Mr. Thompson - please let President Bush know and try and help him understand that his base - those of us who elected him to the ffice he now holds (twice) are 100% AGAINST any sort of amnesty for illegal immigrants!
What we want - what we DEMAND - is simple. Enforce the laws already "on the books". Enforce the border. Seal it up. (build the wall!) STOP illegal immigration as best as possible. After this - go ahead and try to come up with some sort of "solution" to the illegals already here. I say send them home and let them try to return LEGALLY as thousands have before them.
These people - no matter what their circumstances might be - must NOT be rewarded for breaking our immigration laws. It is a travesty to even consider it.
What will happen once these people attin legal status"? Do you and the Administration truly belive they will continue to do the "jobs Americans won't do"? Of course they will not. They will demand the same amount of pay that Americans demand for the same work and just like the Americans they will not be hired....leaving the employers to seek out new illegals to fill the empty spaces of those given amnesty.
I could go on and on about why this idea is so terrible but I will not. The only other thing I'll say is - NO to amnesty in any shape or form. (The RNC will not get a penny from me until it shapes up btw!)
Very thoughtful respectful post.
The RNC will not need you or me if this bill goes through.
They are banking on the 25% growth of Mexicans in the country and falling all over themselves trying to get these non-Americans as Americans and for us to pay the bills.
What about our ability to maintain the entitlement programs?
What about the survivability of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security?
What about raising up a class of people expecting free support for all their needs, no payment of taxes, no need to follow the law and another class of people under a different set of laws that are expected to pay for them to serve as cheaper labor (which is a fallacy because they too will be
earning minimum wage the minute the bill is signed).
How do you make a people, entering a country illegally with special rights to not follow the laws, follow the laws of the land?
And, we all know that the democrats will move to the next step to allow them more and more rights at our expense so that the democrats will have a socialized country dependent on government services more quickly.