Posted on 08/22/2005 8:04:06 AM PDT by bayourod
...Clearly, it is past time for Congress to fix this country's broken immigration system.
...Yet the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants come north in search of work and a better life for their families. They fill low-wage jobs shunned by Americans and help keep the economy humming. Immigration quotas are much too low for them to enter lawfully.
Congress needs to create a broader legal channel for such immigrants. Doing so would let law-enforcement agencies target their limited resources on stopping terrorists and other hardcore criminals at the border.
...Congress needs to work out the details -- so that security can be enhanced, the needs of the economy can be met, and the rule of law can be restored along the border.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Nope
Below is a link to documents and speeches by our founders on immigration.
Our founders were very concerned that the quantity of immigrants should be kept low enough to encourage assimilation.
http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/index.asp?category=7
We are seeing that problem with the new immigrants (legal and illegal) from Mexico.
Here is the link to Thomas Jefferson's 1787 "Notes on the State of Virginia"
RE: The number of its inhabitants?
http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/index.asp?document=37
[snip] "...Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason.
To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants.
They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another.
It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children.
In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.
I may appeal to experience, during the present contest, for a verification of these conjectures. But, if they be not certain in event, are they not possible, are they not probable?
Is it not safer to wait with patience 27 years and three months longer, for the attainment of any degree of population desired, or expected? May not our government be more homogeneous, more peaceable, more durable?
Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into France, what would be the condition of that kingdom? If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million of foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here..." ~ Thomas Jefferson
PING to my #3 post.
(The founding fathers speeches on immigration and the moral conditions of Citizenship)
You might want to bookmark that LINK.
Regards
SOTBS
Same old tired BS
That is the Buchanan Wall. It was a good idea then and a good idea now. Give credit where credit is due.
Deploying troops to the southern border would be a better idea.
Hey, have you found out how this stuff actually affects the hardworking immigrants since you wrote this post? Or are they still not important enough for you to lose sleep over?
Anytime we have "illegal aliens" from Mexico attempting to flag down people from street corners seeking work we have too damn many "illegal aliens".
Consider my self well off, travel all over the world and met interesting people some shot at me and I shot at some, what did I* do you ask, just your basic solider.
Now retired and living on a farm.
Life is great in this country if you know how to work it.
Closed the border now, establish elis island clearing centers, check for diseases, etc, biometrics and send the illegals back to country of origin.
Instead of a wall a canal from the gulf of mexico to the pacific, to aid in movement of war ships and commerce.
I would like to your list of solutions--the idea of a baby born of illegals in the US automatically becomes a US citizen.
the idea of a baby born of illegals in the US automatically becomes a US citizen must be rescinded.
we were talking about people who flip hamburgers. they dont put their lives on the line.
i think soldiers should be paid more. WAY more....
AMEN to that!!
I think we should not be so quick to say no IF (and this is a big IF) we can link it to REAL border security.
IE building an israel style fence along the all the borders for expanding the current temp worker program.
We can ensure the guest worker visas are NONconvertable.
Since we are having a discussion about immigration then lets have a DISUSSION!
Turn the tables so to speak.
Please someone tell me why we need a single illegal immigrant, and how it benefit's the USA. I am not being sarcastic I want the "undocumented worker" fan club to give me one reason why having illegal aliens residing in the USA is a good thing. Furthermore please advise me how rewarding people who broke the law to enter helps the USA's interests
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