Thread: Tolerating illegal immigration is discriminatory

Article in SF Chronicle
Tolerating illegal immigration is
discriminatory.

End immigration discrimination
James P. Driscoll
Thursday, June 28, 2007

U.S. immigration practices are biased. We maintain a double standard that gives immigrants who enter illegally better opportunities than those who obey our laws.

Legal immigration requires complex bureaucratic procedures and long waits, with no guarantee of success at the end. Illegal immigration merely involves crossing the porous U.S. border without getting caught.

We impose tight security on all who enter through our airports. Security along U.S. land borders, however, remains notoriously lax. Mexicans and Central Americans can readily slip across our southern border and millions have. But for most Asians and Africans, the only practical option is legal entry by air. Lax land enforcement opens broad immigration channels for Latin Americans that are inaccessible to Asians and Africans.

Asians and Africans have a more urgent need to immigrate because of noneconomic pressures than Latin Americans, whose homelands are comparatively wealthier, freer and less populated. For example, 5 million Burmese have fled their country’s oppressive regime to live in abject poverty as despised aliens in neighboring countries such as Thailand. Many speak English and would like to immigrate here, but biased U.S. immigration policy practices do not give them a fair chance. The same story holds for tens of millions of other Asians and Africans facing political, religious and ethnic persecution. We admit few of them as legal immigrants; instead, we leave our back door ajar for multitudes of illegal immigrants seeking not freedom but only higher wages.

The U.S. record of discrimination against Asian and African immigrants is long and shameful. In the 19th century, Chinese were brought in to build our railroads and then shot and buried in mass graves. For decades the Chinese Exclusion and the National Origins acts deemed Asian immigrants “racially undesirableâ€

what's discriminatory, is not hiring or firing Americans because they don't speak spanish. this is the United States WE SPEAK ENGLISH!!!

It's also discrimination to charge others with violations and crimes that illegals commit every single day of the week and get away with.

Yes there is a lot of discrimination in FAVOR of the illegals. Maybe we need to get a list together and get the ACLU (?) LOL to help us with this gross discrimination.

Actually a class action lawsuit of American citizens against our government may be a good step to put a stop to this discrimination...

Originally Posted by azwreath

It's also discrimination to charge others with violations and crimes that illegals commit every single day of the week and get away with.

Yep....you can BET that as an American Citizen, if I stole somebody's social security number and used it to get a job, I'd be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!

Let an American try driving a car without license or insurance. Maybe we can provide free air service to non-Mexican illegal aliens just to be extra fair to all potential lawbreakers...This was a good one.