm not trying to "brown up" America.
Didn't you know Maggie? Those who come here illegally, come with their hands open saying gimme gimme gimme. Once they get here, they want rights, work, and almost a free home and car. They don't want to assimilate, they want to live like they are in Messico, looked at neighborhoods that are predominantly Latino, they look like slums. They have broken the law, and do not deserve this country's most coveted prize. If I snuck into another country illegally, should I demand citizenship?
Immigration Reform is not only about granting amnesty to many. It is also about changing a seriously flawed system that punishes families. Many of us are married to American citizens and have American born children. Many of us own businesses and employ American citizens, pay taxes, volunteer, responsibly pay our mortgages even though we are under the water with it, we assimilate, learn the language, customs and culture. We work hard and provide to our families and communities. All we ask is for a chance. A chance to make this a beter country for our children. The current laws do not distinguish the good from the bad. Is a bucket system
These latinos, hispanics or whatever they want to call themselves better get a real grip, and real soon. Because their marxist/socialist/leftist/narco scheme to overrun our country with their filth and detritus will soon unleash a retaliation and resentment towards them which none of them have seen since the last time these grifters were thrown out of our country en masse. These criminals only know and accept criminal behavior, and the strong consumes the weak where they slink in here from. This fool Gutierrez will be one of the first to go, and so it goes with the rest of these parasites, and they soon shall see how much "power" they have and what it will get them come November. If they were so powerful, then they wouldn't be so frustrated and left out in the cold right now. More "proud latino proud hispanic" bluster, which will go poof just as did their big rallies back here a few years ago. Where did that get them, other than closer to the exits.
Wake up you Narrow Minded People!
Immigrants Contibute Vastly to our "Good Economy" and actually support the jobs of All other Americans!
January 2008 = The Start of Deportaions.
January 2008 = The Start of the "Worst Recession in U.S. History!"
2=2+?
Any one smart enough to get it yet?
To: Rocket Science.
P.S. After we get rid of Brown, which color is next?
""David Nichols says:
P.S. After we get rid of Brown, which color is next?""
All illegal aliens are Brown?
What a moron.
Here illegally = go to jail be deported (after paying a heavy fine and being registered as a felon)
Here legally? Welcome to America.
We don't wnat or need thieving mooching illegal aliens. Illegal aliens make up 40% of our prison population, 60% of the prison population of CMexifornia. 65% of illegal aliens receive some form of American taxpayer paid welfare. They are worthless parasites and need to go. IF you are married to an American do what my wife and I did and do it legally, if you don't want to follow the law here get out. good riddance YOU ARE UNWELCOME. We are sick of ilegal aliens mooching and sniveling with their hand out demanding more more more, screw off and get the hell out.
Given the point they claim they do the jobs other Americans wont do. You would think those jobs would become of greater value, respect, and pay if the choice to hire illegals wasn't available. Anyone who comes over illegally is only taking a job away and causing a business competor either take part in hiring an illegal or down size their employees just to stay in business. I can't see why granting amnesty to those who broke the law should be even given the rights to protest.
Our GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD ITSELF TO WALL STREET AND BOTH WALL STREET AND THE UNITED STATES ARE DEBTORS TO COMMUNIST CHINA. We cannot afford to subsidize every illegal family member, every Mother with a child who becomes an instant citizen, when 15 million Americans and residents are jobless, when our own people live in poverty. Yes! We always need exceptional highly skilled engineers and scientists, but not the indigent and desperate that we must endlessly financially support. Not semi-skilled labor that will take less wages, than our own people, who themselves will end up in the unemployment benefits line. Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to be connected to your Senator and Congressman and use the voting power of THE PEOPLE. Go to NUMBERSUSA AND JUDICIAL WATCH for more information about this catastrophe that could overwhelm this country in the coming months.
E-Verify is one of the most successful mechanisms to remove illegal workers, but as yet it is not mandatory. It costs nothing to use it and it has been demonized by every pro-illegal immigrant group, along with corrupt politicians and their financial clients in the business consortium's. E-Verify must be national, with no exclusions. THIS SHOULD BECOME THE No.1 PRIORITY FOR EVERY SMALL AND LARGE COMPANY, THAT KNOWINGLY HIRING A FOREIGN WORKERS CARRIES PENALTIES SUCH AS HARSH FINES AND PRISON SENTENCES. THERE SHOULD BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE?
