Tuesday, April 11, 2006
immigration
This has so many pieces that I don't know my own conclusions yet so I'm just going to ask questions and read/cite others' pieces which aren't necessarily what I think but are worth reading, namely: Wide Awake Cafe's post, Charles Krauthammer's article, the Immigration Law Blog (not very recently updated but informative and useful) and Michelle Malkin's Immigration Blog to which others also contribute. As for some questions:
--Could those who say they want so badly to become American citizens state very clearly that they want to be Americans and that they care about this country? Wouldn't that would go a long way towards convincing people that it's all right? There are many who are concerned that amnesty is like handing the car keys to the guy who wants to steal the car.
--If full or even broad amnesty were granted, doesn't it say that the people who came and applied for citizenship in the slower-though-legal ways were silly saps?
--Is it practical to grant amnesty to all the currently illegal aliens?
--On the other hand, is it practical to send them all home?
--If amnesty is granted to all currently illegal aliens, what's to stop future influxes of the same magnitude?
--Isn't a wall of any effective kind nearly impossible to build (how many hundreds of miles?), not to mention keep up? How would a wall help at airports and train stations, anyway?
--And what about education? According to Time magazine, over half of all immigrant children in America don't finish high school and some huge number don't even finish elementary school. Where does that leave everyone?

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Blogger DADvocate — at 10:42 AM, April 11, 2006:
Excellent questions. I maintain we don't grant amnesty but we don't bother to send them all home. The large majority will go home eventually anyway. Most come here to work not to stay. We simply do our best to ensure they re-enter our country legally.

We don't need a wall but we do need much better enforcement. Yes, the Mexican flag waving, the Mexica Movement and such don't much look or sound like people who value the United States as a country in itself. And, yes again, amnesty of or anything like it is grossly unfair to legal immigrants.
 

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