Posted on 02/09/2013 6:21:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
So for a little bit of a fee, they can stay here, ahead of the line and after committing multiple crimes, living like a regular American until they receive their citizenship—which we know won’t be long at all.
Disgusting.
Until the borders are secure, all the talk is a waste of time.
What's good for Americans?
Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay and work here is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty. The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty would be $2.6 trillion just for increased entitlement program costs. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.
Citizenship is really not the issue. Conferring rights and privileges upon illegal aliens has a corrosive effect on the Rule of Law, the very foundation of our Republic. It is also a slap in the face to legal immigrants who have followed the rules and obeyed the laws. There are over four million intending immigrants waiting their turn overseas to enter the U.S. legally. They have done the requiremed paperwork, background checks, physicals, and paid their fees. When you reward something you get more of it.
Trumka is working to HIRE them and make them union members.
THAT way, when brought before a magistrate or judge, they can say, "Yes your honor .. with the _______________ at 22 bucks an hour"
Oh .. well ... in THAT case, I fine you $5,000. Go and sin no more"
Our current legal immigration system does not import talented skilled people. Most of the 1.2 million legal immigrants who enter this country annually are unskilled, uneducated, and poor. We are importing poverty, which is why 56% of immigrant-headed households with children tare on welfare. 25% of adult legal immigrants lack even a high school degree. Each year we are importing hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts.
This should be the deal. We will give illegals a green card, but they will have no voting privileges in the U.S. because they broke the law by sneaking into the country. They are felons, living here under false pretenses, ofter guilty of identity theft and accessing social services that are forbidden to illegals.
Voting is not a constitutional right. States do not have to let felons or the mentally ill cast ballots, even though in some states, these groups are Democrat base voters.
RE: but they will have no voting privileges in the U.S.
At this point in time, I am not even sure that non-citizens aren’t voting in our elections. Remember this — there many places where showing one’s identification is not required ( mine for instance ).
Why should we even consider giving illegals green cards?
No court would ever uphold two different classes of Legal Permanent Residents (green card holders.) They pay taxes, have SS numbers, qualify for welfare programs, are eligible for the draft, etc.
But the larger question is why would you reward them with the objective of their crime, i.e., to stay and work here? This is amnesty pure and simple whether they can vote or not. And they will be joined by their families thru chain migration, i.e., family reunification. Once they get their green cards, are you going to prevent them from being joined by their wives and children or aged parents?
Words have meanings. The Democrats and the mainstream media have hijacked the language surrounding the immigration issue to the point that we had Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security and our nations top immigration official at the time, testifying before Congress using the term undocumented workers to describe illegal aliens. John McCain and Barack Obama studiously avoided the term amnesty to describe their comprehensive immigration reform plans and despite the evidence, baldly declared that it was not an amnesty. Instead, they used such euphemisms as getting to the back of the line, an earned path to citizenship, and coming out of the shadows. The Democrats and pro-amnesty crowd know full well that the American people are against amnesty, hence the avoidance of the A word. Republicans need to develop their own immigration lexicon that cuts through this Orwellian use of language
I like Rush’s idea- no immigrants are allowed to vote for 18 years.
It is not like they have ‘skin in the game’ anyway.
The process is likely to be in the range of 10 years, I say in the range because we have not nailed this down,
Then they can wait in their home countries.
C’mon, Rubio,,,stand up to these jerkwads...
Yeh, border enforcement right after Obama has just announced they are cutting back on border security. Gee I wonder how thats going to work?
Exactly!...or at least it should be, but in the wacko world of lib-think..... “fairness” is the watchword no matter how bad it hurts the country....They want equal numbers of rapists...robbers....handicapped....queers and God knows what else....it's all about making themselves “feel good”....... the selfish ba$tards
These fence jumpers should be finger printed and DNA samples. Collected and sent back to where they came from along with any kids they illegally created here and NEVER be allowed to return.
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