As in Washington today, a team of intelligence operatives stated to Speaker Pelosi that a El Queda attack was imminent within the next 6 months. This is the time to enforce our borders with the National Guard fully armed and obviously apparent along the whole 2000 feet length. The majority of our State economies are broke--with California leading the pack. Arizona lawmakers realizing the main cause of their financial dilemma, the support of illegal workers and their families.
E-Verify is one of the most successful mechanisms to remove illegal workers, but as yet it is not mandatory. It costs nothing to use it and it has been demonized by every pro-illegal immigrant group, along with corrupt politicians and their financial clients in the business consortium's. E-Verify must be national, with no exclusions. THIS SHOULD BECOME THE No.1 PRIORITY FOR EVERY SMALL AND LARGE COMPANY, THAT KNOWINGLY HIRING A FOREIGN WORKERS CARRIES PENALTIES SUCH AS HARSH FINES AND PRISON SENTENCES. THERE S
How many of us know, that the controversial border fence is by law supposed to be--TWO SEPARATE--FENCES? Senator Obama voted for it. more than three years ago, but only 35 miles of double-layered fencing is in place and much of the remaining 360 miles of the border fencing is badly constructed--without real barriers. The Truth is the government is lying to us.
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Pub.L. 109-367) was enacted October 26, 2006 in the United States. The act allows for over 700 miles (1,100 km) of double-reinforced fence to be built along the border with Mexico across cities and deserts alike, in the U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in areas that have experienced illegal drug trafficking, human slavery, gun peddling, illegal immigration and the threat of terrorism. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California who was the originator of the double fence, has not seen this happen, nor the complete wall that is just open areas, with the old barbed wire strands
So why are taxpayers forced by pariah lawmakers to pay for education, health care and even now anticipating BILLIONS more dollars to enact a ominous Comprehensive Immigration Reform? We all know by now, that this is a very crafty way to pass another AMNESTY. These people who have entered this country without permission? Every time a new immigration enforcement is passed, the open border Liberal-Democrats-Republicans use their influence to water the law down.
I find it funny when the state they own cars, own businesses, and pay mortgages. YOUR ILLEGAL! How did you manage to pull that off! The facts remain buy having a business you reserve the right and elect to underbid, or work for less since you can choose when and if it is appropriate to pay taxes. Citizens can't choose that option. And if your talking about latino specifically, you openly admit you send money back to Mexico investing in retirement communities. You admit that could care less about America.
Hispanics voters sent Obama to the white house. All the negative rhetoric by the republicans party helped democrats gain a majority on both houses. Now, Latinos gave Obama's party control of the senate, but since he failed to deliver on the immigration issue, we took that majority away from democrats. If you don't believe me look at the results in Massachusetts. Almost 80% of the Hispanic vote went to Brown a republican. So my dear air head blond, "we don't need to complain, we will just go to the polls".---------------------------------------
Are Hispanics more conservative than we thought?
By John A. Tures
Associate Professor of Political Science
LaGrange College
February 1, 2010 —
In my last column “Did Hispanics Catapult Brown Into The U.S. Senate?” I revealed evidence from a Politico/InsiderAdvantage poll that Republican Scott Brown won 76.9% of the Hispanic vote in a pre-election survey that did a better job of forecasting the race than most national and local po
Will the politicians that we elect ever carry out the interests of the American people? I read today on the AMERICAN PATROL website that President Obama is in a discussion to cap government money such as cutting back on NASA appropriations the sending men back to the moon in 1020? Yet we are still spending--BILLIONS--on illegal immigrants who have managed to settle here? If we cannot afford to go back to the moon, how can we afford to pay for illegal immigration? Obama can find billions to Prop-up States like Sanctuary California to pay for illegal immigrants, but he cannot find the cash to pay for space exploration. How can we allow millions of poor people to continue to cross our borders?
You could actually tear down the fencing borders and create jobs employing mass border patrol officers to drive around the country arresting and imposing heavy fines on anyone hiring illegals. Simple. But the corporate greed and wealth choose to look the other way.
