Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: bfdd
Craig, you're assuming the people actually deserve/belong here. They don't. They broke OUR laws by coming here illegally. They are already criminals. If they get picked up for breaking other laws the punishment for them should be deportation obviously. I don't understand how people can't understand that. Do you know how strict other countries are on illegal immigrants? A friend of mine who teaches English over seas had a friend get picked up in Korea for working and being their illegally. He was detained for damn near a month then deported. He's not even allowed back there. We need to do something about all the illegals in our country even if it's just because they lack respect of our laws in the first place.
Also, like I said in an earlier post we need to make it easier for people to immigrate here legally and we need to encourage people to immigrate here legally. While I am against illegal immigration, I can't understand why ANYONE would be against LEGAL immigration.
1. To repeat my earlier point, deportation is a separate issue, and isn't happeninng anytime soon for 20 million people, and until then, the choice is about taking the car.
2. I know of no other country in the world who has our immigration situation, for a variety of reasons. If we had few illegal immigrants, our policies might be different, too.
You cite Korea, but you need go no further to make the point you're making than Mexico, who deports Guatamalen refugees.
3. On why people oppose legal immigration, as I posted not long ago, check President Kennedy's book "A nation of immigrants".
As it notes, there is plenty of bigotry and mythology that create opposition and animosity to immigrants.
There's plenty of illogic - just as the discussion of torture constantly leads to the 'ticking bomb scenario' from its apologists, discussion of immigration constantly leads to 'we can't just open our borders and let the whole world come here' scenarios rather than discussing the actual issue.
That's about Mexican immigration, the topic here, but there are other topics, like the H1 visa quotas, that pit IT management wanting cheap labor against US IT employees.