The amnesty types like to create the distinction between "criminal illegal aliens" [an estimated 2 million] and "lawful illegal aliens." They draw this distinction so they can give the 10 to 20 million illegal aliens amnesty, i.e., allow them to stay and work here.
The reality is that existing immigration law requires that all illegal aliens be deported. They are all criminals in terms of breaking our laws including entering illegally, working illegally, identity theft, failure to pay taxes, etc.
The open border, amnesty types media have hijacked the language surrounding the immigration issue to the point that we had Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security and our nation’s top immigration official at the time, testifying before Congress using the term “undocumented workers” to describe illegal aliens. John McCain and Barack Obama studiously avoided the term “amnesty” to describe their comprehensive immigration reform plans and despite the evidence, baldly declared that it was not an amnesty. Instead, they used such euphemisms as “getting to the back of the line,” “an earned path to citizenship,” and “coming out of the shadows.” The Democrats and pro-amnesty crowd know full well that the American people are against amnesty, hence the avoidance of the “A” word.
How to dilute a strong problem:
illegal alien - illegal immigrant - undocumented immigrant - unauthorized immigrant - unauthorized worker
Using wordplay to delude the ignorant masses
RE: The amnesty types like to create the distinction between “criminal illegal aliens” [an estimated 2 million] and “lawful illegal aliens.” They draw this distinction so they can give the 10 to 20 million illegal aliens amnesty, i.e., allow them to stay and work here.
AHA, that’s where I TOTALLY AGREE with you. I wish people would be as thoughtful as you in this thread ( unfortunately, many are not... they rant on and on and put motives into me and the others as if they could read their minds ). Mentioning things like La Raza and Reconquista ( as it these Pastors support these crazy groups ) is tarring and feathering people without trying to understand what they really want.
You post is really the crux of the matter. I would tell these pastors to revisit STEP 3 of their declaration because they seem to want to nuance criminal and non-criminal illegals in this country.
The fact is both are breaking the law and need to be deported.
Having said that, I am still in favor of an orderly, controlled temporary worker program much like they have in countries like Singapore and Hongkong.