Posted on 12/15/2002 10:28:30 AM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
Could have fooled me. Last time I saw the polls 80% of the public want our borders closed and illegals deported. Maybe this writer is looking at a poll I haven't seen.
it's one thing if he can pay for his education himself; it's quite another to ask taxpayers to pay it for him. a lot of deserving kids pay full price for college; these are not children of "privilege," but hard-working persons who work long hours to pay for schooling.
they, too, were "deserving." i don't believe in denying opportunity, but i am sick and tired of paying for everybody else's "mistakes."
We should save our sympathies and tax dollars for those who are here legally first, then try to help those like minors in the middle.
The other argument is that a bright, young Mexican national, fluent in English, familiar with American customs, ought to be able to do a lot of good for Mexico in boosting export earnings to the U.S. Why can't he? Could it be because El Presidente Fox is more interested in preserving the oligarchial status quo than in developing the middle class which Mexico needs to emerge from the third world?
Therefore, the U.S. should push their own citizens aside to make room for Mexicans too educated to be content with being a peasant in their society, but not properly pedigreed enough to become part of the ruling oligarchy, right?
..and a certain signature awaiting in La Casa Blanca.
If he wants to work here he needs to get in line for citizenship or a legal visa..I would dare suggest that there is NO medical care in Mexico to speak of.. he needs to go home and be a doctor...
I cannot stand to watch the leaders of this great country sell it out. As far as I'm concerned, Orin Hatch is just as big a jerk as Ted Kennedy. They're two peas in a pod.
Mexico is exporting their doctors here because we don't have enough to treat the millions of their illegal aliens.
The house burns and the "solution" of Congress is to throw more gasoline on it.
That might be a good place for this aspiring illegal alien doctor to begin his practice.
I saw sick kids and old folks and LOTS of high blood pressure and they can not afford doctors or meds..
I ate in the homes of these working middle class...worse than the worst slums in this country..all that Nafta money is in the pockets of the rich and the drug dealers..
You're correct. They are stories, and they are constructed to be heartrending.
There are limitless options for kids who have (by the very definition of this proposed law) a decent American education and some sense of American values. But those options don't have to include living in America or the usurping of American law.
I agree with you that they have options in Mexico or Poland or wherever their home countries happen to be.
And if they can find a way to get into American legally, and that's what they want to do, I'm sure they can find a way to do it.
Heck, if I decided that I wanted to live in Australia, I'd go about the business of making myself suitable for Australian emigration. I wouldn't blast the Australian government and newspapers with letters about changing their laws.
Least convincing of all is the sobbing or Orin Hatch.
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