Undocumented Workers 11,200,000
2009 population from 1 to 10
New York, N.Y. 8,363,710
Los Angeles, Calif. 3,833,995
Chicago, Ill. 2,853,114
Houston, Tex. 2,242,193
Philadelphia, Pa. 1,567,924
Phoenix, Ariz. 1,447,395
San Diego, Calif. 1,351,305
Dallas, Tex. 1,279,910
San Diego 1,279,329
San Jose, Calif. 948,279
That means that if the same quantity of people that has New York and Chicago
Just imagine our county with out people in New York and Chicago, How expensive is going to be that? lets fix the problem and the problem is based on the way that the imigration rules! if the visa gap could be larger for family members and if we could have a real temporay workers program like in europe, the people that come to this country illegaly are going to come legally and paying some amount of money for that permit. we just have to do it right in that case we could have some benefit
U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez and Tony Herrera are bad snake oil vendors. They want President Obama and the rest of us to think that if amnesty for illegals is passed, there will be a stampede by illegals to become U.S. citizens! Anybody who believes that, please contact me. I have a nice bridge I am trying to sell for years.
Illegal aliens come here for better wages and to enjoy the social services that U.S. taxpayers provide. They hope to make enough money someday to be financially comfortable when they go back to their country. They love their native land and they have no desire to become U.S. citizens. The proof is that they don't try to learn English and assimilate in American society.
I am fluent in Spanish and I have asked several illegals if they want to be U.S. citizens. The answer is: "What for? I can go to my country any time I want and I have here everything I need. Too much trouble to become a U.S. citizen."
China has more than 14 billion ,America ? people?
Chris King
All Immigrants are Brown?
Even the many Irish Immigrants?
Wake up, the U.S. Census Bureau already came out and commented that the new employer Sanctions laws, have stalled the take overe of minorities to the Majority has been stalled for approx: 10 years. (This is an admission of Ethnic Cleasing!)
Perhaps your Color is next?
Illegal immigration in the United States is at epidemic levels bringing with it crime, gangs, drugs, diseases, and over crowding to our land. The largest majority of illegal aliens are hispanic in origin (WE ALL KNOW THAT), and most of those are Mexican in origin (WE ALL KNOW THAT). It is time that We The People, the Citizens of the U.S. stand up with a loud voice and say, "NO MORE ILLEGAL ALIENS, NO MORE AMNESTIES, NO MORE SANCTUARY CITIES FOR ILLEGAL HISPANIC ALIEN CRIMINALS!!! The United States has become overcrowded, and we do NOT owe illegal aliens anything!!! If I broke into Mexico, would they give me this, and give me that???!!!! I think not. Immigration to the U.S. should ONLY be through and by the rule of law!!!!!!! Enough is enough!!!!!! DOWN WITH ALL AMNESTIES!!!!!!!! Contact www.fairus.org, Numbers USA, and WeHireAliens.com, and join our fight!!!
Highlander- Well said. Besides those dot-coms,there may be web sites for the US Senators and Representatives. Let your Reps and Senators know what you think!
David Nichols - I am not worried for I am a law bidding citizen, and more than willing to pay the consequences for breaking any laws. Can you say the same?
We sure do not make them citizens when the first thing they b1tch about is that they have to wait 5 years for Medicaid. We do not need more mouths for thew taxpayers to feed. We need people that plan to work and take care of their own. The minimum of a High School education should be required for citizenship. Send us your smart immigrants not just the ones that their own countries don't want to take care of.
Here is a free website that will hook you up with your Senators and the Whitehouse. It is easy, fast and gets results.
www.numbersusa.com
Highlander56:
The USA is not overcrowded, India is. Illegal Immigration is at an all time high here because LEGAL Immigration in this country is broken. People have to wait 10+ years to get a greencard through employment and 20+ years through family based categories. People trying to immigrate here through your Rule of Law get pushed aside because of people like you who have no clue how the immigration system even works.
Mr Smith- Take a trip to SoCal & see if we're overcrowded.
