Illegals seek special status

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | April 29, 2006 | Editorial

[Graybeard58]

Red tape, low visa quotas and other bureaucratic delays keep about 4 million foreigners waiting up to 23 years to enter the United States legally, but Washington has sat on its hands while an estimated 12 million people south of the border got instant entry by ignoring U.S. immigration laws.

Now that they are here and in many cases have been for a number of years, most of the 12 million believe they are entitled to rights those who follow the legal path are hoping eventually to acquire. Polls show that a majority of the illegal migrants and their supporters blame racism for any withholding of the rights they claim. Further, they insist their illegal border crossing is not a crime.

The claim of "rights" and the staged protests hardly have been diplomatic in their expression and no doubt produced some backlash. Waving Mexican flags and displaying Mexican slogans was a turn-off for many Americans. Monday's national boycott asking workers to stay home and children to play hooky is not diplomacy at work. Claims of political power by noncitizens are hollow.

President Bush says it would be impractical to deport the 12 million illegals, and he may be right. But if special consideration is going to be accorded those who already are here and have proved they can handle low-paying, low-skilled jobs that supposedly "no one else wants," the government cannot ignore its obligation to those sweating out years, even decades, of waiting to be welcomed legally.

The list of aliens anxious to settle in this country includes scientists, academics and others with special skills and talents. Some have jobs awaiting them at American companies. Then there are the wives, sons, daughters, parents waiting to join a relative legally here. None of this seems to be a problem for the illegals.

America's immigration program is way out of kilter. The Mexican illegals do not deserve special treatment over those who are obeying the law and counting the years to enter the country. As one new American citizen put it, "It's not just a long process and a difficult process, it is a very costly process as well." It would be shameful to reward those who seek to circumvent the process by violating the law.

[stopem]

They are criminals in every sense of the word from the time they invade this country to their militant marches and threats to shut down this Country and their hate speeches.

[petkus]

Illegal Aliens are above the law of the USA & are have total contempt for our constitution!

[Cacique]

bump for later

[f150driver]

Their sense of entitlement is repulsive.

[Publius6961]

low visa quotas and other bureaucratic delays keep about 4 million foreigners waiting up to 23 years to enter the United States legally, but

There is no organized pressure group consisting of legal immigrants. So they have no voice.
Imagine that!

[Let's Roll]

The irony is that once they get their entitlement, no one will want them.

They are only wanted now because they work cheap - who needs them if they cost as much as American workers?

Everyone involved - illegals, employers, pols should all realize this, but you never hear it mentioned.

This is over and above that they are illegal, don't assimilate, don't value education (so there will be no improvement) etc.

No, I'm afraid it's time for them to go back home and overthrow the government that has always treated them like sh!t ... not remain here to bite the US hand that feeds them.

[sangoo]

llegal Aliens are above the law of the USA & are have total contempt for our constitution!

That's why some many politicians and our President like them so much.

[Bommer]

The NEW Republican Star Spangled Banner!

Jose can now see that it's all going to be alright
How proud these republicans, as they run away fleeing!
With their bold talk and no balls, they run from the fight
Over laws they helped made, now just feces steaming!
And the criminals don't care. Mexican flags wave in air!
No loyalty to us, just want their Medicare!
Say does this Republican party stand for anything or just caves?
For the land of the illegals, and the votes that they crave!

[wrathof59]

Wait until some wacko US district judge decrees that the illegals have the same rights to the public goodies, including Social Security, as American citizens.

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

My daughter's father-in-law is a 'legal' immigrant, yes he is from Mexico. He is an architect by trade and has for the past 12 years been jumping through all the hoops placed in front of him to gain his citizenship. He works as an auto-cad technician because he can't start the license process for architecture due to cost issues for 'foreigners'. It breaks my heart to see what he has gone through and now the rewards are being talked about for those that didn't play by the rules! AAARRGGGHHHH!

[spectre]

"The list of aliens anxious to settle in this country includes scientists, academics and others with special skills and talents. Some have jobs awaiting them at American companies. Then there are the wives, sons, daughters, parents waiting to join a relative legally here. None of this seems to be a problem for the illegals."

America's immigration program is way out of kilter.

Read it and weep..the cream of the crop are being shut out. This is insane.

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[AmericaOne]

You want to send a message to the RNC that they will hear loud and clear??? Then do the following:

Send them one of these instead of a donation, using the RNC's own postage paid return envelopes!!!

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The RNC will miss your money more than they will miss your vote!!!

If you do want to give financially to Republicans, give only to individual candidates/politicians who support or vote to secure our borders and don’t cater to illegals!!!

[Texas Eagle]

Their sense of entitlement is repulsive.

They act as if they are DemocRAT voters.

[jocon307]

"...who needs them if they cost as much as American workers?

Everyone involved - illegals, employers, pols should all realize this, but you never hear it mentioned."

RIGHT! This is what I've been saying forever. They are only cheap because they are illegal. A bazillion labor laws are being broken every single day.

[OKIEDOC]

I predict violence in the streets before this is over.

Already radical illegals are blaming anyone with white skin for all their problems.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, here's what I don't understand: why is it so flippin difficult ---- in some people's experience, it has been well-nigh impossible --- to enter, work, and get citizenship legally?

Stellar conservative journalist Mark Steyn has gone through a hellacious frustrating mess for years and years over citizenship, with the bureauctrats losing his documentation, refusing to return phone calls, and then threatening deportation because of missed deadlines which they themselves sabotaged.

Over at www.radioblogger.com, Christopher Hitchens has this to say:

"I shouldn't complain, but I mean, you try dealing with the Homeland Security Department. And I'm English, and I've lived here for a quarter of a century, and I have an American wife and three American children, and I own a house and a business, and have a lot of friends. And I only want to be a citizen ..... And I can't get my letters responded to. I can't get any action out of these people, and so what the hell it's like for someone who is legit, and from Guatemala, and doesn't have any contacts, I do not know. I'm sorry for such a personal reply, Hugh, but I mean..."

Hitchens quoted Tacitus ("Nothing human is alien to me") and then remarked sardonically that the unwritten motto of the ICE is "Nothing alien is human to me."

We had a Russian family in our church which has been plodding along, filing forms, paying thousands of $$ to immigration attorneys, to get their son into this country --- and he still isn't here. And this kind of story can be multiplied by the thousands.

This is a "chess game" in which big employers and big politicians have bent the law, penalized the law-abiding, incentivized lawbreaking, exploited the desperate, and parlayed profits for years. Again I say don't blame the pawns. Blame the kings.

[frannie]

Amen. I had decided that is just exactly what I am going to do. Pick and choose and next year try to be more active in the choosing of candidates in the primaries.

I had given, what I could, for over 60 years to the RNC but not one penny LAST YEAR and not one penny this year. I have given to my county Repub . party but again this year nothing to the RNC

[HumanitysEdge]

I would rather give all the young conservative Canadians who fled to the US citizenship. They speak Engish, are generally educated, came here because of high taxes and low employment in Canada ... and Canada is like our 51st State.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"Further, they insist their illegal border crossing is not a crime."

The US legal code says different.