Thread: Immigration from all angles

Today's Hot Topic: Immigration From All Angles

The NYT offers a five-article package on U.S. immigration policy today, including columns written by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Richard Clarke, the former head of counterterrorism at the National Security Council.
Janet Napolitano, a "border state governor with a close-up view of how immigration policy works on the ground," criticizes the Bush administration's move to cut back the number of National Guard members patrolling the U.S.-Mexico boarder. "Illegal immigration is a problem not yet solved, and the need for Border Patrol agents has not diminished," she writes ...
Jorge Castaneda, Mexico's former foreign minister, outlines the three Mexican objections to the Senate's immigration reform bill: unduly harsh enforcement, steep fines and fees and the reduced number of guest-worker slots ...
Dani Rodrik explains why creating a guest-worker program is the United States's best chance of improving the lives of the world's poor ...
Richard Clarke urges lawmakers to not forget the "real security concern" posed by America's porous boarders: "Since 9/11, it has been far more difficult to get a visa to enter the United States if you are a citizen of a country considered a terrorism concern. But it is not difficult for a Pakistani, for example, to enter Mexico or another Central American country from which he can get to our border relatively easily, cross it and blend in" ...
Michael Lind encourages lawmakers to speed up the naturalization process in an effort to shrink the number of non-citizens living and working in America.

This bill is the "tell all" of this administration/governments plan for the NAU. The issue of amnesty is not limited to the shallow fact of legalizing immigrants who are here now. Granting Amnesty allows the progression of open borders/National ID/North American Union.

If this gets passed, The United States of America will never be the same and it most definately will not be United.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/editoria ... ion_f.html

Please go to the article and use the links within the story................

Guest worker program that improves the lives of the world's poor?

Is that what we have become? A dumping station for all of the uneducated, low-skilled workers in the world?

Uh, no . . . I don't think so.

Originally Posted by tinybobidaho

Guest worker program that improves the lives of the world's poor?

Is that what we have become? A dumping station for all of the uneducated, low-skilled workers in the world?

Uh, no . . . I don't think so.

Since you don't want to let billions of poor foreigners come here in order to "have a better life" (at your expense), you are a nativisist racist. At least according to all the rich who will get even richer off this plan and hate Americans who don't want to finance it.

I like the point that Ann Coulter made in one of her articles.

In our history's past, when immigrants came to the U.S., there were no "welfare" benefits for them to take advantage of. So as a new immigrant, you had to assimilate and make something of yourself in the "pursuit of happiness". Those immigrants who could not make it or were too lazy or who refused to assimilate...they all went back home! So in the end...America got the "cream of the crop" of immigrants who stayed and helped to make this country strong and great!

But of course...this makes too much sense for our leaders to comprehend it!!