Posted on 05/01/2007 12:02:21 PM PDT by bedolido
LOS ANGELES -- Demonstrators demanding a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants rallied around the nation Tuesday, hoping to spur Congress to act before the looming presidential primaries take over the political landscape.
From Phoenix to Detroit, hundreds of people carried American flags in the streets. Organizers say immigrants feel a sense of urgency to keep immigration reform from getting pushed to the back burner by the 2008 presidential elections.
"If we don't act, then both the Democratic and Republican parties can go back to their comfort zones and do nothing," said Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "They won't have the courage to resolve a major situation for millions of people."
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How's this for a path:
There is a path. Go home and choose the legal one.
I agree... please join the other thread. I have asked this thread be deleted or locked
I was going to suggest the same, but you beat me to it.
GMTA I was going to post that.
Are they not already citizens? Of Mexico? Perhaps that is where they should go to exercise rights of citizenship.
And take your litter with you!
The reporter failed to note that CHIRLA has allegedly collaborated with the Mexican government:
http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/CHIRLA.html
He also failed to note that another quote source - in addition to organizing rallies - is an official with a Mexican political party:
http://wiki.lonewacko.com/wiki/Jorge-Mujica
By the way, there has been a “Guestworker Program” for years now. If you ever go to amusment parks, dunkin donuts ans many other places like that you will see many foreignors working there. They are not the “normal foreignor”. What I mean is, they are from counties like Peru, Argentina, Thailand, Hong Kong, Central America and are here on a guestworker program. They work where they have been assigned for a specific period of time and then they return home. I think many Americans assume these people are immigrants but they are not. They are guestworkers and we have had guestworker programs for years.
http://www.workandtravelusa.net
The reason why I tell you that we’ve had a guestworker program for years is because there are those who claim “we need such a program”. We’ve had it for years.
Why this insistence on a “path to citizenship”?
As nearly as may be determined, these people ALREADY have citizenship. It is just in a different country.
Not everybody who comes to America necessarily wants to become an American. Some are just tourists, some are here only for the economic opportunities, and some are just passing through in their pilgrimage. Being an American is hard enough chore if you are born and raised here, why would anyone want to take on that burden as an adult?
This proposal comes dangerously close to FORCING these people to become citizens, with all the obligations and duties that implies. That may mean surrendering much that you may have considered to be unique in your history. Language, codes of morality to which you may subscribe, even common everyday courtesy to your neighbors.
Old feuds and unsettled differences leading to endless conflict with others around you may not be brought to America. Those things are treated as criminal behavior here.
Press One for bus pass south
Press Two for detention center meal card
Press Three for “Do the right thing and just leave”.
Yeh, so they carried American flags this time. That no more makes them American than me sleeping in my garage makes me a Chevrolet. Ship every last one of them OUT!!
There is a path to citizenship. It runs back through Mexico and the Consulate. It is not a particularely fast or wide path but it is a legitimate one for those seeking to be US Americans rather than seeking to push USAmericans out of America.
Oh!
You mean do it legally?
How cruel.
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