What part of:
Give me your tired, your poor...do you not understand?
I understand all of it just fine, I think. I'm second generation, myself. Grandparents came here from Eastern Europe in steerage.
There was a time, certainly into the early 1900's when my family came, when we wanted all the able bodies we could get. That is no longer the case. We have more people wanting in than we want and, like other civilized countries, we have created criteria (not the best ones IMO but legally binding nonetheless) to prioritize their entry. Keep 'em coming, I say. But I want to embrace the ones who fit the criteria and follow the rules, not reward the ones who trash them.
Also how can you be so 'liberal' about everything else and a reactionary on immigration?
LOL. It never occurred to me that my failure to embrace law breaking was reactionary. Living one's life within the law is part of the social contract, part of good citizenship, a measure of character, or so I thought, not a left or right notion. I may not be part of the "values" crowd, but I definitely disfavor a system where cheaters are rewarded.
As a systems person, I also disfavor chaos, particularly when it produces so many problems. It is foolish to take in more people than we can utilize and assimilate, particularly when we don't know who or where or what they are.
we should create a legal guest worker policy and permit these folks to apply for eventual citizenship. With that in place we can erect walls or whatever and really clamp down on non-economic illegals
I'm confused by your categorizations. You have your "legal guest workers," who are cool. And you have your "non-economic illegals," who are not. Your language suggests that there would then be a category of "economic illegals." If so, who would they be? People from Mexico etc. who are still crossing the border illegally to work rather than joining the guest worker program? If so, what would you propose doing about them? Or did you have in mind those looking for asylum? |
