Comments on: Real Talk On Immigration http://www.bloggernews.net/16817 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:10:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: K. W. Foster http://www.bloggernews.net/16817#comment-25963 K. W. Foster Thu, 17 May 2007 23:28:43 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16817#comment-25963 The Congress and the President have ignored the average american citizen and will continue to ignore them on the illegal immigration issue. This issue should be decided by the people in a national referendum in the fall. The "new" legislation is just a retread of the 1986 law that was going to "settle" the issue by giving amnesty to 2-3 million illegal aliens. Now the Congress and the President are hell bent on giving amnesty to 15-20 million illegal aliens. The Congress and the President have ignored the average american citizen and will continue to ignore them on the illegal immigration issue. This issue should be decided by the people in a national referendum in the fall. The “new” legislation is just a retread of the 1986 law that was going to “settle” the issue by giving amnesty to 2-3 million illegal aliens. Now the Congress and the President are hell bent on giving amnesty to 15-20 million illegal aliens.

]]> By: Angel http://www.bloggernews.net/16817#comment-25562 Angel Thu, 17 May 2007 07:40:15 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16817#comment-25562 'Immigration should be limited to only that which is necessary and desireable to improve the American quality of life.' Based on the environmental degradation caused by U.S. overpopulation, the ideal number would be zero. However, it would be a big improvement just to get down at all. Opinion polls consistently show that the % of Americans who favor INCREASED levels of immigrants is low single digits. Then why do all the 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' proposals call for huge INCREASES? Just like last year, they won't talk about that but will again attempt to spit on popular sovereignty. ‘Immigration should be limited to only that which is necessary and desireable to improve the American quality of life.’

Based on the environmental degradation caused by U.S. overpopulation, the ideal number would be zero. However, it would be a big improvement just to get down at all. Opinion polls consistently show that the % of Americans who favor INCREASED levels of immigrants is low single digits. Then why do all the ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’ proposals call for huge INCREASES? Just like last year, they won’t talk about that but will again attempt to spit on popular sovereignty.

]]> By: Ed Weirdness http://www.bloggernews.net/16817#comment-25338 Ed Weirdness Wed, 16 May 2007 20:57:08 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16817#comment-25338 One thing I'm certain of is that anyone who feels we need to "deport" 15 + million illegals is delusional. Primarily, attrition through enforcement (i.e. end the jobs and benefits magnet, sanction employers, make it hard to work or find a place to live, etc...) will address much of the existing illegal population, and it would do so in an orderly fashion (they aren't going to start rounding millions up over night, but they should state a date certain for when enforcement will kick in). As attrition begins to take it's toll, increased competition for legal workers will increase wages and benefits, and American workers will return to jobs they'd abandoned to low wages and poor working conditions. Also increased throughput of legal immigration applicants being granted visa's will address any possible (I would suggest "mythical") worker shortage that might occur. Not requiring illegals to leave, allowing them to keep their jobs and continue residing and benefitting at tax payer expense, basically gives them what they broke our laws to achieve. They should not be allowed to keep their ill-gotten gains. How would granting amnesty and creating a massive "guest worker program" (particularly when there's never been any similar attempt put American Citizens to work) be considered a deterrent to future "illegal immigration"? This was tried and dismally failed in the 1986 Legislation. Why do we keep changing our laws and policies to accomodate foreign nationals, rather than just suck it up and enforce our existing laws? Poverty has never been justification for breaking our laws, otherwise, our jails would be empty and their would indeed be no shortage of low skilled workers available for the jobs that some say American's "won't do". No one has any quarrel with legal immigration, except that there are far too many allowed. Immigration should be limited to only that which is necessary and desireable to improve the American quality of life. Virtually every industrialized nation is assessing and implementing immigration reforms to eliminate illegal immigration and curtail legal immigration to that which is demonstrably necessary, prudent and can be effectively and readily assimilated. It's insanity for America to do anything less! England (now that Bush's partner is stepping down) has rethought it's immigration policies, and I suspect that now that Sarkozy is President, we will see something similar coming from France. As each European nation tightens it's policies, more and more immigrants will focus on our poorly secured borders, and the jobs and benefits magnet will doubtless draw them to our teeming, overcrowded shores and borders! One thing I’m certain of is that anyone who feels we need to “deport” 15 + million illegals is delusional. Primarily, attrition through enforcement (i.e. end the jobs and benefits magnet, sanction employers, make it hard to work or find a place to live, etc…) will address much of the existing illegal population, and it would do so in an orderly fashion (they aren’t going to start rounding millions up over night, but they should state a date certain for when enforcement will kick in). As attrition begins to take it’s toll, increased competition for legal workers will increase wages and benefits, and American workers will return to jobs they’d abandoned to low wages and poor working conditions. Also increased throughput of legal immigration applicants being granted visa’s will address any possible (I would suggest “mythical”) worker shortage that might occur. Not requiring illegals to leave, allowing them to keep their jobs and continue residing and benefitting at tax payer expense, basically gives them what they broke our laws to achieve. They should not be allowed to keep their ill-gotten gains. How would granting amnesty and creating a massive “guest worker program” (particularly when there’s never been any similar attempt put American Citizens to work) be considered a deterrent to future “illegal immigration”? This was tried and dismally failed in the 1986 Legislation. Why do we keep changing our laws and policies to accomodate foreign nationals, rather than just suck it up and enforce our existing laws? Poverty has never been justification for breaking our laws, otherwise, our jails would be empty and their would indeed be no shortage of low skilled workers available for the jobs that some say American’s “won’t do”. No one has any quarrel with legal immigration, except that there are far too many allowed. Immigration should be limited to only that which is necessary and desireable to improve the American quality of life. Virtually every industrialized nation is assessing and implementing immigration reforms to eliminate illegal immigration and curtail legal immigration to that which is demonstrably necessary, prudent and can be effectively and readily assimilated. It’s insanity for America to do anything less! England (now that Bush’s partner is stepping down) has rethought it’s immigration policies, and I suspect that now that Sarkozy is President, we will see something similar coming from France. As each European nation tightens it’s policies, more and more immigrants will focus on our poorly secured borders, and the jobs and benefits magnet will doubtless draw them to our teeming, overcrowded shores and borders!

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