While I admire them for their quest, they need to come here legally and orderly. On the other hand, we need to overhaul the immigration system so that people from ALL the world who are hard-working and honorable get a fair shake and a timely review for their petition to become Americans.
But you can't just walk across the border and demand your rights. If you're here illegally, you have no rights, save for the right to humane deportation.
Vicente Fox will be greatly saddened, but he can't send all his workers here to mail money home. Mexico needs to fix itself. They have all the ingredients for success and prosperity. What about that, Vicente?
These Illegal advocates are pimping for something and I think what they will get isn’t what they want.
The new CW is coming and there are many more than 40 million Americans who are fed up with these thieves!
“On the other hand, we need to overhaul the immigration system so that people from ALL the world who are hard-working and honorable get a fair shake and a timely review for their petition to become Americans.”
Sounds nice on the surface, but how many??? There are easily two or three BILLION who would qualify under your criteria there. We can’t solve the problem of third world poverty with immigration to the US, but we can certainly turn large parts of the US into a third world nation.
We currently allow 950,000 legal immigrants each year, and around 100,000 refugees, PLUS, whatever small amnesty and increase in work visas are allowed in an given year. Some of the versions of the so-called ‘comprehensive’ reform bill would have allowed in four to five million per year.
We all need to stop talking in nice general terms and start talking numbers per year, or Congress will pass something that will cause a flood that will make the current situation look like nothing.