Thread: Smithfield Herald endorses illegals going to college in NC

http://www.smithfieldherald.com/opinion/story/6292.html

We have seen no evidence that immigration issues matter to people who actually vote. If they did, presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo would be polling at better than 2 percent among GOP voters.

Still, this country has some immigration problems, and it seems to us that a little common sense would go a long way toward solving them.

Common sense, for example, says that America needs to seal its borders against people who would enter here illegally. We don’t know that this country has the inclination or the ability to round up all illegal aliens and send them home. But if it did so tomorrow, the exercise would be futile because an equal number of illegals would cross our now-porous borders to replace those sent home.

Common sense says also that America needs to increase the number of work visas it grants every year. Whether the jobs are high skill or low skill, America isn’t producing enough workers to fill them, businesspeople say. Put another way, does it make common sense for people to have to enter this country illegally to get legal jobs that industries need to fill?

As for whether North Carolina community colleges should admit illegal immigrants, common sense says they should — that an educated workforce is better than an ignorant one. In any event, it will take time to adequately secure this country’s borders and then to deport illegals or put them on some path to citizenship. In the meantime, does it make sense to deny an education to people who want one and are willing to pay for it?

Finally, this country’s immigration debate could use some compassion too. Which is to say that we couldn’t put an illegal mom on a bus and watch her wave goodbye to her legal children and husband. And we’re not sure we want to meet anyone who could.

What BS Propaganda by another complete idiot!!

Don't use Tancredo for a scapegoat, Toms only problem is he has trouble speaking in public and while it does not bother me some people it does, He has accomplished his goal he set out to do and that is to get illegal immigration out in the open.

When you have thousands of people threw 0ut the country standing around on corners looking for day work you do not need to let more poeple in this country on visa's nor do you need a guest worker program, to take Americans jobs and drive down wages further.

Common sense says don't educate people who are not aloud to work in this country and especially do not educate them on my money.

The person who wrote this should look for another line of work because he/she is lacking the common sense he/she is spouting off about.

Usually, Scott Bolejack writes the editorials at The Smithfield Herald (or as I call it, The Smithfield Heresy)

Never mind where Tancredo is polling. The best evidence of our power is Huckabee's sudden conversion.


Why didn't the Herald have any compassion for their own North Carolinian neighbors when the illegals were coming in.