Amnesty was given in 1984 or '85. The (then) INS expected and used the number of 650,000 - 700,000 applicants for amnesty to get approval for it.
They received over 6.5 million requests for amnesty!
Our government is talking about bypassing the laws again in another illegal 'amnesty' because the estimates are that we have 7-12 million illegals again in our country!
Is this not like allowing thieves that steal cars the free and legal title to the vehicle, if they are able to keep the car long enough and never got caught for the crime?
How can rewarding the criminal with exactly what they wanted to get THROUGH their illegal act, deter others from commiting the very same crime?
It seems to me that this would only serve to MOTIVATE others to commit crimes.
The amount of illegals that received amnesty in the early 80's was almost EXACTLY equal to unemployment rate of that time. Coincidence?
With companies sending American jobs to Mexico, how can we allow them to take what remains?
2006-06-26 18:44:45 · 7 answers · asked by athorgarak 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
so far I cannot pick a winner because you all get it and there is no answer clearly better than the others.
as for the unemployment thing not being on,
I do understand and here is my point
enemployment figures count (through unemployment statistics (mostly but not wholly)
that there are 500 people unemployed and there are no jobs to reabsorb them into the workplace
now if you have 500 illegals in that area, the connection is complete and illistrates the gravity of the problem, get rid of the illegals and you now eliminate the unemployment!
the unemployment rate is not the amount of people without jobs but the difference of those who have no job and the number of jobs available.
2006-06-29 14:13:50 · update #1
NO!!
Amnesty will only encourage future illegal immigration. THink.. If those people see that we give amnesty to illegals, then they too will think they can come here and get amnesty in the future as well. Your stealing a car example is dead on. Amnesty is no better then releasing all prisoners because they have been in there for a long time.
2006-06-27 04:54:26 · answer #1 · answered by Nep-Tunes 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The last time amnesty was issued was to garnish votes. This time, it's to collect taxes.
Will this prevent illegal immigration? No, of course not.
Unemployment and amnesty are not related. Look and see how the unemployment data is collected. It doesn't include those people.
Maybe you should start looking at what American employers are doing. If they didn't hire illegals, they would think twice about coming.
2006-06-27 05:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by scubalady01 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LEGAL Immigration = Good
ILLEGAL Immigration = Bad
Anyone who thinks Amnesty for illegal aliens (they are not even illegal immigrants, by the way) is a good idea, needs to read this three times.
2006-06-27 02:19:18 · answer #3 · answered by JoshInShermanOaks 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Amnesty will never benefit the nation. It has already been proven and so why the government would even think of doing this again is beyond me!
2006-06-27 03:16:38 · answer #4 · answered by Daisy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was on 1986,and Reagan is the one who granted the ILLEGALS amnesty!! Amnesty did NOT work THEN,and it will NOT work NOW!!! All amnesty does,is ENCOURAGE more ILLEGALS to come here!!! All illegals should be DEPORTED, not REWARDED!!!!!
2006-06-27 01:58:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the amnesty was in 1986. History proves it was a mistake. But our incompentent government is gonna give it another try!
2006-06-27 01:49:37 · answer #6 · answered by de rak 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one can explain how amnesty can benefit our country because it cant.
2006-06-27 02:08:52 · answer #7 · answered by joeandhisguitar 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