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9月4日 The Great Immigration DebateI am an opponent of illegal immigration...Not for the seemingly discriminatory, possibly racist exclusionary motives of the Bush Administration but for several other reasons. You may or may not agree with them;
1. No Society can be free without securing it sovereign territories and borders. The United States possesses the longest unrestricted border in the world in which people have almost virtually unlimited, unfettered access to this country.
2. Although Illegals provide a large source of skilled and unskilled workforce, they also cause an unanticipated and expensive drain on social service resources of which taxpayers pay the bill. Illegals do not pay taxes and social services particularly medical care are expensive.
3. Undocumented, illegal entry into this country demeans and disenfranchises the process by which people have taken to legally enter this country and obtain citizenship. It is an expensive, intrusive and lengthy process.
Illegal immigrants are economic refugees much like the Irish who entered the country at the turn of the 20th century during the Irish potato famine, except the Irish came to this country through legal means. They seek a better way of life, essentially the American Dream. They are not criminals and should not be criminalized as the Bush adminstration has suggested. Upon detection they should be humanely returned to their country of origin. If we wish to open our arms and accept more immigrants then we should push for legal immigration reform. It can also be argued that how can we accept more people in this country when we've done nothing to care for the legions of impoverished, undereducated people already here? Unemployment and underemployment are still major problems and there is still no national health care plan. Poverty remains the single biggest factor in high crime, drug abuse and child abuse rates.
Federal estimates have illegals in this country numbering somehwhere around 11 million people. How do they know? From where do they get these statistics? Illegals can't be counted (Almost by definition). The Feds state that it would be impractical and damn well near impossible to send all these people back to their countries of origin. I disagree. It is a known fact that the majority of these illegals are from Mexico. Most are law abiding, hard working people. The Mexican governement has stated that it considers the propsect of the US placing a standing army at its border an act of agression. Mexican president Vincente Fox has stated that he opposes the US putting up any fence or deterrent to Mexican illegals (On OUR OWN side of the border!). Since when does the Mexican president dictate US domestic policy??? Other Latin American countries have also oppossed the US sealing its own border. It's no secret that illegal immigration from said countries provides a "Relief Valve" allowing people who otherwise would otherwise would oppose these governments while seeking economic justice in the form of housing, food, employment and equality. Mexico is not exempt from this. In Mexico the economic rift between the rich and the very poor is as great as it can get anywhere in Latin America.
So let's seal our borders not just from terrorists but illegal immigrants and let's begin to take care of our own. America should be for Americans and those who we invite to live, work, visit and/or become Americans (legally).
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