2006-10-18 06:51:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
In this democracy we have the right to reform our laws regarding immigration.
2006-10-18 06:53:03 · answer #1 · answered by Mark 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering that 85% of the US population want the border security beefed up and the hoard from south stopped, I would say the US House is following the mandate from the people, the Senate on the other hand seems to forget who put them there to begin with and who butters their bread...
I recall a quote from a document a written a long time ago that discusses governing powers and the right of the people to reform conditions that don't meet expectations.. This power is derived at the ballot box in this "Representative Republic" people use the term Democracy and fail to recognize we ARE NOT a Democracy.. We are a REPUBLIC..
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Paragraph 2 Declaration of Independence.
2006-10-18 14:08:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we were going to have a public vote on the border tomorrow, I think the odds are high that there'd be a full 2,000 mile fence with Mexico, and foundations laid on something similar with Canada.
Here's the fun angle: Mexico wants to 'vote' itself into the United States...
2006-10-18 13:56:45 · answer #3 · answered by gokart121 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's what the majority of Americans want, and believe me it's not to have more mexicans come here. And it's not to have amnesty for them.
2006-10-18 13:58:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Means nothing
2006-10-18 14:20:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