Posted on 06/19/2012 1:46:18 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
(snip) Another issue that had come to the fore began to hurt us as well. I was troubled when the Arizona legislature passed an immigration bill that allowed law-enforcement officers to demand proof of legal residence from anyone they had lawfully detained and suspected of being in the country illegally. I thought the law would lead to racial profiling. As I started to hear more about Arizona’s illegal-immigration problem, I recognized that Arizona’s situation was different and more severe than Florida’s. Florida doesn’t share a porous border with a neighboring country. It’s surrounded by ocean. We certainly have an illegal-immigration problem, but it is mostly caused by people overstaying their visas.
(snip) when I hear some people accuse immigrants of destroying the American economy and culture and stealing jobs from American citizens, it stirs my anger, too. I can’t stand to hear immigrants described in terms more appropriate to a plague of locusts than human beings. And although I believe they are a small minority, I begin to wonder if some of the people who speak so disparagingly about immigrants would be just as worked up if most of them were coming from Canada.
I understand it is a difficult issue. It’s a law-and-order issue. But it’s also an issue about human dignity and common decency. And when we lose sight of either aspect of the issue, we harm ourselves as well as the people who wish to live here. Many people who come here illegally are doing exactly what we would do if we lived in a country where we couldn’t feed our families.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
An American hispanic friend once told that he doesn’t buy the deportation panic. He’s an American citizen who left a trail through life than can be easily confirmed.
He knew where and when his parents became citizens, where he was born, where he went to school, jobs he had had.
The open borders/amnesty pushers are shameless in the ridiculous scenarios them will make up to try and prevent reasonable legal status checks and reasonable voter ID. Anyone has a long trail of documents to prove their US citizenship or legal status. If there weren't so many trying to benefit politically and otherwise from these fraudulent claims, they'd be laughed off the stage by reasonable people.
Another classic was McCain's statement that he wasn't going to deport the illegal mother of a serviceman serving in Iraq. Oh, yeah, I'm sure there are tens of thousands who fit that category.
It's all pathetic and very damaging to the US.
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