Posted on 01/29/2006 8:53:34 AM PST by Brian Mosely
Via Instapundit:
Almost two-thirds of Americans (63%) consider illegal immigration a “very serious” or “extremely serious” problem in the United States, according to a TIME Poll. The majority (74%) believes the U.S. is not doing enough to secure its borders. . . .
TIME’s Poll shows that half (50%) of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries (45% oppose). Three-in-four (76%) favor allowing illegal immigrants in the U.S. to earn citizenship if they learn English, have a job and pay taxes. . . . Meanwhile 700,000 undocumented immigrants from around the world continue to enter the U.S. each year, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
Are you saying that US citizens, just because of parentage, shouldn't have the right to reside here?
Sure it will!
Keep the faith!
Sources, please.
"Can't we start doing regular seismic readings for underground tunnels on the border?"
About 1 kiloton be enough?
I'm glad you are such an expert on the law.
You have been brainwashed by these liberal mouthpieces who get on tv and spout their pro-Vincente Fox claptrap day in and day out.
Local law enforcment doesn't have any power to enforce immigration laws. Nonsense.
A US Border Patrol agent once told me that if, on the local level, the mayors would invite them back into the cities, they could do their job there and enforce the federal immigration laws.
Local LE can enforce trespassing, but to what extent are they willing to go? I'd imagine it varies from city to city.
We do have a problem, now don't we? The baby is a US Citizen, and the Mother is the Legal Guardian, but is NOT a US Citizen.
What makes you think there is a law that says the Illegal Guardian Mother is entitled to STAY here, just because she birthed a child? I can't find one.
sw
I know President Bush's administration has been taking a more active role than some of the administrations previous, but in the 1950s-1970s it was very common for businesses to be checked for illegal workers (immigration raids) Raids have recently been stepped up, but are still infrequent compared to the past.
I'll tell you where I have been, I have been living on the border for the past 35 years.
I'll also tell you I am not one that blames Bush for all the problems on the border. As far as I am concerned the Carter Administration made changes that led to the mess we now have with illegal immigration and every President since Carter has either ignored the problem, added to the problem, or not done enough to solve the problem. I count Bush as one who has not done enough to solve the problem, not the cause. I also think in some ways Bush has added to the problem with his attitude towards Mexico.
I wan't talking about probable-cause raids that result from a lead. Of course that's been going on for years. That only nets a small percentage of the illegals.
I specifically mentioned "radom" raids where there is no probable cause.
So what do you propose? Telling the mother to get lost and putting the us citizen baby in foster care? Don't you think that would cost more?
I'm not claiming to be an expert. Have you ever been ticketed for speeding by a local PO on a state highway?
Send both of their asses packing back across the border.
Immigration is a critical issue and one that every candidate for office must address if he/she has any hope of winning an election. It is "critical" because it will soon determine whether our Western culture-based country will survive or be driven to extinction.
Okay... and how much tax payer money would it take to foster the child vs. residing with the illegal alien?
Read the following and educate yourself, although I suspect from your posts, you are an Illegal Sympathizer. At least you come on like one.
Fear, Uncertainty Complicate Lives of Families with U.S.-Citizen Kids and Illegal-Immigrant
By David Crary, Associated Press Newswires, Dateline San Diego, June 13, 2004
This long feature story examines the plights of illegal immigrants who have children, who, by virtue of being born in the United States are U.S. citizens.
Crary writes: "Researchers at the Washington-based Urban Institute estimate there are about 3 million children with U.S. citizenship and undocumented parents. Many such children -- though no official figures exist -- are forced to leave along with their parents as a result of federal enforcement efforts which result in roughly 15,000 deportations of illegal immigrants each month."
Waivers to deportation orders are possible, but scarce. Crary writes: "The government has placed an annual cap of 4,000 on such waivers, and limits them to illegal immigrants who have been in the United States at least 10 years and can demonstrate that deportation would impose 'exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" on a child or other close relative who is a U.S. citizen."
Tanya Broder, an attorney with the Law Center's Oakland Office, is quoted as saying many illegal immigrant parents of U.S. citizen children fail to take advantage of U.S. health care services and other benefits their children are entitled to because they fear deportation.
Bill Strassberger, spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration, is quoted as saying: "You've got to feel for the families going through this. But, harsh as it may sound, you can trace the source of the problem to the parents' decision to come to the United States illegally. They had to know it was a dilemma they could face in the future."
What part of send their asses back to Mexico before the sun sets do you not understand?
But if the child can find a legal guardian will be allowed to stay.
So conservatives are against legal US citizens living with their illegal parents? Doesn't that go against the conservative philosophy?
sw
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