Category: News and Views
So this Monday in most major cities in the US there are expected to be huge immigration rallies taking place. In LA the figures are to be over 2 million people, in my city of Chicago they are expected to be between 300,000-500,000. What does everybody think about the immigration issue and what should be done? Is anybody going to be joining the rallies?
We should do random green card checks during the rallies! If they don't have one, they go home that very day, unless they can prove they have a legal right to be here. I'm for imigration, but not the illegal type.
Isn't there something like 12 million illegal imigrants in the USA? I don't know what the boundaries are for them been illegals, but knowing the way the US is, I'm sure that all the left-wing Do Gooders will be backing them up. The US is partly to blame for the amount of illegal imigrants in its country. Afterall, if over a number of years, a huge barbed wire fence was built along its land borders, it would be more difficult for illegal imigrants to get there.
Well, the leftists mostly want them out, and are mad at Bush, who just turns a blind eye toward it.
So which group of politicians wants them in and thinks they should be given more rights? I thought that was a very liberal approach.
The left wants to allow them to stay, even to become citizens, most on the right are willing to have them stay but want to create some kind of rules. The extremists are labeling them as criminals and wants to search them out and send them back. I am all for letting them stay, many of them are extremely hard workers who are just trying to make a living, the problem is that if you allow the current ones to stay, you're kind of saying that coming in illegally is okay. I think the Hispanic community isn't doing a good enough job reaching out to other immigrant communities and also winning over average americans. In any case, I think May 1st is going to change a lot of things, I don't think people realize how important these people are to our economy, though they often engage in hard, menial labor jobs. We need people to do these jobs and no American is willing to do them, too many in our society are too soft.
Well then, it's time for our own to get back to working jobs like that, and for employers to pay at least minimum wage for the work. It's just as wrong for the illegals to get paid slave wages. Move 'm on back, hire americans, and then the upper class can humble themselves, and stop living so high on the hog!
Nope, I don't believe it, First of all this illegal problem has been going on for a while but not for 200 years. Americans will do those jobs if nobody else is around to do them. I remember when naborhood kids used to mow yards for the summer now you pay a Mexican 2 do it for 5 bucks.
Trust me if there are no illegals to do the low end jobs and some of them do pay pretty good somebody will or the wages for that job will go up.. If you want to see the problem hurt drastic start fining the employers who hier illegals say 10000 a head. I am all for building a wall like the one there talking about it is 2 fences with a road in the middle with hourly patrols and cameras. Stick some land mines in there if you want as well.
both partys are in bed with Mexico, the repubs are a bunch of cowards along with the dems and they should all be marched out of office over this ass kissing.
oh and I think May first will go over about as well as the million man march. but it does sound like a good place for the emagration to hang out!
Well, I don't know much about the actual rallies, and I might go to one, as there'll likely be one here in San Antonio. I know though that there's also encouragement to not buy anything which would also include that there will be strikes, so I know people in my neightborhood (including me) are going to not buy anything that day. I somewhat agree with the strikes because a lot of workers are Mexicans or of Mexican descent, and I think they're doing it because of the ones that do and want to work but don't have the documents they need for whatever reason. I think the ones who honestly do work and want to work should be able to get some kind of temperary pass, (at least), but they should also be made to pay some kind of taxes like anyone else living here. The ones involved in drugs and gangs and who just want to get a free living here should be the ones stopped from coming here. And then we could build a fence, but I think I've heard that the ones involved in drugs especially have underground routes leading to the United States.? Also, I'm imagining a fence with all this protection separating Mexico and the United States; it just seems messed up because some legal Mexicans or Americans have relatives in Mexico, and they go back and forth to visit each other, and then as mentioned, it makes it seem like all the immigrants are bad people that need to be locked out when there are some that are willing to work to have a better life than the one they had at home. I don't know if I'm understanding the whole issue here, but that's my opinion from what I do understand of it.
There is absolutely, positively no way that America will ever stop illegal immigrants from entering the country. There can be measures taken to make it harder to get in or to deter people from coming, but those that really want to, especially those that want to come in and engage in illegal acts, will find a way in. The country is too big to have someone monitoring every point along the borders. A temporary pass plan will work in legally bringing in those who aren't here, but the biggest issue is what to do with all the illegals who are already here.
I disagree with Yogi, we cannot fault the largely Hispanic group of immigrants who can no longer come legally and so want to do it the only way they can, illegally. Up to the early 1920s, the US was open to immigrants from around the world, but that slowly started to change. After WWII and the huge increase in immigrants, the policy got even harsher and since the 1960s and especially since the 1990s, its become almost impossible to enter this country legally. The jobs that these people are doing are jobs nobody is willing to do, you can't take measures like raising the wages to attract Americans because that would cause huge price increases and destroy large swaths of the US economy.
There really doesn't need to be any major change in policy, the current system works well, its just that both sides have moved to extremes and are looking for some kind of "solution" that might turn out to be worse than the current system.