Schwarzenegger Editorial Ping!
Posted on 03/29/2006 5:01:48 AM PST by PSUAdam
First, immigration is about our security. The first order of business for the federal government is to secure our borders. Washington must do a better job of it. We learned on 9/11 that not all who cross our borders want to share in the American dream. A few want to replace it with a nightmare. If we don't know who is coming over our borders, we won't know whatthey might do. And in a post-Sept. 11 world, that is a risk we cannot take. Congress must strengthen our borders.
That's why as governor, I have supported legislation to end human trafficking and stop issuance of driver's licenses to those who aren't legal residents. By bringing folks out of the shadows and into the light, we help immigrants, and we help America.
Criminalizing immigrants for coming here is a slogan, not a solution. Instead, I urge Congress to get tough on those illegal immigrants who are a danger to society. If an illegal immigrant commits a serious crime, he must leave the country — one strike and you're out. No excuses, no delays.
Second, immigration is about our economy. The freest nation in the world, and the freest economy in history, depend on a free flow of people. I support efforts to ensure that our businesses have the workers they need and that immigrants are treated with the respect they deserve. We should pass a common-sense temporary worker program so that every person in our nation is documented.
We can embrace the immigrant without endorsing illegal immigration. Granting citizenship to people who are here illegally is not just amnesty … it's anarchy. We are a country of immigrants, yes. But we are also a nation of laws. People who want to be citizens will want to do it the right way.
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The GOP are fools if they think this bunch of liberal democrat socialists would ever have the smarts to vote for Conservative Republicans they are no where even close to our philosophy. They are WELFARE poverty uneducated low wage "earners".
Sorry Arnold. That's pure, unadulterated bravo sierra.
The words you use to describe them tips your hand on this statement. We are not talking about immigrants...those people come through the legal process. We are talking about ILLEGAL ALIENS, and they have criminalized themselves. We MUST enforce our laws, or all your other fine words mean nothing.
To them...or to us.
So right.
Arnold was a legal "immigrant".
1. bust the employeers big time who hire illegals.
2. Cut social and economic assistance to illegals.
Result: They go back home.
A large fraction of American Hispanics oppose illegal immigration. Those that don't probably vote Democrat anyway. Bush is either a fool, or doesn't give a rip about the party that got him his job.
Well, we don't owe illegal immigrants anything. And what is owed to American citizens?
Above all, we owe it to our country and our immigrants to share our values. We should talk about our history, our institutions and our beliefs. We should assimilate immigrants into the mainstream. We want immigrants to not just live in America but to live as Americans.
Do Americans assimilate immigrants, or should immigrants assimilate? As far as I can tell the latter is the problem.
He's got #1 right, the rest needs some work.
The Dimorats get over 70% of the Mexican vote. What makes you think that the Rats will turn against one of their most dependable consistuencies?
Absolutely, bust employers who continue to hire illegal aliens and thumb their noses at hiring American workers - golly - that would mean giving jobs to American 'legal' citizens and paying them a fair wage.
Don't just 'cut' social and economic assistance to illegals - totally take those services away. Why should we as taxpayers continue to foot the bill for illegals.
johnsons3
The issue of a guest worker program is separate from the issue of illegal aliens. If illegal aliens take jobs from Americans (and they do) they take even more jobs from foreign nationals who apply by the legal route to work here and wait years for the chance. Illegal aliens steal that chance from them.
They are different groups of people, regardless of their country of origin, and the political issues that concern them are different in their effects and needs. Confusing the two may be lethal to our society, economy and sovereignty.
We already have a guest worker program, which may indeed need to be reformed. But illegal aliens are those who have not applied to be guest workers. There are 11 million of them by some estimates, 20 million by others. The only thing needing reform concerning illegal aliens is to enforce the existing laws respecting their presence and their employment here. Our sovereignty and rule-of-law demand it.
Border security is the number one problem in this debate. The flood of illegal aliens is a major factor in relation to our lack of border security but it is only one factor. There is also a matter of national security in a time of war and in an age when terrorists have set their sights on inflicting mass destruction on our society.
After the issues of border security and millions of illegal foreign nationals on our soil the matter of guest workers is very small in comparison. Until the first two problems are thoroughly and firmly addressed the guest worker issue should not even be discussed.
The President and the Senate need to get that message with unambiguous resolve.
The best methods to control the border have been studied and debated for a long time now. There are many good ideas and proven solutions. What is lacking is only the will to do it. The cost of controlling our borders will be insignificant compared to the price we will pay, both in security and economy, if we do not.
It would be nice to help everyone in the world lift themselves up out of poverty. But we cannot take that responsibility upon ourselves especially if we ignore our own welfare to the point that we are no longer prosperous.
Other nations of the world have an obligation to help their citizens every bit as much as we have to help ours. It is one thing to help other nations prosper it is quite another to relieve them of their own responsibilities. Beyond that it is simply not realistic to think that poverty can be ended around the world. We still have some in this great nation.
We must stop pandering to American employers who criminally employ illegal foreign nationals. Dry up the jobs and illegal foreign nationals will go home. Home where they can do what they must to put their houses in order just as we must put ours in order.
There is no compassion in filling a man's stomach or his pocketbook by relieving him of his responsibilities in life. Illegal aliens have abandoned their own house in order to be comfortable in ours. By so doing neither can be the master of his own house and both will be enemies in the street. This is our house, the U.S. of A., and it is our responsibility to set the rules in it.
40%? Try 22%. And since nearly hald of Hispanics favor cracking down on illegal immigrations, I think it's amazing that Republicans are running about 25% BEHIND cracking down on illegals in the polls.
That's a widely held belief that just makes me scratch my head. I would think if you're a Hispanic person you played by the rules and immigrated legally, you would deeply resent those who didn't wait their turn. You would further resent illegal aliens, because you, as a Hispanic who played by the rules, would have aspersions cast unfairly on you by everyone else.
I hate to say it but he is a fool who blindly follow what his puppetmmasters tell him. In defense, we were fortunate. That was the only area of his government where he let true conservatives (Rumseld, Rice) run things, so we were strong on defense. On nearly every other issue, he has leftists sh!theads calling the shots. I mean look at his cabinet, for cryin' out loud. All Ford, no Reagan.
His puppetmasters demand cheap labor, he's going to give it to them, the nation, the economy, the party and the voters be damned!
He seriously needs to snap out of it and wonder why he's got a Reagan-like economy and approval ratings like the deepest trenches of the Carter administration, but Karl Rove told him last year that the Republicans have no hope of winning in '08, so he's so stupid, he thinks that he's doing as well as could be expected.
My boss used to golf with him. His opinion was that Bush had a 2-digit IQ. I couldn't believe him. Now I do.
Finally, I'm impressed. He gets it on this issue.
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