I am opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens, and believe the 1986 amnesty to be one of President Reagan’s biggest mistakes of his presidency. We should not reward people who break our laws and come here illegally by letting them cut in line for U.S. citizenship, particularly since it would create an incentive for more people to come here illegally in expectation for the next amnesty.
But here, depending on the final wording of the bill, we’d be talking about teenagers brought to the U.S. as children and educated at U.S. schools, and they’d be getting not U.S. citizenship, or even a path to U.S. citizenship, but the equivalent of a student visa that we hand out every year to just about any foreigner who is accepted into a U.S. college. I don’t think it’s such a big deal, and it would ut the heart out of an issue for the Democrats. So while I want to see the final wording (I wouldn’t want it to apply to 16-year-olds brought into the U.S.), it’s not something that should be rejected out of hand. It is not amnesty.
“we’d be talking about teenagers brought to the U.S. as children and educated at U.S. schools, and they’d be getting not U.S. citizenship, or even a path to U.S. citizenship, but the equivalent of a student visa that we hand out every year to just about any foreigner who is accepted into a U.S. college.”
By that logic, we should be giving the children of those who waited in line legally student visas not the children of the lawbreakers.
Think of how many people there are who followed the law, respected our borders, respected our Constitution, respected our sovereignty and their children AREN’T being rewarded with student visas.
Also, I don’t believe for one second that this isn’t just another attempt to get their crowbar into the door.
NAIVETY at the highest level to believe anything else.
Remember gays didn’t want special rights or to be married or access to schools, adopt children, donate blood...they just wanted to be left alone...where are we now with that?
Gay days, religious people silenced, threatened, or fired. Too many atrocities to list here.