Guys, take your e-verify and your fence and stick it where the sun don't shine. You commoners are too ignorant to understand the reason why undocumented citizens are allowed to come into this country. All you yokels do is listen to the talking heads on the radio and on Fox news. Then you go on message boards and make a fool of yourselves. Grow up and get with the program.
Hey dumb ass, China does not have 14 billion people, it has a little less then 7. 90% of all people coming into this country now are coming here for financial gain only unlike my family whom came here for freedom. And when new immigrants don't make their financial gain the first year what do they do, they call white people racist. Sorry but in this year's election the voter's are going to speak Republican and the deportations will continue.
I want amnesia now for me. I wait no more. No amesia for me until Juy I mo go home.I give americanos one more chance then me go home.
pepe- LOL, that was funny. Undocumented "citizens are allowed to flood into the former US to make 3rd
Geromimo Huerta got it right. Take that e-verify and border fence and stick up yours. And I will tell you something else, IF THIS IMMIGRATION REFORM DOES NOT PASS I WILL GO HOME ALL RIGHT but I'LL MAKE SURE any americans in my homeland will get A FOOT UP THEIRS TOO.
I demmand this articulo be translated to spanol. I do not peak le inglich. I wanna articulo en spanol two.
Has any thought about what kind of parents bre
Promises, promises. I for one, don't believe any illegals will go home voluntarily. The undocumented "citizens" are allowed to flood the former US to bring it down to a 3rd-world level. Besides that, there is the tactic known as Divide and Conquer, the easier for the MoneyPower to rule.
I want amnesia now for me. I wait no more. No amesia for me until Juy I mo go home.I give americanos one more chance then me go home.
Congress has turned this into a very ugly mess as they refused to honor their oath of office and enforce the law. The consequences will be that the illegal aliens will cost a huge amount of money to deport, but a far, far greater amount if we allow them to remain.
And while they say they are going home, some are, ... most are not I think. But clearly.. clearly.. the cost of the amnesty for the illegal aliens to the taxpayer is absolutely not acceptable. They must be deported and the sooner they do that, the sooner we can embark on some sort of healing process.
Brazil had given amnesty in July 2009 to all illegal immigrants who got in the country till Feb 2009, 200,000 were estimated. We, Brazilians, welcome anyone who goes there.
Stealing jobs from american citizens? Hmmm, I do not think so. Americans will to work without capacity. Some hardly have finished high school. Others do not wish to work in sub-jobs, like cleaning bathrooms, floors, restaurants, and bla bla bla.
Independently of anything, Obama has to fulfill his promise to those 12 million people. He tries to help the economy by creating jobs (creating just by lending money to banks as a way to incentive creations of small businesses?). We are TIRED to know how much aid it would be attributed into the economy by simply legalizing those illegal ones. Calculate $ 2,000 (fine)X 12 million = 24 billion dollars just in fines, regardless the unpaid taxes the illegal would have to pay. How many jobs would that create? It'd even arise the number of loans taken by illegals. ETC ETC...
any comment about my comment can sent to chris27usa@hotmail.com
LET'S MARCH TO WASHINGTON D.C. FOR OUR RIGHTS!!!
Stop the hatred! Millions of hard-working immigrants deserve a shot at the American dream! This is disgusting. And, make no mistake about it, a comprehensive immigration reform is a matter of when, not if! And it is the just thing to do! Racism ALWAYS loses in America!
It is sad, the "illegals" are caught between a rock and a hard place. What can they do? They can't vote or have their 12M voices heard. If the legal Mexicans and voting family members of these illegals did vote, what would they do? Vote out the spineless Dems and let in more of the racist GOPs. Like they will ever pass any kind of CIR. Alas, the CIR carrot goes on dangled in front of the masses.
Kimberly, I'm dismayed by your description of NumbersUSA As "committed to legal immigration," when their quote says they want a suspension of the immigration of foreign workers. That wasn't too hard to miss. The less legal immigration, the more illegal that will occurr. And, as a reminder, all candidates that ran as hard-liners against immigration lost. As a person that immigrated legally to the country with my family, I experienced first hand the extremely difficult, and almost impossible process that was obtaining all the necessary paperwork. Might I add, this process took almost half of my life. Until we reform the process of legally coming to this country, people will continue to do so illegally. I hope that Democrats do push for immigration reform, because Latinos will stay home if they waver.
