There's a serious difference between an open border and illegal immigration.
If your problem with immigrants is that they aren't paying taxes, and taking our "handouts", here's how an open border stops that: you step into the US with the intention of staying, you get a green card and a tax number (SSN, although that particular number has implications of citizenship, so whatever). If you're worried about terrorists, we can throw in an Interpol check while they cool their heels. Except, well, the 9/11 folks had clean records, so I don't know what you want to do about catching them... but, we can definitely do due dilligence (sp).
An open border isn't a complete lack of processing for new immigrants, it is simply an abolishment of quotas. It's also NOT granting automatic citizenship to everybody who walks over the border... the naturalization process still applies.
Furthermore, I personally believe that the government has a responsibility to help those who have need in our society (well, my views are more complex than that, but that's neither here nor there). I would however like to see this country adopt a system more similar to European countries, in which only citizens are granted welfare, unemployment, etc.
Refusing somebody medical care based on the fact that they're "not from 'round these parts" is xenophobic, racist, and inhumane. I gladly pay state taxes so that ER visits are subsidized, and I applaud every time block grants are given to free/cheap clinics.
If you're worried about them "taking our jobs", then you need to wake up and look around for a minute. The rest of the world is already taking our jobs. What's more, they're doing it in the worst way possible: by staying in their own countries and doing our work. Overseas-outsourced factories, skilled labor, and design teams are destroying work for Americans, and America's economy, FAR more than a few thousand migrant fruit-pickers ever could.
If your problem with immigrants is that they aren't paying taxes, and taking our "handouts", here's how an open border stops that: you step into the US with the intention of staying, you get a green card and a tax number (SSN, although that particular number has implications of citizenship, so whatever). If you're worried about terrorists, we can throw in an Interpol check while they cool their heels. Except, well, the 9/11 folks had clean records, so I don't know what you want to do about catching them... but, we can definitely do due dilligence (sp).
An open border isn't a complete lack of processing for new immigrants, it is simply an abolishment of quotas. It's also NOT granting automatic citizenship to everybody who walks over the border... the naturalization process still applies.
Furthermore, I personally believe that the government has a responsibility to help those who have need in our society (well, my views are more complex than that, but that's neither here nor there). I would however like to see this country adopt a system more similar to European countries, in which only citizens are granted welfare, unemployment, etc.
Refusing somebody medical care based on the fact that they're "not from 'round these parts" is xenophobic, racist, and inhumane. I gladly pay state taxes so that ER visits are subsidized, and I applaud every time block grants are given to free/cheap clinics.
If you're worried about them "taking our jobs", then you need to wake up and look around for a minute. The rest of the world is already taking our jobs. What's more, they're doing it in the worst way possible: by staying in their own countries and doing our work. Overseas-outsourced factories, skilled labor, and design teams are destroying work for Americans, and America's economy, FAR more than a few thousand migrant fruit-pickers ever could.
) or American. We are born where God puts us, and under His conditions. That is why we should keep our government responsible for obeying the ENTIRE US Constitution; not just the 2nd Ammendment, parts of the 1st Amendment and the rest of the juicy parts that appeal to us. We need to close our borders. Let those who come in the legal way come here and thrive. Let the sneak-ins die in the desert. Speaking of which, if they know that hundreds of them die in the desert trying to get here, yet they bring their children along across the same deadly desert, isn't that in itself showing the selfishness of the adults? Yesterday Vicente Fox signed a law allowing out of country "expatriates" to vote in Mexican elections, as long as they were registered to vote in Mexico. First off, if they left Mexico, why should they WANT to vote there, when they don't even want to live there? 2nd, the first complaints broadcast about this was that many illegals in America are not satisfied with that, since they were not registered to vote when they left Mexico, and now it will be too hard to go back, register to vote and then sneak back over here. Read the news stories yourself. Now, if this sort of letter leads you to close this thread in the name of censorship, so be it. Rationalize it any way you want to. Just don't expect everybody in here to pay you homage and agree with your every word. TRY to understand others' positions. To kneejerk respond and close the thread, or attempt to belittle other viewpoints shows that you are afraid of people who care enough to enlighten others. Do I expect everyone to jump to my support? No, I don't. However, this is my message. Accept it, or don't. However, cuando es necesario para hablar espanol para directar comercio en los Estados Unidos de America, asi es posiblemente puedes ver de cual estoy hablando. Thank you for opening up this thread again. I believe people should be able to speak their minds on either side of a subject without reprisal. Bilateral opinionation is actually a very good thing.
Do not take may word for it; read it for yourself.
