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Originally Posted by Roberta, Instigator of Lameness
all borders should be open.
people have free will. theycan live where they want. it is called freedom.
building walls is fascist. nazi germany, stalinist russia, etc.
USA is a fascist country now.
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where's your homecoming queen, daydream believer?
this is what I wrote at the top of my post:
I'm not against immigration. Only a fool would be. I acknowledge & fervently & firmly believe that immigration, i.e. the melting pot, is what helped make this country great. My mother came to America from Italy and my father from Ireland only in the last century. But, it should be done legally. The bureaucracy for gaining legal citizenship should be streamlined & made altogether more accessible for those that would like to call America home, but in this post 9/11 day & age, that's gonna be a tough nut to crack.
& here is another part again, in case you were too lame to read it all:
Turning our heads the other way at illegal immigration at these levels only increases societal problems. The easiest to discuss is the cut & dried case of labor & employment issues. Illegal immigrants contribute to a culture of indentured servitude & do a disservice to themselves & their own potential by not becoming legal American citizens first. By being illegal aliens, they minimize their abilty to achieve prosperity by lawful means & they subjugate themselves to any number of employer labor abuses. The most obvious of which is that they cannot expect to be guaranteed regular hours, overtime pay or a minimum wage.
None of this should be too tough to figure out if one actually cares about the people at the heart of this issue instead of just waxing together in unison being all "peace & love & understanding, dude" which basically amounts to complete & utter mental masturbation (Rob, !@#$%!, Krastian, nature scene, etc.); I fail to see how it accomplishes or solves anything or serves to even further a real discussion. Illegal immigrants cannot vote. They have no incentive or even legal right to be part of the political process. I believe I've just illustrated yet another way that being illegal is not only a disservice to the illegal alien, but also to society as a whole.