[Oldeconomybuyer]

[SkyDancer]

Make illegals pass the test first ...... then leave and come back legally.

[Steve_Seattle]

Ted Rall - the oldest living ape.

[PATRIOT1876]

CORRECTION OF AN IGNORANT OPINION:

Opinion: Could the anti- immigrant ILLEGAL INVADER loudmouths TAX PAYING PATRIOTS pass a U.S. citizenship test?

[Mr. K]

You never hear them complain about TELEVISION news, which is dominated by liberals.

Only how ‘talk radio’ is dominated by conservatives.

[Veggie Todd]

I bet BamBam couldn’t pass it.

[GilesB]

I passed the U.S. Citizenship test....

I was born here. The US Constitution says that’s the only test I need to pass you moron, Ted Rall.

BTW Teddy Bear - Nobody has any objection to those immigrants who pass the U.S. Citizenship test, BECAUSE THEY ARE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!! LEGAL! Got it? LEGAL!

Do you, Ted, have any idea what the Constitution means? I’ll give you a hint: It means that NO MATTER WHAT THE MAJORITY WANTS, if it violates the Constitution, THEY CAN’T HAVE IT!!!!

[RginTN]

Could leftists pass a US citizenship test...I doubt it they have problems understanding the US Constitution

[headstamp 2]

“A new poll of likely California voters shows that a whopping 73% support granting citizenship to immigrants here illegally if they agreed to pay back taxes, pass a background check and learn the English language.”

Clue- They never will.

[Rusty0604]

That actually might be a good idea. The people left would be the productive kind that can hold down a job and pay for themselves.

[ozzymandus]

Fine with me.

[PATRIOT1876]

I propose that we take all the assets of EVERY illegal and send them to the Border. We can be very nice and allow them to keep the clothes they are wearing and give them $200 to restart their lives someplace else.

If Mexico doesn't like it, we can remind them that most illegals from most countries came here through their border with the US.

If they still don't like it, we take back Mexico in its entirety since we won it fair & square in the Mexican-American War that THEY started. Our government was too softhearted to keep it and we gave the part the is Mexico back to them.

I hear Leftist screeching about “fairness”. They should be very happy with this solution.

It would only be fair.

[PATRIOT1876]

It’s economic treason to allow even legal immigrants in when we have high unemployment of legal citizens.

It’s beyond ridiculous and very clearly TREASON to even suggest that we should allow ILLEGAL invaders into our country.

[PATRIOT1876]

*A new poll of likely California voters shows that a whopping 73% support granting citizenship to immigrants*

I bet that poll was taken in the barrio.

[Veggie Todd]

I just took an online Naturalization Self Test. I got 24 out of 25 correct. The one I missed was, I said Thomas Jefferson was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers. It was a guess because I couldn’t remember who the authors were.

[kaehurowing]

“Seems to me that immigration opponents ought to focus not on the people who are here and who should be grandfathered in, but on preventing future illegal immigration by lobbying Congress to build an impermeable border between the United States and Mexico.”

Already been there, tried that. Fact that government failed to comply with the law is why we are in this mess.

Which is why it has to be made clear that illegals not only are to be deported, but cannot legally be hired or given housing. We need to make them self-deport.

[Gay State Conservative]

In addition to answering questions I can claim 1) to be one of several generations of my family who,collectively,have paid millions of dollars in taxes...2) that I am one of a number of members of my family who have served honorably in the US Armed Forces...3) that I am,along with all of my relatives,one to have never been even *charged* with,let alone convicted of,a single crime....

I could go on regarding my right to be here and the ways that this country has benefited from my presence.

[Greysard]

The most serious problem here is not that people are cold-hearted. Most people aren't. Neither is the issue that illegals had to already commit a crime to remain in the country. That also can be worked out, as people can repent and sin no more. The real problem here is that most of those "immigrants" have no marketable skills. Even agriculture - something that CA used to have - is withering, literally, as there is no water in the state. There are too few manual labor jobs in the country, and those are already occupied by other immigrants (who walk around with leafblowers, for example.) The new batch of immigrants, if legally accepted, will have to turn to crime because there is nothing else for them to do. Plenty are doing that already, as the US industry uses fewer, but more skilled, employees, and automates positions of everyone else.

Sure, if an immigrant has skills in electronic assembly, nursing, biotech, or finances she perhaps can find a job. But that's what I'd expect from an immigrant from Sweden, not from Guatemala. Can they learn? No, most of them cannot. It is expensive, it requires certain physical qualities, certain business ethic, and it hinges on a pretty good command of English. As they are, most of newcomers from Central America are only able to work manual labor, preferrably in the fields. But that's what seasonal, migrant workers are for - and there are programs for those, as I recall. The workers don't need to winter in CA, paying $1000/mo for rent, if they can fly back to MX and live in their own home with their family.

[TigersEye]

Opinion: Could the anti-immigrant loudmouths pass a U.S. citizenship test?

Irrelevant demagoguery.

[pallis]

To answer the question: Yes. It isn’t difficult.

The real question should be: Can the open borders idiots pass a citizenship test, and the answer is no. Some might be able to, but the majority of them are mouth slobbering, screaming half-wits, and that is being generous.

Whether or not illegal invaders can pass a citizenship test is irrelevant. Send them home to pass citizenship tests in their own countries, all of which could use more good citizens.

[Starstruck]

I would bet that a higher percentage of conservative voters would pass than liberal voters. I don’t think I would be opposed to voters having to pass a citizenship test in order to vote except for the fact it would be unconstitutional. Maybe time for another amendment?