Nobody has advocated amnesty. We are all human beings and should be judged as individuals.
Those people like Rush L, whom I mostly adore, have no idea what it’s like to have a family to feed and no way to provide. Any hard working person here, faced with starving children, would do the same.
I don’t agree with amnesty, would like Bush’s program, and also want to secure the border. Is that so bad? Why so much venom and hostility when speaking about other human beings.
If that were you, some of these posters were talking about, you would also find it creepy and think very poorly of the integrity of some of these posters.
If immigration is our party’s primary issue, we are doomed. There are many conservatives like myself, who feel it is morally wrong not to be compassionate. If you do feel strongly against it, try and express yourselves in a humane manner. Otherwise we all look bad.
Okay, don't call it amnesty but that's what it is. What else would you call not punishing millions of people that invaded our country?
Say want you want, I suppose, but legalizing illegals IS amnesty and that is what the president and the senate are advocating.
If you do feel strongly against it, try and express yourselves in a humane manner. Otherwise we all look bad.
The above statement from you in mind... advocates for the Z-Card, Gold card, whatever card that legalizes illegals should try and express themselves in an honest manner. Otherwise they all look bad.
This is a ridiculous lie. Did you even read as far as the second sentence of the article you posted to?
It’s difficult to be compassionate towards people who are trashing your property, harming your lifestock, running drugs and prostitutes, breaking into your home, bleeding the system for all they can get, gang-fighting in the streets, etc. I feel no compassion for these people at all. And maybe you should get a good look at all the video footage and pictures of these mexicans at the pro-immigration amnesty rallies. No sympathy here. Send them home NOW.
Some other FReeper posted the following observation before, but it seems to fit here as well:
The engraving on the headstone of Western Civilization will probably read: "We Didn't Want To Offend..."
Borders and immigration laws exist for reasons which are not contrary to morality and compassion.
Expecting others to provide for your starving children, continually increasing the number of starving children you produce but can't afford, and not properly raising the starving children you already have - through neglect, non-assimilation, poor moral examples - those are not characteristics of "good people".
I welcome Mexicans who want to become Americans, who don't take public handouts, who live by the laws, who take care of their kids. They're definitely "good people" and they add to America.
I spurn Mexicans who come here "yearning to eat free", who flout the laws, have ragamuffin kids who become criminals and who could care less about America. They're parasites and should be ejected along with their anchor babies.
I'm throwing the BS flag on your entire post. If you want increased immigration, make the case.
Most conservatives are past being guilted, because we've been guilted by experts...the left...for many years. Those who oppose W's plan have many honest and reasonable concerns. Address those, instead of questioning their motives.
For anyone with half a brain, the "venom and hostility" should be easy to understand...it's well stated in the title of another thread...Su Casa es Mi Casa. You're getting the reception you've earned. Stop whining about it.
As a side note...isn't it interesting how the left's revulsion regarding the mixing of politics and religion is limited to...say...those on the right like Jerry Falwell?