All Illegal Aliens need to come to America LEGALLY. What do you not understand about ILLEGAL. If you come legal then all Americans will welcome you. If you choose to break our laws and steal our identities then we do not welcome you. Americans will do the jobs you do. Ice raided a large meat packing company and the next day there were lines of Americans to do the job. The companies like this like to pay slave wages- if they have to pay Americans then they have to go by the laws here. I am sick of taxes going up because I am paying for your education, social security, health care and all the rest of the social services. Just how long do you think it will be until we are like Mexico with only the rich and the poor. Illegal aliens are bankrupting America and are costing up more than they bring in. We are only getting uneducated people that Mexico does not even want. We support them, feed them and give them health care. Come in Legal and we welcome you! Health checked etc.
Go to website numbersusa.com GREAT WEBSITE, LOTZ OF great information and the truth!!!!! We will be a third world country if we allow everyone to come here illegally. Our social service's cannot handle it. Join numbersusa.com for great emails to send. My maiden name was Garcia and my mother and husband are from Europe. They all came in legally and were very proud to become Americans. If you choose to come illegal and not learn our culture or language there is no place for you in America. I am an Hispanic American. My husband and Mother both worked hard to become Americans and learn the language and culture. Being American is not a right it is an Honor Please, do not degrade my Country. If you want to be here then come in legally. Thank you . . .
President Barack Obama
Sen. Richard Shelby
Sen. Jeff Sessions
Rep. Parker Griffith
As evidenced by the recent bribes for the health votes and many other immoral acts by legislators of both parties, the moral fiber of America is in a deep decline. We need desperately to reverse that trend. Turning a blind eye to the travesty of the flood of illegal aliens that continue to enter America unacceptable. This is a legal issue, not a moral issue. We must return to being a nation of law abiding people. It is incumbent upon our elected officials to d our sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land.
USA USA USA ILLEGALS GO HOME USA USA USA
I am a permanent resident who came to this country legally many, many years ago. The immigration law is horrible in this, so called, "country of immigrants". I spent almost $10000 for the whole process and waited few years to actually get the card. This is the reason why people either come to this country illegally or become illegal because some of the visas do not allow them to work, while their husbands or wives are working. Do you people think that young man will seat at home and live on his wife's salary? Maybe American man would do that, but I doubt it. If you don't reform the immigration law the problem will get worse. Yes, the illegal immigration is wrong and should be stopped, but the only way to do that is to change the law that forces people to come here illegally or become illegal. The borders needs to be strengthen too. The people who are already here for years should be legalized. Separating families is just wrong. Aren't you Christians? Would Jesus behave like devil?
We need to reform the immigration law and the sooner we do that the better. Illegal immigration should not continue, but in order to stop it we need to change the law. I am surprised that people in this country can't see that. It is our fault that we let the problem continue for years. When economy was good we used those poor people to do the most horrible jobs while paying them almost nothing. Now, when economy is bad we blame immigrants for everything. How is really evil here? We have to wake up and give those people papers, so they can contribute to economy. They are not going anywhere. They have families here, have been living here for years, so I think that it is immoral and unethical to chase the throughout this country. People whose wives or husbands are citizens or have green cards should be legalized first, we can't separate families!!!! Then the rest of the people who have no criminal record. Spain had amnesty in 2005, because they are smart and realistic, unlike us...
Illegal Aliens knew when they came here that they were illegally entering our country. If they chose that and had babies, on our dime, then the entire family needs to go back to where ever they came from. If they want to leave their baby then that is fine, there are plenty of homes. They broke our laws, what is so hard to understand. Many are using Americans Social Security numbers. I would be thrown in Federal jail for that. Illegals are fully aware of the consequenses of tresspasing our border and coming in illegaly. There are much poorer countries than Mexico. Why don't we let everyone in from all the countries without papers. These people have not been criminal checked or health checked. Think of the diseases they could bring in. NO, I am not for any sort of Amnesty for law breakers. Sorry, but I have to go to the doctor but my insurance does not cover what i need. If I said I was an Illegal Alien, I would get full health care benefits. I've seen this with my own eyes.
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