Thread: MN-Why immigration reform is needed now

Why immigration reform is needed now

Albert Lea Tribune
Published Thursday, July 23, 2009
By Lenore Fries

The United States is the third-largest country in the world both in population and land mass.

China and India each have four times as many people as we do. Both Russia and Canada have a lot more uninhabitable frozen tundra than we do. So we are not going to run out of space in this country any time soon.

The United Nations estimates approximately 3 million U.S. citizens permanently move to other countries every year.

Most are retirees moving to Latin America, but some are younger people going to Europe and Latin America to start a business where they see more opportunity and less regulation.

The U.N. also reports that there will be many more illegal immigrants here and in other countries around the world in the future because of war and conflict, hunger and failed governments in their homeland.

Congress is already working on immigration reform.

They want to secure our borders, deport those who commit felonies, fine those who come here illegally, keep families together, and then create a path to citizenship for them.

Business leaders want them to stay because they have an excellent work ethic.

With our aging baby boomer population retiring over the next 20 to 30 years, we need all the workers we can get to keep our economy going.

Anti-immigration sentiment is fueled by so much misinformation, and messages of hate are not welcome in America.

Coming into the U.S. illegally is not a violation of civil or criminal law, it is a violation of immigration law.

Some have come here without having their documents reviewed; many more came here on a visa and never left again after their visa expired.

Someone said California spends $8 billion a year on illegal immigrants. However, those same illegal immigrants pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the California economy each year in goods and services just going about their daily lives.

Like anyone else who does not have health insurance, they either pay for health care out of pocket or do without.

Those with phony ID and Social Security numbers will pay into the Social Security system but are not eligible to receive any benefits from that system.

For those God-fearing people who read the Bible, Matthew 25 tells of the punishment to expect for those who do not welcome the stranger or alien among us.

Finally, it’s not just about us and what we want. It’s about our grandchildren, the future of our country and the world. And freedom and justice for all.

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Finally, it’s not just about us and what we want. It’s about our grandchildren, the future of our country and the world

Exactly !!!

This article is full of misinformation.

Nonsense, illegals cost us 383.3 billion dollars to accommodate health care, incarceration and education in 2008. Meanwhile our people are losing their jobs and homes and they are being forced to pay for illegals?

It does not matter if illegals only violated iimmigration law (which is not the case) they have no right to violate any of our laws. We are importing poverty, disease and crime. Take a demographic look at areas with large illegals populations and this will bear out the validity of my comment.

About the bible, the bible teaches us to love our neighbors but not to aid and abed them in their sins. No where in the bible does it teach us to support those who steal, lie and cheat, which is what the illegals from the onset of being on our soil illegally.

I'm surprised this would generate any debate at all in a liberal state such as Minnesota. Of course most of the comments on the source article blame any debate on RACISTS!

Business leaders want them to stay because they have an excellent work ethic.

An excellent work ethic is a euphemism for they are cheaper than American citizens and a boom to our bottom line! That's why they love to hire illegals!

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Business leaders want them to stay because they have an excellent work ethic.

An excellent work ethic is a euphemism for they are cheaper than American citizens and a boom to our bottom line! That's why they love to hire illegals!

There are also many U.S. Citizens who have the training and experience for the “H-1Bâ€

Your exactly right Iccat! In the case of the H-1Bâ€

Didn't I put this up before?

Anyway I just responded to a knucklehead in the comment section that equates alien with beings from another planet. I had to LOL because the user name is thinking.



Posted by ratbstard (anonymous) on July 28, 2009 at 9:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Lets be perfectly clear and start THINKING.

il·le·gal

ADJECTIVE:

1. Prohibited by law.

2. Prohibited by official rules: an illegal pass in football.

3. Unacceptable to or not performable by a computer: an illegal operation.

NOUN:

An illegal immigrant.

a·li·en (l-n, lyn) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

1. Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign: alien residents.

2. Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange. See Synonyms at foreign.

3.Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature: emotions alien to her temperament.

NOUN:

1. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen .

2. A person from another and very different family, people, or place.

3. A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.

4. A creature from outer space: a story about an invasion of aliens.

5. Ecology An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.

Illegal Alien (sometimes called undocumented alien) A foreigner who has entered a country without inspection or without proper documents, or who has violated the terms of legal admission to the country, for example, by overstaying the duration of a tourist or student visa.