Republicans need compassionate plan on immigration

Chi. SunTimes ^ | 4/19/15 | Linda Chavez

[skeeter]

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[Paine in the Neck]

How 'bout a little compassion for the folks footing the bills, incurring the road carnage, suffering the crime, facing the loss of their nation to a crowd perfectly happy to live in a feudal system as long as the patrón is generous?

[dp0622]

To be honest, even Cruz said that’s not his intention. He just wont give them citizenship. There is not ONE republican calling for deportation. I think Ted’s offer is a great one. You get to stay in the greatest country on earth even though you get here illegally and cut the line in front of millions, and your kids get to be citizens.

[gusopol3]

Start here:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/prince-georges-naacp-opposes-schools-for-english-language-learners/2014/09/24/35591cfa-4359-11e4-b437-1a7368204804_story.html

[DaveyB]

I've got a compassionate plan. Immigrate here legally or stay out!

When it comes to compassionate emigration, there is a problem. So many Hollywood types said they would emigrate if W was reelected but apparently they stopped at the border. Oh the humanity!

[kabar]

You get to stay in the greatest country on earth even though you get here illegally and cut the line in front of millions, and your kids get to be citizens.

If that is truly the Cruz position, then he lost my vote. We need to enforce our laws period. The proponents of amnesty are wont to create the false choice between a blanket amnesty and mass deportation of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. In reality, we have other choices and alternatives that don’t reward people who have broken our laws with the right to stay and work here and an eventual path to citizenship. The 12 to 20 million illegal aliens did not enter this country overnight and they will not leave overnight. Attrition through enforcement works. We have empirical data from experiences in Georgia, Colorado, and Arizona proving that it does.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Linda Chavez is a long time member of The Cheap Labor Express. Pure propaganda designed to get you to give up your country and the rule of law.

The Cheap Labor Express will be funding many similar efforts by The Ministry Of Propaganda.

[boycott]

Here is my compassionate plan:

Stay home! Work out your own problems. We don’t want them here.

[Fungi]

There already is a plan, passionate or not, follow it.

[tennmountainman]

What about compassionate plans for legal Americans who have and will
continue to lose their jobs to illegals?

[kabar]

IMO we need a total hiatus similar to 1920 through 1965

There wasn't a hiatus per se. We just admitted enough immigrants that it was similar to replacement level for those who died or emigrated.

* Projections and graph courtesy Population Environment Balance, Sources: U.S. Census Bureau; Statistical Yearbook, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. Average 195,000 per year from 1921-1970.

Since 1990 we have admitted about 30 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS. In 1970 there were 9.7 million foreign born; today, it has quadrupled to 41 million. The 1965 Immigration Act changed the demographics of this country forever.

[LibFreeUSA]

First... CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!!... then we can discuss all the ‘compassion’ everyone wants

[Politicalkiddo]

Where’s the compassion for the thousands, if not millions, of Americans without jobs to support their families and feed their children? HMMM? All of these millions, who I might add, are the first responsibility of the United States Government.

[nopardons]

Linda Chavez has made it her ONLY agenda, in the past few years, to write about amnesty, amnesty, AMNESTY for ILLEGALS!
She’s a broken record and needs to just shut up and go away !

[Breto]

Lets just give the country to Mexico and be done with it. The friking GOP and DNC wont be happy until the Mexicans run it anyway. Its hopeless.

[Yosemitest]

It's SIMPLE.

SECURE THE BORDERS.
ENFORCE THE LAWS!
DEPORT THE ILLEGALS, INCLUDING THE ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF !

[kabar]

They are losing their jobs to legals and illegals. Comparing the number of immigrants working (ages 16 to 65) in the first quarter of 2000 to the number working in the first quarter of 2014 shows an increase of 5.7 million. In contrast, the number of working-age (16 to 65) natives holding a job was 127,000 fewer in the first quarter of 2000 than in the same quarter of 2014, even though the number of working-age natives overall increased by more than 16.8 million. This 16.8 million represented 66 percent of the overall growth in the working-age population.

Since the number of working-age natives grew, but the number working did not, the share of working-age natives holding a job declined significantly. The decline in the employment rate of natives began before the 2007 recession, falling from 73.7 percent in 2000 to 71 percent at the peak of last expansion in the first quarter of 2007. Or, put a different way, the employment rate for natives never returned to the 2000 level after the country went into recession in 2001. In the first quarter of this year the rate was an abysmal 66.4 percent.

[dp0622]

I would never lie to a fellow freeper. I was taken aback when he said it but he did. I will still vote for him.

[TomGuy]

It is not “compassion” to advocate breaking the law, coming here illegally, and rewarding same.

It is an atrocity to encourage young kids in Central America to travel alone through Mexico to get to the US. Notice the Media and politicians do not reveal the numbers that died trying. The Media and politicians only give the feel-good-ism stories.

[Mr. Jeeves]

We offer compassion and they break the rules.

Then they want more compassion, and we gullibly offer it...and they break the new rules.

The line must be drawn here.