[gawd]

When you refuse to accept, embrace and reward foreign nationals for breaking the law, all sorts of labels come to mind.

it's not about rewarding them for breaking the law. it's a recognition that the law itself is inherently unjust. remember that until WW1 free immigration was the norm, except of course for Chinese immigrants (one of the early examples of racism in american immigration policy).

[DumpsterDiver]

it's a recognition that the law itself is inherently unjust. remember that until WW1 free immigration was the norm

Immigration laws have changed over the years. From approximately 1923 to 1965 immigration was practically stopped to allow for the assimilation of earlier immigrants.

Remember, immigration is supposed to benefit the accepting country first and foremost. The benefits to the foreign nationals is secondary.

[txdoda]

remember that until WW1 free immigration was the norm, except of course for Chinese immigrants (one of the early examples of racism in american immigration policy).>>>>>>>

*Some* of your excuses had a liitle *merit* POST 9-11-01

9-11.....has changed US security laws for everyone, & our gov't should have started with the illegals in the country.

[JudgemAll]

it's a recognition that the law itself is inherently unjust.

The law is the law of the represented, and by this it is a just law. The law the illegals want is a law that does not represent us but is only aimed at looting us. It is so obvious.

[Penny]

<"the law itself is inherently unjust.">

Really? Why don't you come visit my neighborhood, one that used to be well-kept and peaceful? Now, in place of beauty and peace, broken beer bottles on my sidewalks, in my garden beds, loud music, ten people living in one house next door to me--bare-chested Mexicans who spit on my sidewalks and steal the pecans from under my tree and wake me up at 5:30am with their loading their trucks with plumbing supplies and throw cigarette butts for me to sweep up, never once speaking a word of English--yes, come tell me why the law is inherently unjust.

We have laws for law-abiding citizens. Illegal aliens are usurping what legal citizens have paid for with their lives and property.

I can only assume one reason that you carry such empathy for law-breakers. Every nation has the right to set its border/immigration policies. If you don't like ours, find another country that will assume responsibility for you.

Penny

[Travelgirl]

Why don't you try to go to Mexico, work and send money back to the US?

[Clock King]

Red herring. How is the law unjust NOW? Not in the 1950's and the past?

[Amerigomag]

's not about rewarding them for breaking the law. it's a recognition that the law itself is inherently unjust. remember that until WW1 free immigration was the norm, except of course for Chinese immigrants (one of the early examples of racism in american immigration policy).

By your standards then I suspect that you also see private property rights as also inherently unjust.

Free immigration has never been the norm in the US. Immigration numbers have varied over time but there has always been a regulatory framework and never before in the history of the US has illegal immigration eclipsed regulated immigration.

Get your facts straight and then return to the fray.

[sfRummygirl]

Do you even live in an area with a hispanic neighborhood? Do you realise that the people who have been here for a few generations, and came here LEGALLY, want this to stop too?
You know, all I can say is thank GOD my Italian ancestors who came over to Ellis didn't gripe and play victim. If I was a whiny liberal, I probably could make a lawsuit, though. I bet one distant ancestor was even put in an internment camp or something...hhmmm...