I met women in Amsterdam who went to prostitute so their Central American kids could eat. Does that make it right?
If they are illegal, why should their opinion matter, they are here illegally.
If they are here legally, well, when did being and staying in the United States without being a CITIZEN become an entitlement.
Illegal aliens are NOT immigrants.
What's wrong with the governments in Latin America, that it is so generally such a great place to be from?Bush is looking to promote democracy, we sure need it in Latin America so its people might stop the slow-motion invasion of the US.
If here illegally screw them put them on a leaky boat. If here legally, welcome and GOD bless now get a job, learn english stay off the public dole and stay the hell out of trouble or get on that leaky boat.
Cherry picking sob stories will not change the big picture realities. Cheap labor is NEVER cheap.
So, it's a "right" to continue doing something illegally?
RIGHT??? No one has a right to live in the US but natural born citizens or legalized immigrants. These squatters should have been deported decades ago. They had no right to take a job from a citizen and send the cash home to their relatives. They should be at home, improving their own pathetic countries. This is the 21st century, like it or not. America has no obligation to take in the third world just because they are too lazy or cowardly to change their own societies.
If she can't feed her children, she should not have any. Bank robbers also commit crimes to, among others, feed their children. This is no excuse to break our laws.
So these people have Temporary Protected Status? Okay- sounds like they are here properly- albeit temporarily.
It's the ones who invade without permission that need to be deported.
Bush's program would grant temporary work permits to millions of illegal workers for perhaps up to six years.
Spot the problem.
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If true she was eligible for amnesties offered in 1986, 1994, 2 in 1997, and 2 in 2000. Why didn't she take advantage of any of them?
I did a google search on the author of this article, Alfonso Chardy. Seems he has been quite busy in his pro-illegal immigration activism. Chardy is a La Raza leftist from Mexico City who was educated here in the U.S. under a scholarship from our State Department. This is our tax dollars at work, folks.
IOW, an ILLEGAL ALIEN.
Last time I checked, people who are here illegally have no squatter's rights or any other claim to stay here.
There is nothing to fear; you never had any rights to stay here; nor should we consider criminals like you as candidates for lawful immigration.
I personally know many Central Americans who came here for the reasons stated in this article, and they chose to play by US rules. They worked hard, saved money, and hired immigration lawyers to help them through the process of staying here legally. There are plenty of charity organizations that assisted them on how to go about the proper process, such as the Latin American Apostolate.
Between visas they had to travel back and forth to their home countries. Yes it was difficult and inconvenient, and it took a long time, but their consciences are clear. These weren't wealthy people in their home countries, either. They just decided to do the right thing, and then worked hard to reach their goal.
There is really no excuse to remain undocumented.
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