Thread: Enforcement broken, not immigration laws

Enforcement broken, not immigration laws
July 10, 2009

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Lately the Iranian situation and the U.S. and global economy have distracted people from another crisis going on in our own country: the illegal-alien situation. I do not use the term illegal immigrants because the term immigrant has a legal connotation, and they are not.

People were aware of the crisis and were demanding something be done, and it was - with raids and arrests and a crackdown on businesses hiring the illegals. Most people were not in favor of just allowing illegals to stay and be legalized.


If I hear one more time the term used by Thomas Rendon of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement that we have a "failed immigration system," I think I'm going to be sick.

Our immigration system is not broken. Our immigration enforcement and legal system that are not enforcing our immigrations laws are broken. The rules for legal immigration, and the numbers to be allowed, are set. It allows immigrants with the proper papers to come to work, be educated and be naturalized.

The ones who do not follow those rules are criminals and are breaking our laws every minute they're here. Amnesty is not the answer, unless it's for everyone who breaks the law.

- Butch Kroeger, Toledo

www.desmoinesregister.com

Good find, Jean! And from the comments, it seems over 90 percent agree with Butch, while a few are playing the sympathy for the rest of humanity card and a little racism thrown in.

Great stuff Jean

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[b]Our immigration enforcement and legal system that are not enforcing our immigrations laws are broken.

Pardon me, but Baloney! Let's not pull any punches here...the problem is that it's the spineless and self serving politicians that lack the WILL and POLITICAL COURAGE to enforce our current immigration laws that is at the heart of the matter. All the rhetoric about needing to change our broken immigration system is just another handy sleight of hand by these cowards trying to slip and slide their way past any responsibility. Politics at it's most despicable! I wonder how much Teflon the congressional budget office has budgeted this year?

Originally Posted by jean

Enforcement broken, not immigration laws
July 10, 2009

Read Comments(19)
Lately the Iranian situation and the U.S. and global economy have distracted people from another crisis going on in our own country: the illegal-alien situation. I do not use the term illegal immigrants because the term immigrant has a legal connotation, and they are not.

People were aware of the crisis and were demanding something be done, and it was - with raids and arrests and a crackdown on businesses hiring the illegals. Most people were not in favor of just allowing illegals to stay and be legalized.


If I hear one more time the term used by Thomas Rendon of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement that we have a "failed immigration system," I think I'm going to be sick.

Our immigration system is not broken. Our immigration enforcement and legal system that are not enforcing our immigrations laws are broken. The rules for legal immigration, and the numbers to be allowed, are set. It allows immigrants with the proper papers to come to work, be educated and be naturalized.

The ones who do not follow those rules are criminals and are breaking our laws every minute they're here. Amnesty is not the answer, unless it's for everyone who breaks the law.

- Butch Kroeger, Toledo

www.desmoinesregister.com

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