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To: BackSlidenDemocrat
The fact of the matter is you don't have heated discussions about legal immigration,only illegal.Right now there are immigrants waiting to come to this country,and they are going about it the legal way.The illegal immigration is doing a major disservice to the people who come here legally.Why should the United States give preference to the people who break the laws to get here.What you come across as saying is that we are anti immigrant,when that is not the way it is at all,no we are not anti immigration,we as Americans have laws to abide by,and if people want to come to this country they have to abide by those laws too.

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Yes, immigrants are still welcomed here,and they must go through the same process as those who came before them.

165 posted on 01/12/2004 4:33:58 AM PST by tapatio (I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations)
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To: tapatio

No....I am not trying to label you as anti-immigration. I believe that you can make as many laws as you like, but the ability to enforce those laws can dictate whether or not the law is a good law or just another law that is not enforced. We have tons of those laws dealing with gun control but how many of those laws are good laws that help stop gun violence. Immigration laws are simular. Make all the laws you want. They are coming...legal or illegal, and we Americans will one day have to figure out what to do with them. You know I often wonder what Native Americans laws if any we broke by immigrating here to their land hundreds of years ago? Could this only be fate or destiny that our borders are being overrun by illegal immigration when our whole nation was started in a race of immigration absence of laws any white european would recognize as just?

CW


170 posted on 06/01/2004 10:47:13 PM PDT by BackSlidenDemocrat (I'm not the Troll you once thought I was and read some more of my posts before you call me stupid.)
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