I don’t disagree at all about the effect of these brazen, monumental lies. I can see it in my paycheck with the outrageous costs that are hurting me and my family.
But to wave a wand and say that millions of people - only a small fraction of whom are landscapers - deserve to occupy and benefit from the United States when they came here against the law knowingly?
Will such an amnesty extend to citizens on a wholesale basis? If not, why not? Why would foreign nationals have more rights then the citizenry?
There are tens of millions of people with petty crimes in their background, will they be the subjects of a general amnesty and/or expungement? And crossing into the US illegally is no petty crime. Have you ever been to Southern Arizona for example, seen the border, understood what it’s like to walk through the desert with armed men leading you, and carrying a backpack of pot or coke, something illegals are caught doing all the time?
It’s a serious thing and they know it. But being from lawless countries, they don’t care. It’s part of their culture.
But we don’t have to aid and abet that attitude. Nor do we want masses of people here inculcating that idea into our national culture, although it’s already happened to a great extent: the U.S. is far more like a Banana Republic then it ever used to be. It is no small part because of them...the illegals and their enablers.
The harm they have caused is the abolition of our nationhood, and the undermining of our national sovereignty by contempt for the borders that bound it.
Right on, my health care premiums have gone up 30% last year to comply with Obamacare requirements.
Amnesty is a very broad term. There are a thousand varieties of “amnesty”. I am of course totally against granting voting rights to any illegal immigrant, ever. There is a big difference between above amnesty and temporary work permits. I have no problem with non-violent criminals granted 2 year work permits....if those jobs are hard to fill by American citizens. That is exactly what they do in Singapore. Singapore is one of the most prosperous country now after coming out of British rule. Singapore has adopted very practical and sensible laws. There are 2 million foreign workers there doing jobs citizens do not particularly want. Singapore has zero food stamps, zero unemployment compensation. Prosperity is beyond belief. Their airport, hospitals, cruise terminal, underground highways etc make ours look like a third world country.