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ETWolverine |
01/16/04 |
Hello everyone.
I'm intersted in hearing your opinions on Bush's plan to give citizenship to 'undocumented' immigrants who are otherwise law-abiding, productive members of society? What do you think?
Here's my opinion, for what it's worth:
I think he's dead wrong on this issue. I believe that Bush's plan rewards illegal behavior and denigrates all those naturalized citizens who obeyed the rules. I think that the security risks associated with his plan are high. What it says is that if an illegal immigrant can manage to hide for long enough in this country, get and hold a job under false pretenses and with false application information, and not get arrested, he can become a citizen. I am against the plan.
On the other hand, I want to point out 2 facts.
1) This is not a case of Bush playing up to a particular constituancy in an election year. Bush has held this beliefe since his early days as Governor of Texas. This is not a policy switch for him. I may not agree with it, but Bush has been consistant in his policies and political beliefs.
2) While I think it's a bad policy, I believe that it is a BRILLIANT political move. It steals a plank right out from under the platforms of several of the Democratic candidates, including Dean, who has said that he believes in 'earned citizenship' for illegal immigrants. And the Democrats can hardly disagree with this plan, since they have been agitating for just such a plan for years now. It gives Bush another hook for the moderate Demacrats, a constituency the Democratic party seems to be losing.
Elliot |
Clarification/Follow-up by bal317 on 01/17/04 5:21 pm:
Hello: I know people work hard, but, here where I live, we see both sides of the coin.
We see Hispanic's that lay prey for white women,(usually heavy set). Then they get these women to marry them so they can stay in our town. We also see, many Hispanics that work right along with US Citizens, and the factory Co.'s, will make the non-speaking Spanish people, take courses each and everyday, so they can communicate with the Hispanics. Why isn't it, the Hispanic's have to attend classes and learn English in order to get and keep their jobs?
Yes, there are so many of them, but that is what we know and my point is, Who's Country Is This, and What is This Countries Mother Tongue(English). So, when we go to the grocery stores you will see hanging Spanish information, now because it is not translated in English we don't know what that says, isn't this discrimination to us?
And I know for a fact, several on going business's do require you to be bi-lingual, why?
My feelings, you don't break the Law or go against people illegally and get rewarded.
Also, let's get our own Citizens in working order, reform how we handle weak programs offered to many now, and not open our Country up to those who won't begin their visit on a legal note, it could and more than likely blow up in many faces.
bal317
Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 01/19/04 10:28 am:
“We should never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was “legal”, and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal”.
MLK, in a letter from a Birmingham jail, 1963
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